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Enriching Internship Could Lead to a Career for Penn Student

    • Enriching Internship Could Lead to a Career for Penn Student

    Jane Wu is getting an early start at the University of Pennsylvania on a possible future career in research to help save the environment and preserve human health.

    Jeanne Leong

    Penn team treats high blood pressure with plants

    • Penn team treats high blood pressure with plants

    Pulmonary hypertension is a devastating disease that occurs when the arteries feeding the lungs narrow, making the right side of the heart work harder to pump blood to the lungs. Over time, the heart weakens, leading to heart failure.

    Katherine Unger Baillie

    Penn research adds new dimensions to understanding spatial memory

    • Penn research adds new dimensions to understanding spatial memory

    The brain has a complex system for keeping track of which direction a person is facing as he or she moves about; remembering how to get from one place to another would otherwise be impossible.

    Evan Lerner

    For the Record: Penn Boathouse

    • For the Record: Penn Boathouse

    Rowing, one of the oldest sports at Penn, began in 1854 when 10 freshmen founded the University Barge Club (UBC).

    Jeanne Leong

    Staff Q&A with Elsa Amaral

    • Staff Q&A with Elsa Amaral

    Some might consider Elsa Amaral’s role as a physical therapist at Penn to be an accidental career. In 2001, while living in Hoboken, N.J., and working for Macy’s in Manhattan, she injured herself during a skiing trip and wound up in physical therapy.

    Maria Zankey

    Dalits overcome caste barriers to become self-made entrepreneurs

    • Dalits overcome caste barriers to become self-made entrepreneurs

    The dehumanizing system of racial segregation that flourished in the American South from the end of Reconstruction through the 1970s has a friend in the former caste system in India. Both were callous, heartless, and cruel, and marginalized an oppressed people.
    How can I nominate my co-worker for a Model of Excellence Award?

    • How can I nominate my co-worker for a Model of Excellence Award?

    Dear Benny,I’ve heard of the Models of Excellence program and have known people who have won awards—but is anyone at Penn eligible for this? How do I nominate a deserving colleague?—Supporting Staffer

    Prepping the best to learn and lead

    • Prepping the best to learn and lead

    Growing up in Brooklyn, Collin Williams got plenty of attention for being a smart, motivated student. Sometimes, that attention wasn’t great: Being a self-described kid who “had all the answers” got him bullied by his classmates.