Swimmer Mark Andrew wins fourth straight Ivy title in 400-yard individual medley.
Senior swimmer Mark Andrew won his fourth consecutive conference championship in the 400-yard individual medley (IM) this past weekend at Brown’s Katherine Moran Coleman Aquatics Center in Providence, Rhode Island.
Andrew set the pool record with a time of 3:41.00. It was also his new personal record and a record for the Ivy Championships.
He is only the second Ivy League swimmer to win the 400 IM four times in a row.
From Middletown, Ohio, Andrew also won an Ivy League Championship in the 200 breast, finishing with a time of 1:54.38, a new Penn record.
Not finished, he was part of the first-place 400 free relay team with seniors Thomas Dillinger and Mark Blinstrub, and sophomore Sean Lee. They set a program record time of 2:52.26.
The Quakers finished third at the Ivy Championships with 1120.5 points, behind first-place Harvard (1432.5) and second-place Princeton (1209.5). Penn swimmers and divers set 10 different program records.
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.
