Roderick Coover, whose work merges cinema, science, and history, is the 2019 Mellon Artist-in-Residence for the Penn Program in Environmental Humanities (PPEH). His recent film “Toxi-City: A Climate Change Narrative” screened at PPEH’s “Teaching and Learning with Rising Waters” event.
The anthropology M.D.-Ph.D. program, run by Adriana Petryna (left) of the Anthropology Department, in concert with Lawrence Brass of the Perelman School of Medicine, combines clinical and ethnographic training with an eye toward preparing students like Utpal Sandesara (right) to tackle health inequalities. Sandesara, who will graduate this month, is one of nine students in the 10-year-old program.
Training physician-scholars to see patients as people, not categories
The anthropology M.D.-Ph.D. program, recently graduating its first two students, combines clinical and ethnographic skills aimed at working with and caring for society’s marginalized.
Senior Ahsen Kayani checks on the tanks, set up alongside the BioPond.
Putting mussels to the test
With a mussel hatchery in the future for the Schuylkill River, students in Byron Sherwood’s field biology course used scientific rigor to ask how effectively these filter feeders might render the water clean.
The event was part of Philly Tech Week, a citywide technology showcase, and attracted entrepreneurs and potential funders.
For Philly Tech Week, a showcase for cutting-edge robots
Penn students, faculty, and affiliated entrepreneurs showed off their latest legged robots, drones, automated driving systems, and more at the Pennovation Center as part of the annual celebration of the tech industry in Philadelphia.
The record-setting senior discusses how to be a successful high jumper, her training schedule, how her ballet training has helped her jumping, and her plans after Commencement.
