Quaker Days help potential students decide whether to make Penn home
Quaker Days gives admitted students a chance to see Penn up close and personal as they decide where they will spend the next four years of their lives. It also gives them the opportunity to meet future classmates while providing a look at Philadelphia, Penn’s home for more than two centuries.
Tables set up along Locust Walk offer prospective students and their families information about academics and life at Penn, highlighting what the school has to offer in academics and community.
Representatives from academic departments and other programs answer questions and offer insight as part of College Palooza on College Green. Over 44,000 students applied for the 2018-19 academic year, and only were 3,731 accepted. For students who haven't made their final enrollment decisions, Quaker Days holds events and information sessions to give a little preview of what life at Penn may be like. With the application process over, potential students who may have already visited campus previously can focus their attention on whether the course of study, or campus life, or student body, is a right fit.
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.
