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    Three days of Penn Relays, for 125 years
    Penn Relays 2019 - Center field winning team

    From left: Nia Akins, Melissa Tanaka, Uchechi Nwogwugwu, and Maddie Villalba pose for photos at center field after winning the Women’s DMR Championship of America during the 125th running of the Penn Relays at Franklin Field in Philadelphia on April 25.

    Three days of Penn Relays, for 125 years

    For 125 years, the nation’s largest outdoor track and field event has convened on Franklin Field for Penn Relays, come rain or shine.

    Penn Today Staff

    Four Penn undergraduates receive Goldwater Scholarships
    Sophomore Chloe Cho and juniors Lauren Duhamel, Srinivas Mandyam and Abigail Poteshman.

    Four Penn undergraduates have received a Goldwater Scholarship. Clockwise from top left, sophomore Chloe Cho and junior Lauren Duhamel in the School of Engineering and Applied Science; and juniors Srinivas Mandyam and Abigail Poteshman in the School of Arts and Sciences.

    Four Penn undergraduates receive Goldwater Scholarships

    Four Penn undergraduates have been awarded Goldwater Scholarships to pursue research careers in mathematics, the natural sciences, or engineering. Sophomore Chloe Cho and juniors Lauren Duhamel, Srinivas Mandyam and Abigail Poteshman.
    A life of writing and song
    Rosanne Cash speaking at microphone at table with professor Al Filreis looking at her and smiling.

    Singer-songwriter and author Rosanne Cash (left) met with students at the Kelly Writers House as part of the Fellows program, now in its 20th year. She made two public appearances, including a discussion with Al Filreis (right), English professor and Writers House faculty director.  

    A life of writing and song

    Rosanne Cash, a Kelly Writers House Fellow, was on campus for a course taught by English Professor Al Filreis that focuses on three eminent writers each spring semester.  
    For Kennett Square’s mushroom farmworkers, healthy interventions come directly to the workplace
    Two men sitting cross-legged on a wooden bench.

    Penn Nursing seniors José Maciel (left) and Antonio Renteria were awarded a 2019 President’s Engagement Prize for their project Cultivando Juntos, a 10-week community-based curriculum aimed at alleviating the social determinants of health for the mushroom farmworkers of Kennett Square.

    For Kennett Square’s mushroom farmworkers, healthy interventions come directly to the workplace

    With the President’s Engagement Prize, seniors José Maciel and Antonio Renteria plan to bring subjects like nutrition and sleep to the workers, reinforcing preventive screenings already provided by a local, federally qualified health center.

    Michele W. Berger

    125 years of Franklin Field
    franklin field

    125 years of Franklin Field

    The historic stadium, home to the University of Pennsylvania Quakers and the Penn Relays, is celebrating its quasquicentennial. It is the oldest college stadium in the country.
    Rare Chinese scroll unfurled at Penn Museum
    Seven students gathered together looking at a painted Chinese scroll unrolled on a table.

    Students in an art history course study objects each week at the Penn Museum, including a rare 200-year-old painted Chinese scroll. The course, History of Chinese Painting, is taught by Professor Nancy Steinhardt and grad student teaching assistant Chuanxin Weng (pictured center). 

    Rare Chinese scroll unfurled at Penn Museum

    Students in a history of art course taught by Professor Nancy Steinhardt had the chance to closely examine a rare 200-year-old painted Chinese scroll at the Penn Museum.
    Brain regions linked to memory and emotion help humans navigate smell
    A man in a blue plaid coat, pink shirt and purple tie standing in front of a blurry building.

    Jay Gottfried is a Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor and the Arthur H. Rubenstein University Professor at the University of Pennsylvania.

    Brain regions linked to memory and emotion help humans navigate smell

    The work points to the existence of a grid-like hexagonal structure in olfactory-related brain areas, similar to mapping configurations previously found to support spatial navigation in animals.

    Michele W. Berger

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