The banana — Winston Pear (C’02, left rear) — was busy helping other customers. So it was left up to the bunch of grapes — Ryan Crocetto (C’99, center) — to turn diners Julie Bookbinder (EAS’02) and Mark Kurish (C’01) on to the delights of the banana and its kin. The two fruits, student employees of Dining Services, along with Lucky the Leprechaun — a.k.a. Dining Services Culinary Steward Shana Abelson — and a whole host of suppliers of good and healthy foods, spent lunchtime March 29 at Hill House, the third-to-last stop on a month-long traveling fair organized by Dining Services Nutritionist Emily Sherr to promote National Nutrition Month.
Materials in the Annenberg School for Communication Library Archives include thousands of TV scripts, the first issue of TV Guide, and interviews about the early days of HBO—which help to chronicle TV’s 100-year story.
Centering joy in AI development and implementation
PIK Professor Desmond Upton Patton—of Annenberg and SP2—and collaborators introduce a joy-informed framework designed to initiate conversations among engineers, designers, and researchers.
Winter Storm Fern brought icy and snowy conditions to the Northeast and other parts of the country over the weekend. Penn Today asks physicist Robert Carpick about the unique properties of ice, the science of curling, and how close we are to ‘nonslip’ ice.
Organizations like Penn’s Netter Center for Community Partnerships foster collaborations between Penn and public schools in the West Philadelphia community.
Penn receives national distinction for community engagement
The recognition by the American Council on Education and Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching acknowledges Penn’s long-standing commitment to community-engaged scholarship and partnerships in West Philadelphia and beyond.
