Once hailed as a “landmark” achievement, alumnus and Penn English professor Robert Spiller’s Literary History of the United States now feels not just dated but fundamentally misguided. What happened?[...]

Greg Dunn Gr’11’s paintings show the brain’s beauty.[...]

Harry Mendell EE’76 GEE’76 invented digital sampling.[...]

Father and son, and Mask and Wig. The Gypsy in My Soul.[...]

Isabel Lizardi C’05 “plays” with paint and light at Bare Conductive.[...]

Matt Simon C’02 supports his Ping-Pong career by being a doctor.[...]

Page Talbott G’76 Gr’80 is remodeling Franklin, and his museum.[...]

Farah Jimenez C’90 serves the homeless at the People’s Emergency Center.[...]

Sept|Oct 2013[...]

Sept|Oct 2013[...]

Sept|Oct 2013[...]

By Bernice Gordon FA’35[...]

Paralyzed from the neck down by a gunshot wound in 2011, Kevin Neary C’04 can’t help imagining that someday a medical miracle might allow him to walk again. [...]

The dangers and rewards of giving more than you get. An excerpt from Give and Take by Wharton professor Adam Grant. Plus: Interview with the author.[...]

Can an unpredictably centrist talk-show host with a yen for “nothing” really have an impact on the national discourse?[...]

What happens when a playwright best known for a one-man show about a seriously overdue library book gets involved in creating a blockbuster musical about an iconic superhero? In one word: Kapow![...]

Hurrah! Hurrah! Songs of Penn. [...]

Julie Beren Platt C’79 is the new president of Penn Alumni.[...]

Bow-tied, big-league sports-reporter Ken Rosenthal C’84.[...]

Sujatha Baliga L’99 is a leading expert on restorative justice.[...]