With four games left to play in the 1978 season, Penn ice hockey coach Bob Finke learned the news from a Daily Pennsylvanian reporter: Because of budget restraints, the University was dropping hockey as a varsity sport.
Though students stormed the athletic department in protest of the cuts—which also included golf and gymnastics—hockey at Penn officially ended with a game against rival Cornell on March 4, 1978, because while golf and gymnastics were reinstated, hockey was not. It was a sad end for a sport that, for a while, was among Penn’s most popular. In fact, when the Class of 1923 Arena (pictured above) opened in 1970, Penn hockey boasted one of the premier facilities in the country, and crowds of 2,000 fans routinely packed the arena to see the Quakers play. In the 1971-1972 season, the team posted a 15-7 record and earned a playoff berth. It would prove to be the high point of the team’s varsity years.
For more on this and other notable moments in Penn’s history, visit the University Archives web site at www.archives.upenn.edu.
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.
