Set your VCRs: On Jan. 31, hundreds of millions of people will see a small business founded by a Penn student break into the big time during the Super Bowl. Jeremy's MicroBatch Ice Cream, founded by Jeremy Kraus (W'98) while he was enrolled as a Wharton undergraduate, will be featured in a Mail Boxes Etc. commercial during the big game. Kraus, pictured here (left) with Bill Anderson, owner of the MBE store at 3741 Walnut St., won the second annual "See Your Small Business on the Super Bowl Search" sponsored by the business-services chain. The commercial fits in with Kraus' plans to take his super-premium ice cream national this year.
Nanoparticle blueprints reveal path to smarter medicines
New research involving Penn Engineering shows detailed variation in lipid nanoparticle size, shape, and internal structure, and finds that such factors correlate with how well they deliver therapeutic cargo to a particular destination.
A generous gift from alumni Glenn and Amanda Fuhrman brings the work of internationally acclaimed artist Jaume Plensa to the University of Pennsylvania. The latest addition to the Penn Art Collection expands Philadelphia's public art.
A massive chunk of ice, a new laser, and new information on sea-level rise
For nearly a decade, Leigh Stearns and collaborators aimed a laser scanner system at Greenland’s Helheim Glacier. Their long-running survey reveals that Helheim’s massive calving events don’t behave the way scientists once thought, reframing how ice loss contributes to sea-level rise.
