Virtual Alumni Weekend 2020*
Celebrating from a distance—until we can meet again.
Singing Across Social Distance
Penn alumni and student singers are continuing to make music during the pandemic—and getting creative with their videos of those performances.
Shielding the Frontlines
Meet the four alumni entrepreneurs who, after pausing their own ventures, are mass-producing PPE for local hospitals.
Beyond Sports
Gavin O’Connor C’86’s new film The Way Back isn’t about sports.
Doing Time
Sally Elk GFA’84 GFA’85 wants Eastern State to go beyond “Terror.”
Connecting Divides
Riaz Patel C’95 has an EPIC plan to bridge social divides.
Impatient Hope
“Anything was possible, because no one knew.”
Those Woodstock Summers
Looking back to where it all began.
I Quit
In praise of letting go, moving on.
Adventures in Social Media
“Pro-social” media maker Paul Falzone Gr’08.
City Shaper
K—A. Eugene Kohn Ar’53 GAr’57—tells KPF’s story.
The Edge
Walking the perimeter of Philadelphia.
Paper Man
Eric Jacobs has been at the Daily Pennsylvanian since articles were written on typewriters and layout was done by (actual) cutting and pasting. The newspaper’s longtime general manager is also a shared connection among every DP alum of the last 40 years. But this summer, he plans to leave the only job he’s ever had.
Dotdash Rising
After putting the familiar but failing website About.com out of its misery, Dotdash CEO Neil Vogel W’92 has managed to craft a thriving group of websites from the company’s wreckage.
Events
May|Jun 2020
Alumni Notes
May|Jun 2020
Obituaries
May|Jun 2020
Editing ‘Tiger King’
Cinema Studies alum Dylan Hansen-Fliedner C’14 helped edit 'Tiger King' into the smash-hit docuseries it became.
Head in the Clouds
Noah Kotlove W'13 developed a product for the "modern cannabis consumer."
Sparring Scientist
Federica Bianco C’03 G’07 Gr’10 is a professional boxer (and astrophysicist).
Surgical Bonds
Amber Hamilton C’16 and S. Robert Rozbruch C’85 share a bond.
Not-So-Secret History
John Sopko C’74 is fighting waste in Afghanistan—and with the Washington Post.
Man Behind the Monsters
James Warren (Taubman) C’52 has had some monster hits as a publisher.
Song for My Father
“We just listened and talked.”