The Penn Glee Club, the University’s oldest performing-arts group, celebrates its 150th anniversary with a joint undergraduate-alumni concert.
Since the Glee Club was formed in 1862, the performers have been entertaining crowds locally, across the nation and around the world. The club has performed with entertainers such as Frank Sinatra and Bill Cosby and appeared on national television, singing on the “Ed Sullivan Show” and NBC’s “Today Show.”
Nanoparticle blueprints reveal path to smarter medicines
New research involving Penn Engineering shows detailed variation in lipid nanoparticle size, shape, and internal structure, and finds that such factors correlate with how well they deliver therapeutic cargo to a particular destination.
A generous gift from alumni Glenn and Amanda Fuhrman brings the work of internationally acclaimed artist Jaume Plensa to the University of Pennsylvania. The latest addition to the Penn Art Collection expands Philadelphia's public art.
A massive chunk of ice, a new laser, and new information on sea-level rise
For nearly a decade, Leigh Stearns and collaborators aimed a laser scanner system at Greenland’s Helheim Glacier. Their long-running survey reveals that Helheim’s massive calving events don’t behave the way scientists once thought, reframing how ice loss contributes to sea-level rise.
