Act I featured Gayle scoring 20 points in the first half. Siena started the game on a 7-0 run before Gayle and Almqvist scored 16 of Penn’s first 17 points to help the Quakers take a 17-15 lead after the first period. Gayle scored 8 straight points early in the second quarter—two 3s and a jumper—which gave the Red & Blue a 25-17 advantage. Penn led 39-30 at intermission.
Fourth-year forward Jordan Obi was the star of Act II; she scored 10 points in the third quarter and kept the Quakers in the game. Siena went on a 16-2 run to start the second half, transforming a 39-30 Penn lead into a 46-41 Siena advantage. The Red & Blue trailed 59-56 headed into the final period.
Headlining Act III were Almqvist and first-year guard Abby Sharpe. Sharpe nailed back-to-back threes to open the fourth quarter, which put the Quakers ahead 62-59 lead. Another three by third-year guard Lizzy Groetsch gave Penn a 66-61 advantage. Sharpe’s three with 4:52 left in the game put the Red & Blue up 73-65. Almqvist put a bow on the win with 8 points in the final two minutes.
Gayle shot 5-for-8 from the behind the arc, one trey shy of tying Kayla Padilla’s first-year school record. Almqvist played 39 of 40 minutes and grabbed 10 rebounds. All 12 of Obi’s points came in the second half. She also had 4 rebounds, 4 assists, 3 blocks, and 2 steals. Sharpe finished with 11 points in 14 minutes. She shot 3-3 from three-point range.
Penn is 2-1 headed into Wednesday’s game against Chapman in Orange, California.
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.
