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	Freshman thrower Theresa Picciallo (third from right) has bounced back after suffering a severe elbow injury in her senior year of high school.

Theresa Picciallo has been a revelation for the Quakers as they look to compete for an Ivy Championship outdoors. The Upper Saddle River, N.J., native needed only two collegiate meets to break Penn’s 15-year old indoor shot put record, which she did with a throw of 14.11 meters in early January.



	Students work a fruit stand at the now-closed Drew Elementary School in the city. They are using a Youth Urban Mobile Market table, selling fruit and smoothies. Read the full story here.

Agatston Urban Nutrition Initiative’s launched student-supported Fruit Stands. Here, Penn students work with public school students to prepare and sell fruit, fruit salads and smoothies to their classmates during the school day.


Palestra photos for Hinkle Fieldhouse comparison column.

Over the course of these 31 games, many words have been spent on the Quakers’ ability to stay energized. But the Red and Blue, Hicks in particular, fed off of the Palestra crowd against Princeton.



	Engineering senior James Senese designed a device that would allow the rowers to control the amount of an oar in the water.

Jim Senese, Engineering senior on the Heavy Weight Crew Team, has chosen to build a device — which expands like a telescope — that will be able to shift oars outward and inward. The system is similar to that of gears on a bike.


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On Tuesday, the Pennsylvania General Assembly’s House Judiciary Committee nearly unanimously confirmed the bill that was introduced the day before by Representative Michael Vereb (R-Montgomery). Vereb aims to send it to the Senate as soon as next week.



Oxford Professor Richard Dawkins speaking at the Annual Oration of the Philomathean Society

Richard Dawkins — evolutionary biologist and former Oxford University professor — addressed a crowd of about 1,500 with a lecture titled “Proof, Science and Skepticism” for the Philomathean Society’s Annual Oration, in celebration of the group’s 200th anniversary.