Melissa G. Hunt is the associate director of clinical training in the Department of Psychology in the School of Arts & Sciences. She is also author of the book “Reclaim Your Life from IBS: A Scientifically Proven Plan for Relief without Restrictive Diets.”
New ‘match’ streamlines clinical training experience for psych graduate students
A new “match” for clinical psychology graduate students connects trainees with potential externship sites. In its second year, the initiative successfully matched more than 250 trainees in the mid-Atlantic region.
Left to right: Seniors Makayla Reynolds, Kayvon Asemani, Silicia Lomax, Jerome Allen, Alexandra Rubin, Dawit Gebresellassie, Madeline Gelfand, and Nicholas Silverio were honored with Senior Honors at the 2018 Ivy Day ceremony. Photo by Scott Spitzer.
2018 Ivy Day ceremony
In a 145-year old tradition, 28 seniors were honored, as well as one junior, a sophomore, and two class of 2017 alumni.
When they graduate next year, students in the Class of 2019 will remember April 26 as the heyday of their college lives. Hey Day is the annual rite of passage for juniors, when they move up the class ranks to become seniors.
For the second consecutive year, Penn Campus Recreation brought a company called Aqua Vida to Sheerr Pool to run an hour-long floating yoga class—posing and breathing atop paddle boards.
Working the core without making a splash
Yoga requires balance, an engaged core, contorting the body into unusual positions, calculated breathing. Now imagine doing that while floating on a paddle board. That’s what several participants did at Sheerr Pool as part of “Spring into Wellness Week.”
Harold Dibble and his team research how humans might have made stone tools and flakes, from as far back as 2 million years ago to as recently as 10,000 years ago.
When ancient technology and high-tech robots intersect
In one Penn lab, a stone-sculpting machine is helping archaeologists solve long-held mysteries of very old tools.
Wharton senior Anye Wanki plays with his mentee Caleb Devastey during recess at Powel Elementary School.
Mentorship program introduces students of color to their Ivy League contemporaries
The HERstory/HIStory mentors from Penn’s W. E. B. Du Bois College House offer advice, wisdom, and friendship to local second-, third-, and fourth-graders.
