Black Education Before Brown
Andrew Feiler W’84 documents the Rosenwald schools, which educated hundreds of thousands of African Americans in the Jim Crow South.
Calling It
How John Lapinski and a squad of Penn faculty and students backing him up on the NBC News Decision Desk navigated an election season that was unprecedented—and could set a pattern for the future.
Masked Move-In
Students return to campus housing.
Fostering Youth Voices
Rhodes Scholar Mackenzie Fierceton C’20 SPP’21.
Woods Tapped to Run Penn Museum
Christopher Woods named Penn Museum director.
A Place for Pluralism
Rabbi Mike Uram on leaving Hillel after 15 years.
The Radical and Universal King
Virtual MLK Lecture features Cornel West.
Preserving Civil Rights Heritage
New center aims to preserve civil rights sites.
No Permanent Conflict?
Tracing America and Iran’s 300-year history.
Harvard, Hair, and Harter’s Hunt for Perfection
Almost perfect—and neatly groomed.
Breaking Barriers
Trailblazing QB Marty Vaughn W’75 WG’81.
Inching Back to Normalcy
Housing open (with precautions), classrooms still closed for spring.
Penn Gives $100 Million for City Schools
Penn donates $100 million for Philadelphia schools.
Choice in the Time of COVID
Wolf Humanities Center picks “Choice” as theme in virtual year.
Vagelos Laboratory to Rise on Walnut Street
Design approved for Vagelos energy laboratory.
When Boys Grieve
Giving voice to grief over gun violence.
Emanuel Joins Biden COVID-19 Advisory Board
Zeke Emanuel among Biden’s COVID-19 advisors.
Running on Empty
How campus food trucks are faring.
A Winter Without Basketball
Cancellations continue.
Wellness Warriors
In response to a rash of suicides in recent years, Penn students have fought to take charge of their own mental health, creating new peer-to-peer counseling groups and collaborating more closely with the administration on wellness initiatives. Is it enough to combat the pandemic stresses, burnout, and social isolation that afflict “the loneliest generation”?
In Nursing We Trust
The past year has propelled America’s most trusted profession into the spotlight, with the World Health Organization’s designation of 2020 as the Year of the Nurse and Midwife followed by the unprecedented and continuing challenges posed by COVID-19. Penn Nursing alumni and faculty weigh in on coping with the pandemic and on nursing’s essential—and expanding—place in the healthcare system.
Heard at Homecoming
Voices from a fall celebration (wait for it) … like no other.
Still Putting on a Show
Multiple Penn theatre alumni have reunited for this interactive virtual musical.
Arts Preview: Homecoming at Home
Homecoming at Penn may look different this year, but it still includes a packed schedule of virtual arts-oriented programming.