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Campus running club benefits the body and the brain
A group runs past trees and a green colored, Gothic-style building, Penn's College Hall.

Passing College Hall, the Anennberg (Lunchtime) Running Club turns attention to featured speaker Sean Brown (far left). The club organizes two Ideas in Motion lecture series, one held while running and the other while walking.

Campus running club benefits the body and the brain

Three times a week runners gather in Annenberg Plaza to work their bodies and stretch their minds. Through regular runs and monthly running and walking lectures, the group fosters community and health while promoting intellectual exchange.

Katherine Unger Baillie

The ignorance of blackface
abstract faces rendered in bold patterns and colors

The ignorance of blackface

Historian Mia Bay discusses the history of blackface, its intent, and why it is still occurring in the 21st century.
How technology is making education more accessible
Amrou Ibrahim zooms in to a text using a CCTV tablet Amrou Ibrahim, assistive technology specialist at the Student Disabilities Services Office, uses a camera-equipped tablet to zoom in on a book.

How technology is making education more accessible

Text-to-speech technology, smart pens, and smart glasses are just some of the assistive technologies that the Office of Student Disabilities Services employ on campus to meet all students’ needs in their learning environments.
New contracts rewrite the rules of digital fine print
article illustration underscoring need to read fine print

New contracts rewrite the rules of digital fine print

In an article in the University of Chicago Law Review, Penn Law professor Dave Hoffman challenges widely held notions about the purpose and function of digital fine print.

Penn Today Staff

An old-school green deal
A rocky, shrubby landscape glows with sunlight under a partially cloudy sky.

California’s Joshua Tree National Park suffered damage during the government shutdown, but stands to benefit from a conservation package that recently passed the Senate. (Photo: National Park Service/Kurt Moses)

  • Q&A

    • An old-school green deal

    A major public lands package passed the U.S. Senate Feb. 12 with massive bipartisan support and is expected to pass the House later this month. Cary Coglianese shares insights into the bill’s contents—which entail the largest expansion of wilderness area in a decade.

    Katherine Unger Baillie

    Back to back
    Members of the women's track and field team pose with the Heps indoor championship banner.

    Back to back

    The women’s track and field team has won the Ivy League Indoor Track & Field Heptagonal Championships for the second straight season.
    The ‘off’ button that lets plants make flowers
    Scanning electron microscope image of plant parts. Main image is covered in spikes, smaller one looks smoother and less complex.

    AA 10-day-old Arabidopsis seedling displayed no defect in forming new organs (main image), unless they lacked the key genes MP, ETT, and ARF4. In that case, a small stubby plant (inset) that cannot form new organs is the result. (Image: Wagner lab)

    The ‘off’ button that lets plants make flowers

    Flowers aren’t just pretty to look at; without them, plants couldn’t reproduce. Investigating the critical process of flower formation in plants, School of Arts and Sciences biologist Doris Wagner and colleagues discovered how a key gene is shut off in order for blooms to form. “Identity is not just what you are; it’s what you aren’t,” she says.

    Katherine Unger Baillie