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/.
Nanoparticle blueprints reveal path to smarter medicines
New research involving Penn Engineering shows detailed variation in lipid nanoparticle size, shape, and internal structure, and finds that such factors correlate with how well they deliver therapeutic cargo to a particular destination.
A generous gift from alumni Glenn and Amanda Fuhrman brings the work of internationally acclaimed artist Jaume Plensa to the University of Pennsylvania. The latest addition to the Penn Art Collection expands Philadelphia's public art.
A massive chunk of ice, a new laser, and new information on sea-level rise
For nearly a decade, Leigh Stearns and collaborators aimed a laser scanner system at Greenland’s Helheim Glacier. Their long-running survey reveals that Helheim’s massive calving events don’t behave the way scientists once thought, reframing how ice loss contributes to sea-level rise.
