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    A year in photos and videos

    A year in photos and videos

    Penn Today’s visual review of the 2024-25 academic year highlights the innovation, community outreach, individual milestones, and collective celebration.

    Penn Today Staff

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    Designing cleaner, greener concrete that absorbs carbon dioxide
    Masoud Akbarzadeh holding up one of the fabricated materials.

    The Polyhedral Structures Laboratory is housed at the Pennovation Center and brings together designers, engineers, and computer scientists to reimagine the built world. Using graphic statics, a method where forces are mapped as lines, they design forms that balance compression and tension. These result in structures that use far fewer materials while remaining strong and efficient.

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    Designing cleaner, greener concrete that absorbs carbon dioxide

    Penn engineers, materials scientists, and designers have developed a 3D-printed concrete solution based on diatomaceous earth that has enhanced carbon capture, is stronger, and uses fewer materials like cement.

    6 min. read

    Keeping food safe and animals healthy
    A lab technician injecting small eggs with a substance via syringe.

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    Keeping food safe and animals healthy

    As part of the Pennsylvania Animal Diagnostic Laboratory System (PADLS), Penn Vet’s New Bolton Center helps to protect animals and humans from health threats and minimize agricultural economic loss.

    7 min. read

    Measles: An explainer
     Judy O’Donnell.

    Image: Courtesy of Penn Medicine

    Measles: An explainer

    Judy O’Donnell, the associate chief medical officer for Healthcare Epidemiology for the University of Pennsylvania Health System, and the chief of Infectious Diseases at Penn Presbyterian Medical Center, explains what people need to know about measles.

    Flying high with the Penn Aerial Robotics club
    A robotic aerial drone on Penn’s Locust Walk.

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    Flying high with the Penn Aerial Robotics club

    For more than a decade, Penn students have been building and competing with unmanned aerial vehicles. They unveil their latest creations, an autonomous drone-like tilt-rotor aircraft and a model plane, before they head to an international competition in Los Angeles this spring.

    7 min. read

    From the Archives: Raymond and Sadie Alexander family home movies
    Sadie and Raymond Alexander with a film projector in a room with books on bookshelves and framed photos behind them.

    Penn alumni Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander and Raymond Pace Alexander in their North Philadelphia home, 1708 W. Jefferson St., in 1952, looking at some of their home movies, which are in the University Archives and Records Center.

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    From the Archives: Raymond and Sadie Alexander family home movies

    The University Archives’ Alexander Family Papers document the professional and personal lives of Penn trailblazers Raymond and Sadie Alexander, as well as some of their family members. Included are more than 100 home movies, dating from 1930 to 1961.
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