Awards, accolades, and appointments for the Penn community
A roundup of the latest awards for members of Penn’s staff, faculty, and doctoral candidates.
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The University’s T. Gibbs Kane, Jr. W'69 Director of Athletics and Recreation, Alanna Wren, has been named Director of the Year by the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics.
The Lurie Autism Institute, a joint initiative of Penn Medicine and the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, has awarded geneticist Huda Y. Zoghbi with the inaugural recipient of the Nancy Lurie Marks Prize for Autism Research.
Novel plant-based approach to a better, cheaper GLP-1 delivery system
Research led by Penn Dental’s Henry Daniell investigates the use of a lettuce-based, plant-encapsulated delivery platform as a new oral delivery of two GLP-1 drugs previously approved by the FDA in injectable form.
No brain, no gain: Neuronal activity enhances benefits of exercise
Research led by Penn neuroscientist J. Nicholas Betley and collaborators finds that hypothalamic neurons are essential for translating physical exertion into endurance, potentially opening the door to exercise-mimicking therapies.
In honor of Valentine's Day, and as a way of fostering community in her Shakespeare in Love course, Becky Friedman took her students to the University Club for lunch one class period. They talked about the movie "Shakespeare in Love," as part of a broader conversation on how Shakespeare's works are adapted.
In Becky Friedman’s English course Shakespeare in Love, undergraduate students analyze language, genre, and adaptation in the Bard’s plays through the lens of love.
Beating the heat: Designing cooling for bodies in motion
Dorit Aviv, director of Weitzman’s Thermal Architecture Lab, studies how humans, technology, and design intersect, paving the way for the development of novel approaches to cooling people efficiently.
