Two Penn students show affection near Robert Indiana’s LOVE statue on Locust Walk.

Maureen Rush, vice president for public safety, joined Penn after 18 years with the Philadelphia Police Department. "Public Safety is always sort of at the heart of any major issue that’s going on, whether it’s a preventive issue or it’s a crisis issue,” she says. “My personality fits right into that kind of calling.”

Last fall, Penn’s School of Nursing greatly expanded students’ simulation experience. The new Helene Fuld Pavilion for Innovative Learning expands the school’s simulation space to 7,000 square feet, with rooms and berths designed to all measures of care settings.

The purpose of the Mars500 project is to gather data, knowledge, and experience to help prepare for a real mission to Mars. The six-man crew spent 17 months in an isolation facility in Moscow.

Two Penn professors have major roles in the Dark Energy Survey, an international collaboration to study the mysterious force using a new imaging system recently installed at an observatory in the Chilean Andes. 

PennPraxis, the applied research arm of the School of Design, has proposed a plan to give the Benjamin Franklin Parkway a long-overdue makeover, creating four parks that will offer enticing green spaces for picnicking, concerts, and other activities.

Penn Vet has a uniquely advanced facility for surgeons to perform cutting-edge procedures. The Minimally Invasive Surgical Suite has six high-definition video screens that can simultaneously display real-time X-rays, CT scans, an ongoing video of the surgery, the image from the arthroscopic camera, and even patient records.

Remy Manzi's past is full of memories that still haunt—memories of the 1994 Rwandan genocide in which as many as 1 million people were slaughtered by their fellow citizens in about 100 days. But Manzi has set out on a path of forgiveness and reconciliation. He is hopeful not only for himself as a new Penn student, but also for the future of his country.

Tukufu Zuberi, chair of the Department of Sociology, is making a name for himself on the film festival circuit. His film “African Independence” won the Best Documentary Film award and earned Zuberi the Best Director award at its world premiere at the 2013 San Diego Black Film Festival.

The sleek 78,000-square-foot glass and aluminum Krishna P. Singh Center for Nanotechnology, a joint venture between the School of Engineering and Applied Science and the School of Arts and Sciences, is scheduled to mark its official opening in November. But most of the construction is expected to be complete by the late summer.