Street Fighter
“Gridlock Sam” Schwartz is an icon in New York’s century-long war with traffic. Can his final campaign reshape the city’s transportation future?
The Peace Children of Syria
Art can’t provide a way out of tragedy, but perhaps a way through.
Readin’, Writin’, Revolution
With the Minerva Project, Ben Nelson W’97 is out to “build the world’s greatest university from scratch.” Should Penn—and other top-tier schools—be worried?
March Madness Missed
What’s more frustrating than playing Ivy League men’s basketball in the same era as Bill Bradley? Winning the University’s first official Ivy championship the year after he graduated, and then being kept out of postseason play because of a fight between the League and the NCAA. Fifty years later, Penn’s 1965-66 squad still wonders what might have been.
‘From Away’
In coastal Maine, the Tepler family—including dad Sheldon L'81, mom Denise C'78 G'81, and daughter Maya C'11—have opened their home to two Burundian asylum-seekers. Now Maya is making a documentary about the experience, titled 'From Away.'
Choosing Paper
Through a West Philly-based, non-profit print shop and zine library called The Soapbox, several alums are putting paper first.
Alumni Notes
Jan|Feb 2016
Obituaries
Jan|Feb 2016
Events
Jan|Feb 2016
Refuge from the Storms
Chris George C’77 is helping settle Syrian refugees in the US.
The Oyster Is Her World
Stephanie Tramdack Cash WG’78 left her desk for an oyster farm.
Songs for All Reasons
Nyles Lannon C’95 makes a living in music.
Having It All and Keeping It Too
Lisa Green C’82’s legal guide for women, On Your Case.
Of Monsters and Men
James Mundie CGS’97 documents “interesting people” in Exhibitionists.
March on the North Shore Suburbs
“We did do some good.”
The Road to Liberation
Getting to November 26, 1944.
Renewing Penn Dental’s Main Clinic
$10 million Schattner gift will renovate main dental clinic.
The Shapes of Things to Come
Haresh Lalvani Gr’81 believes there’s a universal code for architecture and sculpture—a “morphological genome” that determines the shape of built structures, similar to the way that DNA shapes living things. And he’s well into the process of decoding it.
Homecoming 2015
Our annual photo essay. Plus: Alumni Award of Merit winners and citations.
Life Behind the ‘Wicked’ Stage
Jonah Platt C'08, now starring in 'Wicked,' pulls back the Broadway curtain.
Peeling Back the Vines
An exhibit at the Penn Library is painting a fuller picture of 'Madeline' author Ludwig Bemelmans.
Alumni Notes
Nov|Dec 2015
Obituaries
Nov|Dec 2015
Flying Flotsam
Window, Nov|Dec 2015