Long before he became a household name and before he won his Nobel Prize, Martin Luther King, Jr. was a student at Crozer Theological Seminary in Chester, Pa., and also audited three philosophy courses at Penn’s Graduate School of Arts & Sciences. He returned to campus in 1965 as part of a group of panelists for a special seminar titled “Rule of Law,” held at the Penn Museum (pictured). Organized by Trustee Robert L. Trescher, the program for 400 invited guests was a new approach to Penn’s Law Day observance. Next-day coverage in the Philadelphia Inquirer quoted King: “Justice at time proceeds with a halting gait and the law has often been slow to speak for the poor, the dispossessed and the disenfranchised.”www.upenn.edu/aarc/mlk/.
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.
