Campus & Community

Ivan Kuznetsov, an M.D./Ph.D.

It’s a Tuesday morning at Walmoore Holsteins, Inc., a dairy farm in Chatham, Chester County, and fourth-year veterinary student Meghana Pendurthi has found a firm pelvic mass during palpation of a young cow.

Dear Benny,

Marking an entrance into campus from Spruce Street, and tucked between Houston and Williams halls, sits the Class of 1893 Memorial Gate. Designed by two members of the class—Elliston P. Bissell and William C. Hays—the gate has a brick and terracotta base with arched ironwork that spells out the class motto in Latin: Inveniemus viam aut faciemus.

Recording an album right out of school was something violinist Francesca dePasquale never thought she’d have the financial means to do. But thanks to a $100,000 grant from the Leonore Annenberg Arts Fellowship Fund, the newly minted Juilliard School graduate’s big dream became a reality.

In the 1970s, scientists noticed something strange about the motion of galaxies. All the matter at the edges of spiral galaxies was rotating just as fast as material in the inner parts of the galaxies. But according to the laws of gravity, objects on the outskirts should be moving slower.

In the 2015 Mexican telenovela “Simplemente María,” María is an average woman who must raise her child alone. To change her lot in life, she procures a sewing machine, learns to sew, and works her way up in the fashion industry. She can soon support herself and her son.

April 22, 1970, marked the first celebration of Earth Day, and members of the Penn community, including PennDesign Dean Frederick Steiner, were among the key organizers.

More than three years ago, Penn Dental Medicine Dean Denis Kinane took leaders from the school on a retreat to ask a challenging question: How would the school rebuild and rethink the pre-clinic for students?