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Greg Johnson
Managing Editor
Managing Editor
Greg Johnson covers Penn Athletics and Recreation, which includes sports teams, intramural sports, and the Penn Relays. He manages the annual Research at Penn publication, which highlights notable research from all 12 schools at Penn.
Ex-cons get little help upon release
On any given day, there are between 200,000 and 400,000 ex-prisoners living in Philadelphia, nearly 20 percent of the city’s population.
Working to end a war
Penn Law students Sarah Ashfaq, Niki Amalu, Colin McIntyre, Rachel Loftspring and Rushmi Ramakrishna outside the Amnesty Commission in Uganda.
Lisa Krause
Photo credit: Mark Stehle WHO SHE IS: Industrial Hygienist, Office of Environmental Health and Radiation Safety TIME AT PENN: 6 years
Putting an end to campus waste
Every May, thousands of Penn students go home for the summer, leaving behind furniture, appliances and other items they are unable to transport across the state, country or world. Glenn Stieffenhofer, associate director of housing operations, says “tons and tons of food, furnishings, lots of books, and lots of clothing” are thrown away.
Remembered Light
WHAT: “Remembered Light: Destruction and Resurrection, Glass Fragments from World War II,” a free exhibit at the Arthur Ross Gallery, 220 S.
Exhibit highlights local black pioneer
Photo credit: The Historical Society of Pennsylvania
Treatment for addiction-- in its many forms
World-renowned addiction expert Charles O’Brien, of Penn’s Charles O’Brien Center for Addiction Treatment, says addiction is a “physical change in the brain” that causes “compulsive drug-seeking behavior.”
Student Spotlight: David Helfenbein
Mark Stehle YOUTH VOTE: Since his early teens, the Political Science/Communications
How evolution has kept us alive
For nearly 7 million years, human beings have roamed the earth, evolving, adapting and surviving. Our brains have expanded, our bodies have grown and we are much better communicators.