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A decade of advancing working dogs for the greater good
new litter of penn working dogs

(Homepage image) Puppies at the Penn Vet Working Dog Center, like these black Labs of the “U litter,” begin their formal training at the tender age of 8 weeks, an unusual feature of the program. Playtime is an important part of that preparation, building confidence and improving physical and social skills.

A decade of advancing working dogs for the greater good

Inspired by her experience caring for working dogs following 9/11 at Ground Zero, Penn Vet Working Dog Center Director Cynthia Otto’s initial vision has grown into a thriving organization with a mission to use science to improve the breeding, training, care, and effectiveness of working dogs.

Katherine Unger Baillie

Ultrasound medical education puts insight in hand
ultrasound training boot camp

(Homepage image) Second-year students practice ultrasound-guided IV insertion on specialized manikin arms, supervised by their fourth-year TAs.

Ultrasound medical education puts insight in hand

An integrated four-year ultrasound curriculum helps Penn’s Perelman School of Medicine students build competence and confidence in the classroom and the clinic.

Karen L. Brooks for Penn Medicine Magazine

The story the bowls tell
penn museum incantation bowl being examined

Gross and Elitzur-Leiman are studying some intact, pristine bowls and others, like the one above, that are in pieces. “The sherds tell a story, too,” says Blanchard.

The story the bowls tell

In an ambitious new project, historian Simcha Gross and Harvard’s Rivka Elitzur-Leiman are studying hundreds of ancient incantation bowls housed at the Penn Museum. They hope to better understand the objects and eventually, build a database of all these bowls worldwide.

Michele W. Berger

‘26 for the Class of 2026’
penn president liz magill talks to students during move in

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‘26 for the Class of 2026’

In a video, President Liz Magill gathered insight from students on their favorite activities to do on and around campus.

Lauren Hertzler

Class of 2026 moves in
penn family moves into quad with suitcases

Class of 2026 moves in

New students traveled from near and far Tuesday, settling into College Houses, meeting their roommates, and spending precious moments with family.

Lauren Hertzler

A success story from Southern Africa
A group of doctors looking at an x-ray in a children’s hospital in Botswana.

(Homepage image) Medical trainees and members of the BUP team, including CHOP pediatrician Henry Welch (second from left), review a chest X-ray. (Image: Ryan Littman-Quinn)

A success story from Southern Africa

The Botswana-UPenn Partnership celebrates 20 years of medical, scholarly, and educational progress.

Meredith Mann

Inside the Quaker’s head
Sophia Zehler removes the Quaker mascot head in costume at the Palestra.

Inside the Quaker’s head

Sophia Zehler recently earned her master’s degree from the Fels Institute of Government. The first-generation Cuban American also spent the year as Penn’s mascot, her third mascotting position in five years.

Michele W. Berger

With school out, construction crews work in earnest
Two construction workers work on the interior of Penn Boathouse.

A new room for hosting events inside the Penn Boathouse. Completion of the Boathouse renovation is one of 395 active projects on and around campus, encompassing $1.2 billion in approved total budgets and 339 construction workers on campus daily.

With school out, construction crews work in earnest

Campus may have depopulated for the summer, but construction workers have moved in to begin or accelerate work on projects both big and small. Here, an overview of what’s in progress on Penn’s campus—and beyond.
Can nature-inspired designs affect cognition and mood?
Farhan Jivraj sits at a desk and looks at the topographic rug in the biophilic room

Can nature-inspired designs affect cognition and mood?

A team from the Center for Neuroaesthetics created a biophilic room to test the idea. Preliminary findings from a small pilot show promise, but also spur many questions about how to best use such a space.

Michele W. Berger, Kelsey Geesler , Michael Grant

Grappling with a watershed’s uncertain environmental future
Several people around a table, one holds a satellite map.

Grappling with a watershed’s uncertain environmental future

Artists supported by the Penn Program in Environmental Humanities created tools for navigating unpredictable ecological challenges, then brought them to life in a series of public workshops at the Independence Seaport Museum.

Katherine Unger Baillie