Nayyir Newash-Campbell’s time of 46.14 is first in the Ivy League.
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Second-year sprinterNayyir Newash-Campbell of the men’s track and field team broke a 93-year-old school record on Saturday in the 400 meter at the Tom Jones Invitational hosted by the University of Florida.
Newash-Campbell’s time of 46.14 broke Bill Carr’s mark of 46.28, set in 1932. The Ivy League record in the 400 meter is held by Wendell Mottley of Yale, who ran a 45.34 in 1964.
On deck for the Quakers is the 129th running of the Penn Relays, which will be held April 24-26 at Franklin Field.
Materials in the Annenberg School for Communication Library Archives include thousands of TV scripts, the first issue of TV Guide, and interviews about the early days of HBO—which help to chronicle TV’s 100-year story.
Centering joy in AI development and implementation
PIK Professor Desmond Upton Patton—of Annenberg and SP2—and collaborators introduce a joy-informed framework designed to initiate conversations among engineers, designers, and researchers.
Winter Storm Fern brought icy and snowy conditions to the Northeast and other parts of the country over the weekend. Penn Today asks physicist Robert Carpick about the unique properties of ice, the science of curling, and how close we are to ‘nonslip’ ice.
Organizations like Penn’s Netter Center for Community Partnerships foster collaborations between Penn and public schools in the West Philadelphia community.
Penn receives national distinction for community engagement
The recognition by the American Council on Education and Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching acknowledges Penn’s long-standing commitment to community-engaged scholarship and partnerships in West Philadelphia and beyond.
