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The Eagles won the 1960 NFL Championship at Franklin Field
Eagles rookie running back and returner Ted Dean bursts through Packers defenders during the 1960 NFL Championship Game at Franklin Field.

Eagles rookie running back and returner Ted Dean bursts through Packers defenders during the 1960 NFL Championship Game at Franklin Field.

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The Eagles won the 1960 NFL Championship at Franklin Field

The Birds defeated the Vince Lombardi-led Green Bay Packers 17-13 on Dec. 26, 1960.
Celebrating five years of excellence at VinUniversity
Interim Penn President J. Larry Jameson in a lab examining a piece of equipment.

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Celebrating five years of excellence at VinUniversity

Interim Penn President J. Larry Jameson visited VinUni in Hanoi, Vietnam, to commemorate the university’s fifth anniversary and Penn’s seventh year of allyship. He delivered a lecture about how excellent universities advance society.
What’s That? The Heisman Trophy
The Heisman Trophy in the office of football coach Ray Priore.

Image: Eric Sucar

What’s That? The Heisman Trophy

In the office of Ray Priore, head coach of the football team, rests the Heisman Trophy, the most prestigious award in college sports.
Q&A with Penn Vet’s Karen Verderame
Karen Verderame sits at her desk holding a tarantula.

Penn Vet’s Karen Verderame has 17 tarantulas, vinegaroons (whip-tail scorpions), true scorpions, hissing cockroaches, giant cockroaches, three bearded dragons, a snake, hermit crabs, chinchillas, two dogs, and three cats. 

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Q&A with Penn Vet’s Karen Verderame

Verderame, an outreach educator at the School of Veterinary Medicine, discusses her kinship with misunderstood animals, introducing students to veterinary medicine, the black market for insects, her favorite part of her job, and the dreaded spotted lanternfly.
Caretaker of 9,000 works of art
Lynn Dolby standing in front of two artworks

Lynn Smith Dolby is the director of the Penn Art Collection, which has nearly 9,000 artworks. 

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Caretaker of 9,000 works of art

As the director of the Penn Art Collection in charge of nearly 9,000 artworks, Lynn Smith Dolby manages the conservation, registration, and display of all University-owned art, indoors and outdoors across campus.
Rivers in a changing world
Penn students and Sayre high school students wading in a river in Cobbs Creek.

Sayre ninth-grade science teacher LaRon Smith (center) is a former landscape gardener from South Philadelphia who switched careers to mentor a younger generation. “I think my passion is for them to be better individuals, better human beings,” Smith says.

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Rivers in a changing world

A new Academically Based Community Service class brings Penn and William L. Sayre High School students together to learn environmental science and engineering.

Kristina García