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.
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.
