Kelly He lifts the mould and deckle to drain water from the paper pulp.
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Making paper for the Declaration’s anniversary
Learn the five steps to making paper as it was done in the Revolutionary era, part of a Common Press semiquincentennial project, alongside a class from the Weitzman School of Design.
Kate O'Neill: Bringing hope to uterine health patients
Physician-scientist Kate O’Neill directs innovative research that helps people suffering from infertility, endometriosis, and other issues build families and have excellent quality-of-life.
Quakers post numerous milestones during 130th Penn Relays
From Thursday through Saturday, the 130th annual Penn Relays enlivened Franklin Field. The world-renowned three-day competition featured nearly 20,000 athletes of all levels.
At the DumoLab, research associate Yasaman Amirzehni is working to develop a biocomposite suitable for indoor and outdoor cladding applications, which could eventually serve as true structural components like load-bearing columns.
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Turning peels into pavers: How Penn designers turn food scraps into biodegradable building materials
The Weitzman School’s Laia Mogas-Soldevila and Yasaman Amirzehni transform unavoidable food waste—like fruit peels and eggshells, which account for 14.8% of post-consumer restaurant food waste—into durable, biodegradable building materials in collaboration with Penn Dining.
Students in the Performance, Analysis, History class explore and perform on piano the work of Johann Sebastian Bach, regarded among history’s greatest composers. Taught by Jamuna Samuel and Yu Xi Wang, the class contextualizes and demystifies Bach through a historical and geographical lens.
César de la Fuente: Uncovering new antibiotics with AI
César de la Fuente leverages machine learning to accelerate the discovery of lifesaving drugs and help reduce antibiotic resistance, a rising global health problem.
Applying design to agriculture for a new approach to agroforestry
Penn researchers are leading a multidisciplinary land-use project that blends trees, livestock, and streamside buffers to turn New Bolton Center into a living lab for stewardship agriculture.
At Convocation, first-years called on to ‘embrace the unexpected’
Penn’s 286th academic year formally began at Convocation, where President J. Larry Jameson drew lessons from nature by invoking fireflies—recognizing students’ brilliance, prescribing them to ‘“embrace the unexpected,” and reminding them, “Fireflies do not glow alone.”
