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Running the point with Kendall Grasela
At the Palestra, Kendall Grasela of the women's basketball team poses with a ball resting on her shoulder.

Running the point with Kendall Grasela

The senior co-captain chats about playing the point guard position, avoiding turnovers, her close-knit family, matriculating at the School of Nursing, and controlling the controllables.
‘Possibility mentoring’ helps Philadelphia middle schoolers plan for their futures
gse student mentoring at a table with college pennants behind Mentor Alexander Blanchett, in the GSE counseling program, talks to the eighth graders in his group about their interest in a career in sports and how they might achieve their goals.

‘Possibility mentoring’ helps Philadelphia middle schoolers plan for their futures

Now in two Philadelphia public schools, master’s students at the Graduate School of Education are focused on helping the young teens imagine and take steps to realize their futures, while gaining real-world experience in education.
‘A specific struggle’: Makuu director Brian Peterson on Black student life
Man with crossed arms stands in front of a mural

Brian Peterson works at the ARCH building, where Makuu is housed along with other cultural resource centers.

‘A specific struggle’: Makuu director Brian Peterson on Black student life

Brian Peterson, three-time Penn graduate and director of Makuu: the Black Cultural Center, plays a central role in student life.

Kristina García

Working to keep Penn ‘cyber safe’
Nick Falcone standing with arms crossed with computer graphic renderings superimposed over the image.

Working to keep Penn ‘cyber safe’

Media hacks and data breaches are everywhere. Nick Falcone of Penn’s Office of Information Security works to keep the University’s information assets safe, from employing phishing-simulation tools to monitoring attack trends across all schools and centers.

Phyllis Holtzman

New College House West milestone marked
Two construction workers attach a crane to wires around a beam covered in signatures at the topping-off ceremony for New College House West

Two construction workers attach a crane to the final beam covered in signatures at the topping-off ceremony for New College House West.

New College House West milestone marked

As part of a long-standing tradition in construction, members of the construction, project, and architectural teams were given the opportunity to sign the last beam before it was hoisted via crane to the top of Penn's newest residence hall.
A day in shining armor
students gathered around a table looking at armor

A day in shining armor

Grad students get a close-up view of artwork and materials from museum collections—including a 500-year-old painting and two sets of armor from the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Tough conversations and innovative outlooks in higher ed
Gutmann and Zemsky in conversation

Tough conversations and innovative outlooks in higher ed

President Amy Gutmann and Graduate School of Education scholar Robert Zemsky took part in a “fireside chat” at this year’s Higher Education Leadership Conference at Penn, which also awarded Gutmann the Zemsky Medal.

Lauren Hertzler

Penn Medicine birth marks a milestone in uterus transplant clinical trial
uterine transplant baby close up

Born in November 2019, Benjamin Gobrecht’s arrival was a “perfect miracle” for his parents, Jennifer and Drew, and a medical milestone for researchers at Penn Medicine. He was the first baby born as part of Penn’s uterus transplant clinical trial.

Penn Medicine birth marks a milestone in uterus transplant clinical trial

The birth is Penn’s first as part of its uterus transplant clinical trial, and second in the United States following a deceased donor transplant.

Katie Delach

Coral reef resilience
Marine biologist Katie Barott with tanks containing corals in her lab at Penn

Marine biologist Katie Barott investigates the strategies  certain corals may use to tolerate the warmer temperatures and acidic waters that climate change is bringing to the world’s oceans.

Coral reef resilience

With coral reefs under threat from climate change, marine biologist Katie Barott studies how some corals may prove resilient to warming temperatures and acidifying oceans.

Katherine Unger Baillie

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