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Serving aces with Iuliia Bryzgalova
Serving aces with Iuliia Bryzgalova
The freshman tennis player has been awarded Ivy League Player of the Year and Rookie of the Year honors.
A new way to fly, built up from the nanoscale
A new way to fly, built up from the nanoscale
Super-thin “nanocardboard” can levitate using only the power of light, opening the door to tiny flying machines with no moving parts.
A sense of place on shifting shores
A sense of place on shifting shores
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.
Training physician-scholars to see patients as people, not categories
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.
Hate to see you go: Move-Out 2019
Hate to see you go: Move-Out 2019
A by-the-numbers guide to facts and services for the end-of-semester exodus.
For Philly Tech Week, a showcase for cutting-edge robots
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.
Up in the air with Anna Peyton Malizia
Up in the air with Anna Peyton Malizia
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.
Putting mussels to the test
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.
Studying novels with novelist Jennifer Egan
Studying novels with novelist Jennifer Egan
Pulitzer-Prize winning author Jennifer Egan returns to her alma mater to teach a course on English literature.
Musical merger of academics and performance
Musical merger of academics and performance
Music 236 emerges students in focused study on one classical composer through academics and musical performance with the Daedalus Quartet.