Abigail Harrison: Pictures and Words
Harrison founded the Western Slope Photojournalism Workshop, an intensive, monthlong summer program for teenagers interested in visual storytelling.
Karen Brooks
Philly-based freelance writer/editor with more than 15 years of experience in feature, news, and development writing for print and online media. Specializing in nonprofit, higher education, and healthcare industries.
Suiting Every Body
Melanie Travis started her now-global swimwear company, Andie, after commiserating with colleagues about their struggle to find bathing suits for a lakeside work retreat in 2015.
Under the Hood
Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor Michael Platt studies how biology fuels social behavior.
Feeding an Open Mind
Penn student Grace Choi aims to redefine food insecurity on college campuses.
Joon Thomas: Master Calligrapher
Thomas jokes that after six decades working with reed pens and ink bottles, "At this point, I could do calligraphy with anything you handed to me."
Max Weintraub Named CEO of the Allentown Art Museum
A 1,700-mile move to a region once devastated by the death of the American steel and cement industries didn’t faze him—not even during a pandemic.
Will Berson: Oscar Nominee
Berson co-wrote the screenplay for "Judas and the Black Messiah," which tells the story of the 1969 assassination of 21-year-old Illinois Black Panther Party Chairman Fred Hampton.
Wear, Tear, and Repair
Mary Barbe, PhD, is exploring new treatments for repetitive strain injuries.
Curve Bender
As chief behavioral officer at Clover Health, Matt Wallaert leans into logic to change people's behavior.
Lessons From Ebola
Alex Chen, doctoral candidate in anthropology, is researching U.S. hospitals’ emerging disease preparedness.
Designer Health
Bon Ku launched Jefferson's Scholarly Inquiry Design Track as the nation’s first four-year design program for medical students. Enrolling in the program “is like majoring in medicine and minoring in design,” he explains.
Binge Swatching
Olivia Pagnotta calls her internship at URBN a “direction translation” of the skills she learned at Jefferson, where the textile design program prepares students for careers creating designs for printed, knitted, or woven fabrics to be used in everything from apparel to wallpaper to furniture upholstery.
Mixed Media: Carson Barnes
Using a meticulous process that involves photographing a statue from myriad angles, then combining the images in Photoshop and enhancing bone structure, musculature, clothing, and facial features, artist Carson Barnes finds his biggest challenge is producing a two-dimensional view of a three-dimensional subject.
Knowing the Half of It
Neal Flomenberg, MD, pioneered a two-step bone marrow transplant approach showing that a half-matched donor can be just as good as one who is fully matched.
A Spectrum of Possibilities
Caitlin Clements, a doctoral candidate in psychology, puts autism-related lore to the test.
The Biology of Addiction
Three decades after the Partnership for a Drug-Free America compared "your brain on drugs" to an egg sizzling in a frying pan, we have a much better understanding of how drugs actually alter the brain—thanks to researchers like Ellen Unterwald, PhD.
Minorities in Majority Spaces
Ashleigh Cartwright, doctoral candidate in sociology, examines how non-white students are selected and prepared to integrate historically white schools.
Speaking in Patterns
Anna Benjamin followed her BA in fine arts and education with an MFA in printmaking at the Rhode Island School of Design, but she focuses just as intently on papermaking and cutting—processes used by generations of Jews to create art for various occasions and rituals.
Bleeding Disorder Breakthroughs
A. Koneti Rao's research involving inherited platelet disorders has earned him renown as a pioneer in his own right.
Spotlight: Tracey Evans, MD
Studies have shown that up to three-quarters of Americans harbor negative attitudes toward people with lung cancer, believing that they must have brought the disease on themselves by smoking. Tracey Evans, MD, wants to squash that stigma.
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