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Being well and doing well
Yoga in Franklin Field

Being well and doing well

Benoit Dubé, the chief wellness officer at Penn, Giang T. Nguyen, executive director of Student Health Service, and Meeta Kumar, deputy executive director of CAPS, discuss Penn’s efforts to strengthen and support the health and wellness of students.
With parents and families, Gutmann stresses the ties that bond
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Penn President Amy Gutmann addressed parents and families inside Irvine Auditorium to kick off Family Weekend 2018.

With parents and families, Gutmann stresses the ties that bond

President Amy Gutmann spoke about Penn’s unprecedented successes and core commitments—and about the importance of relationships in making it all possible.

Cuba libre
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Penn students met with artist Salvador González Escalona at the Afro-Cuban cultural center, Cayo Hueso, in Havana during the summer abroad course in Cuba. (Photo by Will Schmenner)

Cuba libre

The complexities of Cuba’s history and the response by artists were the focus of the summer abroad course “Penn-in-Havana: Visual Culture and Public Art in Cuba,” taught by art historian Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw, and funded by a Making a Difference in Diverse Communities grant.

Louisa Shepard

What happens to the brain after a traumatic injury?
TBI Football Research Senior Justin Morrison (left) and researcher Michael Sangobowale with Ebony Cook, a patient in for a follow-up visit after her apartment ceiling caved in on her. It’s part of an ongoing clinical trial on traumatic brain injury that sees patients five times each, at 72 hours following injury, then again at two weeks, three weeks, six months, and a year later.

What happens to the brain after a traumatic injury?

Two undergrads interning with Penn Medicine’s Ramon Diaz-Arrastia spent the summer looking for biomarkers in the blood of TBI patients, and studying whether the generic form of Viagra might help promote recovery after such an injury.

Michele W. Berger

Campus fire safety: What you need to know
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Firefighters from the Philadelphia Fire Department stand by during the live side-by-side dorm “burn” on Hamilton Field. All of Penn’s on-campus residences feature sprinkler systems. Photo by Stacy Ritchey, Division of Public Safety 

 

 

Campus fire safety: What you need to know

As part of its annual Life-Saving Measures event, the Division of Public Safety hosted a live side-by-side controlled “burn” of a dorm room model on Hamilton Field to show how “Sprinklers Save Lives.”
Take Your Professor to Lunch program fosters student-faculty relationships, spurs serendipity
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Inside Hill House Cafe, Penn students eat lunch and chat with President Amy Gutmann, professor of political science and professor of communication, as part of the “Take Your Professor to Lunch” program.

Take Your Professor to Lunch program fosters student-faculty relationships, spurs serendipity

Students gathered for lunch with President Amy Gutmann on Tuesday as part of New Student Orientation & Academic Initiatives’ ongoing “Take Your Professor to Lunch” program.
The College of Liberal and Professional Studies launches online bachelor’s degree
Penn’s College of Liberal and Professional Studies launches online bachelor’s degree

The College of Liberal and Professional Studies launches online bachelor’s degree

The School of Arts and Sciences’ College of Liberal and Professional Studies has launched a new program that, for the first time, makes an Ivy League bachelor’s degree accessible online. Beginning in the fall of 2019, the Penn LPS Online platform will offer a fully-accredited, online education for working adults and other non-traditional students.
Penn Reading Project gets freshmen on the same page
Professors Michael Weisberg and David Fox leading Penn Reading Project

Michael Weisberg, professor and chair of philosophy, and David Fox, director of New Student Orientation, lead the discussion with the freshmen class on the Penn Reading Project and the Provost’s “Year of Why?”

Penn Reading Project gets freshmen on the same page

The Penn Reading Project, in its 28th year, is designed to bring the freshmen class together on one academic project. The Class of 2022 read Thornton Wilder’s “The Bridge of San Luis Rey,” as part of the Provost’s “Year of Why?”

Louisa Shepard