Spring is here, along with the baseball and softball seasons that accompany it. Penn’s baseball and softball teams both started off the season on a winning note; the baseball team defeated Georgetown 13-4 in their opener and the softball team blanked South Dakota 1-0.
Junior Dan Williams went 3 for 4 and scored five runs to lead the Quakers, while sophomore Chelsea Ott pitched a complete-game shutout.
In this edition of By The Numbers, we go yard with the Penn baseball and softball teams.
.459 Donald Kellett’s batting average in 1934, the highest single-season batting average in Penn baseball history.
.500 Sharon Gross’ batting average in 1982, the highest single-season batting average in Penn softball history.
0.40 Walter Lynch’s earned run average in 1966, the lowest single-season ERA in Penn baseball history.
0.69 Patti Vivial’s earned run average in 1985, the lowest single-season ERA in Penn softball history.
9 Years, to the day, since a Penn baseball pitcher last threw a no-hitter. Andrew McCreery pitched a no-hitter against Yale on April 8, 2001.
48 Number of games the Penn softball team will play this year in a span of 55 days.
73 Number of Penn baseball players who have gone on to play in MLB, including Doc Farrell, who won a World Series with the New York Yankees in 1932.
24 Number of home runs Annie Kinsey hit over her four-year career (2005-08), the most in Penn softball history. She is also tops in at bats (563), hits (228), runs (162), RBIs (103) and doubles (45).
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.
