The judges liked our concept— that we had expected. But we hadn’t expected to beat the magazine writers at their own game.
Along with a Gold Medal for Internal Audience Periodicals in this year’s CASE Circle of Excellence Awards, Pennsylvania Current won a Gold Medal for Periodical Staff Writing, a category dominated by glossy magazines such as co-winner Tulanian of Tulane University.
“We were thrilled that our writing outshined the 4,000-word stories in the more heavily financed magazines,” said Editor Libby Rosof.
In the Internal Audience Periodicals category, the Current was one of seven gold medalists; it shared top honors for weekly or biweekly two-color tabloids with SUNY-Binghamton’s Inside Binghamton University. A complete list of winners will appear on the CASE Web site (www.case.org/awards) in June.
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.
