Carlos Rodriguez, a librarian at the Biomedical Library, has served as a highly valued Penn IRB member for several years. Under FDA regulations, an IRB is an independent committee that is responsible for reviewing all human […]
3d print of the week: Detail from the Santi Luca e Martina cathedral

This week’s featured print is for a Penn Design seminar that looks at important Italian Baroque cathedrals with the aid of laser scans, 3D prints, and drawings. This is a piece of […]
3D print of the week: Homo naledi foot for “Introduction to Human Evolution” course

This week’s featured print is a foot of the hominin, Homo naledi. Like the Homo naledi skull featured a few weeks back in our Biomeditations blog post about artifacts, this foot will be used […]
Meet Richard: Nursing Librarian at work in the Penn Hospitals
As discussed in previous Biomeditations posts about my colleagues Sherry Morgan and Maylene Qiu, the staff of the Biomedical Library not only work with Penn students and faculty, but also partner with […]
3D print of the week: origami prototypes for robot swimmer design

The Biomedical Library’s 3D printing lab is once again proud to feature prints associated with innovative research featured in Penn Today. This week’s featured prints are prototypes for testing fluidic experiments for […]
Biomedical Librarians go global
Our Research & Knowledge Management Liaison Librarian, Manuel de la Cruz Gutierrez, will be traveling to Guatemala City as part of a delegation from the Guatemala-Penn Partnership (GPP). This delegation, including Perelman School […]
Biomeditations Book Talk Series: next featured author is Connie Ulrich, Jan. 24, 3pm, on her book, “Moral Distress in the Health Professions”
Join us in the Biomedical Library on Thurs., Jan. 24, 2019, from: 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm, for an informal discussion and Q+A with Dr. Connie Ulrich about her new book, Moral Distress […]
3D print of the week: key rack design
This week’s featured print is part of a new key rack design.The project is for an Integrated Product Design class focused on the design process and requiring the creation of multiple iterations […]
Visit the Biomedical Library’s Relaxation Room
The Biomedical Library has opened a Relaxation Room for the Penn community. The room is a quiet space intended for taking a break from studying or other potentially stressful daily activities. The […]
3D print of the week: neuronal morphology of the brain

This week’s featured prints are models of neuronal morphology in the cortex and thalamus in the brain. These models were commissioned by members of the Bhatnagar Lab to be used in a […]