Penn GSE doctoral students (from left to right) Janay Garrett, Daris McInnis, Christopher R. Rogers, Laronnda Thompson, and Latricia Whitfield, who are all active in the Black Lives Matter at School Week of Action, share the Black history they wish they learned in school. (Image: Penn GSE)
Five Graduate School of Education doctoral students—Janay Garrett, Daris McInnis, Christopher R. Rogers, Laronnda Thompson, and Latricia Whitfield—who are leading Penn’s Black Lives Matter at School’s Week of Action share what they wish they had been taught in middle and high school, and how students from all backgrounds can take action to make the world a more just place.
To start: Look beyond the usual luminaries. In addition to Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr., look to lesser known leaders like Black educator Carter G. Woodson, whose week of spotlighting Black leaders back in 1926 grew into what is now Black History Month.
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.
