The men and women’s squash swept Princeton in an exciting pair of matches at the Penn Squash Center on Sunday, Feb. 9.
The Quakers’ top-ranked men gained a 6-3 victory over the second-ranked Tigers, in the process winning the outright Ivy League title as both teams entered Sunday's match unbeaten in Ivy play.
On the women’s side, the fifth-ranked Quakers emerged with a 5-4 victory over the third-ranked Tigers for the program’s first win over Princeton since 2017.
The Quakers will close out their regular seasons on Feb. 20 when they make the short trip North on 33rd Street to face University City rival Drexel.
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.
