April 17, 2014

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Penn alum aiding MH370 search

Mike Glynn, a former Penn lacrosse player, is now a naval aviator in Australia BY MIKE TONY Senior Staff Writer You may not know Mike Glynn, but you definitely know what he’s been up to. Following a four-year Penn men’s lacrosse career that he now calls “unremarkable,” the Class of 2008 graduate became a U.S. naval aviator and is now deployed to Perth, Australia to search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, which has been missing since March 8. Glynn has been flying one of two P-8 Poseidons deployed to Perth in the last three weeks. For the last two weeks, Glynn has been supporting search and recovery operations in Perth as well. We caught up with Glynn to learn about his path to participating in the largest multinational air-sea search in history and where the search is headed next. Daily Pennsylvanian: What inspired you to join the U.S. Navy and become a Naval Aviator Mike Glynn: I’ve wanted to be a naval aviator since a very early age. I have very clear memories of watching the Blue Angels perform when I was 7 at an air show. The desire has never left. As I got older, I began flying and earned my pilot’s license during college. I wanted to experience a dynamic, tactically focused type of flying that is only accessible in military aviation. DP: When did you join? SEE GLYNN PAGE 13

Two women were elected to replace the current male chair and vice BY VICTORIA MOFFIT Staff Writer

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Penn alum Mike Glynn flies during visual search operations in Perth, Australia in hopes of finding signs of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, which went missing on March 8. Glynn became a naval aviator after his four years at Penn, where he was a member of Penn’s ROTC.

Penn Law website and FactCheck.org nominated for Webby Awards Both Penn-affiliated websites were nominated for the awards last year BY MAYA RAWAL Staff Writer Two Penn-affiliated websites were once again nominated for Webby Awards last week. Penn Law School’s website and FactCheck .org, a n A nnenberg Public Policy Center project, were

Mental health addressed at GAPSA elections

nominated for the Law and Politics categories of websites, respectively, last Wednesday. Nominees can win one of two awards that The New York Times refers to as the “Internet’s highest honor”: a Webby Winner, given by a panel of judges, or a People’s Voice award, which is chosen by online voters. Of the five nominees for the Law categor y, Penn Law is the only school nominated. Last year, the school won the People’s Voice

Mental health initiatives were a major point of discussion in last night’s elections for the chair and vice chair of the Graduate and Professional Student Assembly, during which two women were elected to positions currently held by men. Justine Sefcik — a fourth-year nursing doctoral student and GAPSA’s current vice chair for research students — was elected as chair, with responsibilities that include serving as GAPSA’s primary advocate to the University administration. The chair sits on various University committees, including the Board of Trustees. In candidate speeches made to the GAPSA General Assembly, as well as in the questionand-answer periods following these speeches, mental health was a topic of concern. Sefcik expressed that she plans to address mental health in her role as chair. “As a nurse, I feel that mental health is very important, and I think this year students haven’t had as big of a voice as administration in deciding which direction we’re moving in for mental health,” Sefcik said in response to a question from the General Assembly. “There’s a lot of groups that popped up and want to work on this SEE GAPSA PAGE 3

Helping the creative actually create

award for the same category. This is its second consecutive nomination. “Speaking to students within the law school community, it seems like they’re pretty excited about it,” Penn Law Associate Dean of Communications Steven Barnes said. “We try to put together a site that would be a great information resource to our various audiences ... and that allow[s] a great amount of engagement with our constituents SEE WEBBY PAGE 2

SENIOR DESIGNS

You’re gonna need a better boat

One senior design team designed a boat to make ocean exploration more affordable

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Entrepreneur Scott Belsky, who is also a vice president of Adobe, was hosted on Wednesday by the Wharton Management Club. Fast Company has called him one of business’s most creative.

BY FOLA ONIFADE Staff Writer The ocean covers 73 percent of the earth and only 5 percent of it has been explored. One senior design team is trying to change this. Engineering senior Sawyer Brooks attributes the lack of exploration to the extremely high costs of sending out ships, crews and scientists to collect data from the ocean. “Our goal is to reduce costs by creating solar powered boats to explore more of the ocean,” Brooks said. “It will help scientists to understand biodiversity weather patterns [and] oil companies

Behance founder Scott Belsky wants to organize the world’s creators Courtesy of Sawyer Brooks

The senior design team behind SPARC, Sawyer Brooks, Cristina Sorice, Sebastian Schloesser and Emily Samuelson have tested the boat on the Schuylkill River and in Pottruck’s Sheerr Pool. to deter oil leaks and detect pollutants in the water.” Brooks and Engineering senior Cristina Sorice came up with the idea last summer and formally began working on it in late September as a part of their senior design project,

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but they always envisioned it growing into something more long term. The team has since been selected to participate in the Cornell Cup USA, a competition sponsored by Intel which SEE BOAT PAGE 3

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BY JONATHAN BAER Contributing Writer Academic and professional interests are back in focus for students now that Spring Fling has come and gone. On Wednesday night, Wharton Management Club hosted Scott Belsky, co-founder of Behance, vice president of products and community at

Adobe and an investor in companies like Pinterest and Uber. More than 40 students gathered at Huntsman Hall to hear Belsky discuss how creativity and design have driven his career in business. “What has motivated me for the past eight years or so is this frustration with the creative community,” said Belsky, who was included in Fast Company’s 2010 “100 Most Creative People in Business” list. “[The creative community] is a fascinating industry, but also frustratSEE BELSKY PAGE 3

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