This summer was busy at Penn Vet. From top right of page 20: Student club VOICE (Veterinary Students as One in Culture and Ethnicity) hosted an open house for West Philadelphia students this summer, providing the opportunity to see first-hand what the world of veterinary medicine offers as a career possibility. Current Penn Vet students hosted the younger student groups to show them a day in the life of Ryan Hospital, which included X-ray examinations and the opportunity to check in on a patient of Dr. David Holt’s. Similarly, the Penn Vet Admissions team once again hosted the Summer VETS (Veterinary Exploration Through Science) program, which hosts high school- and college-aged students for week-long day camps. Here, Dr. Shelley Rankin and Michelle Traverse explain what students are seeing under the microscope, and Adelaide Paul gives the students a tour of the anatomy lab. In August, the University of Pennsylvania and Penn Vet sponsored the Penn Symposium in honor of Ralph L. Brinster, VMD, PhD, Richard King Mellon Professor of Reproductive Physiology at Penn Vet, and the more than five decades he has dedicated to research on the manipulation of the mammalian germline. Often regarded as the father of transgenesis, Dr. Brinster was the first veterinarian to receive the prestigious National Medal of Science. The Symposium welcomed more than 15 scientists from around the world as speakers.