George Crumb, D.M.A., Annenberg Professor Emeritus of the Humanities, won a Grammy in February for Best Classical Contemporary Composition for his piece “Star Child,” on his “70th Birthday Album” (Bridge Records). Crumb won the Pulitzer Prize for music in 1968, and his piece was recorded under the baton of Thomas Conlin by the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra and Warsaw Philharmonic Chorus with soloists including Joseph Alessi on trombone and Susan Narucki, soprano.
Fulbrights
This year’s crop of 700 Fulbright Award recipients includes four members of the Penn faculty. The Fulbright grants fund study and research abroad. The winners from Penn are:
David Espey, Ph.D., director, English writing program, who will do research in Japan;
Kirsten Allegra Foot, research fellow and adjunct professor of public policy, who is going to Finland;
Sharon Ash, associate director, linguistics lab, who will do research in Poland; and
Janet Marie Roberts, lecturer, University of Pennsylvania Museum, who is going to Uzbekistan.
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.
