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Showcasing veteran voices
JD Goins sits near a window, looking out onto the beautiful fall colors on the Penn campus' trees.

James “J.D.” Goins, of Nashville, Tenn., says the lessons he learned in the U.S. Air Force have prepared him for a life of enlightenment at Penn and beyond. 

Showcasing veteran voices

After regularly searching through campus events, sophomore James “J.D.” Goins says he had a difficult time finding activities that showcased veteran voices. To change that, he is launching a series of campus conversations, bringing veterans who are now involved in business, politics, and other industries to Penn to share their insights on success.
Dry conditions may have helped a new type of plant gain a foothold on Earth
Pots on a table in a greenhouse filled with grasses in various stages of growth

Biochemical and paleoclimate modeling revealed that plants with a new photosynthetic pathway known as C4, present in several important crop species today, emerged when atmospheric carbon dioxide was still quite high, roughly 30 million years ago. Water limitations, rather than Co2, drove its initial spread, a Penn-led team found.

Dry conditions may have helped a new type of plant gain a foothold on Earth

Plants reap energy from the sun using two photosynthesis pathways, C3 and C4. A new study led by Haoran Zhou, Erol Akçay and Brent Helliker suggests that water availability drove the expansion of C4 species, which may help to explain how different plant lineages came to be distributed on the planet today.

Katherine Unger Baillie

Monitoring heritage sites with drones and remote sensors
Fort Union adobe ruins with blue sky in distance

Monitoring heritage sites with drones and remote sensors

The Center for Architectural Conservation has been observing adobe ruins for three years as a harbinger for climate change. Any damage that the changing climate will do to exposed structures, it will do it to adobe first.

Penn Today Staff

At TCPW event, female athletes urged to support one another
Panelists pose for a group shot

At TCPW event, female athletes urged to support one another

At the Trustees’ Council of Penn Women’s (TCPW) annual Women’s Athlete Panel and Reception, former Penn student-athletes offered current Quakers advice on forging career paths, supporting one another, and being fearless.

How to survive baseball’s ‘most fearsome injury’
five-step illustration of a baseball pitch

How to survive baseball’s ‘most fearsome injury’

There is one injury that can thwart both an all-star pitcher with the Chicago Cubs and a teen practicing to make the varsity team: a torn labrum.

Penn Today Staff