The exhibit, “Snapshots of Service: Penn Students Give Back,” chronicles the work of student volunteers who spent spring break doing community service across the country and around the world. Penn President Amy Gutmann (pictured) joined students April 15 at the photo exhibit’s opening and congratulated them for their hard work and for embracing Penn’s tradition of civic engagement.
More than 320 Penn undergrads traveled to places as far away as Lublin, Poland, and Prague, Czech Republic. One group of students from the Fox Leadership Program spent the week in New Orleans, helping the city continue to rebuild and recover from 2005’s Hurricane Katrina. Others contributed to habitat conservation efforts in Florida and worked with a non-governmental organization in Yucatan, Mexico, to help villagers become more self-sufficient and less dependent on unpredictable climate conditions for an income.
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.
