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Greg Johnson

Managing Editor
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  • Greg Johnson

    Greg Johnson covers Penn Athletics and Recreation, which includes sports teams, intramural sports, and the Penn Relays. He manages the annual Research at Penn publication, which highlights notable research from all 12 schools at Penn.

    Articles from Greg Johnson
    Coming up clutch with Jana Dweek
    Jana Dweek holds a squash racket up against a wall with squash ball marks.

    Image: Eric Sucar

    Coming up clutch with Jana Dweek

    The fourth year on the women’s squash team discusses the Quakers’ national championship-winning season. Dweek clinched the Howe Cup for the Red & Blue by winning the decisive match in straight sets.

    3 min. read

    Hard work with Simone Sawyer
    Simone Sawyer holds a basketball on her shoulder.

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    Hard work with Simone Sawyer

    The fourth-year guard on the women’s basketball team discusses playing basketball with her best friends, the responsibilities of a team captain, her most memorable game, and supporting well-being.

    3 min. read

    Where economic modeling meets real-world legislation
    Kent Smetters and another person looking at a whiteboard

    Junghoon Lee (left), director of engineering and data at the Penn Wharton Budget Model (PWBM), and Kent Smetters (right). The PWBM is the only non-governmental group analyzing how public policy simultaneously affects the federal budget, macroeconomic growth, and human welfare.

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    Where economic modeling meets real-world legislation

    The Penn Wharton Budget Model is the only non-governmental group analyzing how public policy simultaneously affects the federal budget, macroeconomic growth, and human welfare.

    3 min. read

    Hoop dreams with Ethan Roberts
    Ethan Roberts holding a basketball at the entrance to the Palestra.

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    Hoop dreams with Ethan Roberts

    The fourth-year guard discusses how basketball is a microcosm for life, transferring to Penn, playing for Coach Fran McCaffery, and the pride he has in donning the Red & Blue.

    4 min. read

    Hurrah for the Red and the Blue
    From left, Coach Mike McLaughlin, Mataya Gayle, and President J. Larry Jameson.

    Image: Don Felice/Penn Athletics

    Hurrah for the Red and the Blue

    On Saturday at the Palestra, President J. Larry Jameson and Provost John L. Jackson, Jr. acknowledged Penn student-athletes for their remarkable achievements.
    A balancing act with Carly Oniki
    Carly Oniki leans against a balance beam in the gymnastics training center.

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    A balancing act with Carly Oniki

    The fourth-year gymnast discusses the multiyear success of the gymnastics team, her love of the sport, her favorite place on campus, some off-the-mat activities, and why Penn was her dream school.

    5 min. read

    Bringing much-needed dental care to an underserved community
    Dental residents treat a patient at Penn Dental at Woods.

    Staffed by Penn Dental postgraduate dental residents, along with attending dentists, Penn Dental at Woods treats both resident in-patients and out-patients of Woods, employees, special needs students at the Woods onsite school, and people with disabilities from the community.

    (Image: Courtesy of Penn Dental at Woods)

    Bringing much-needed dental care to an underserved community

    People with disabilities often face barriers to dental care. A collaboration between Penn Dental Medicine and Woods Services is changing that, bringing dental care with compassion to people with disabilities, a vastly underserved population.

    2 min read

    Making math add up for seventh graders
    Cole DuHaime leans against a statue outside College Hall.

    Image: Eric Sucar

    Making math add up for seventh graders

    Third-year Cole DuHaime taught math to seventh graders over the summer in a service opportunity made possible by Generation Teach and the Ben Franklin Scholars Program.

    4 min. read

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