Penn and Slavery
New studies detail how Penn benefited from slavery.
Online Undergraduates
LPS online bachelor’s degree is first in the Ivy League.
No Politics Is Local
Dan Hopkins on The Increasingly United States.
Beyond Labor: A Missing Piece in the Immigration Debate
Wharton study: immigrants boost investment and entrepreneurship.
Competing Visions of the Global Order
“Competing Visions of the Global Order” at Perry World House.
Making Destiny Together
Class of 2022 is one in a thousand.
School of Social Policy and Practice Names New Dean
New SP2 dean: Sara “Sally” Bachman.
The Electoral Road to Autocracy
“Democracies don’t die like they used to.”
Jeb Bush Nabs Presidential Professorship
Jeb Bush is a Presidential Professor of Practice for 2018–19.
Nanoparticles vs. Plaque
Baby teeth and nanoparticles spark advances.
Scoreboard
From Aug. 24 to Oct. 3
Title Defense
Basketball: new faces, high hopes.
Works of Hartt
In 1999, David Hartt shut down his art practice and left the galleries he’d been working with. He took the next 10 years away from all of it. Now he's teaching at Penn and exhibiting around the world—including in three new exhibitions that just opened in a span of 25 days.
Who is America?
GOP nativists have taken aim at a fundamental principle defining the American republic: birthright citizenship. Their legal rationale has an unlikely source: a liberal professor who totally opposes their aims. And that’s just where things start to get interesting with Constitutional law scholar Rogers Smith.
Wordsworth’s American Champion
Nearly two centuries ago, Penn professor Henry Hope Reed put William Wordsworth on America’s cultural map. More or less forgotten today (make that more), Reed was an impressive scholar whose enthusiasm for Wordsworth and English Romanticism helped shape the nation’s literary values.
Rush on the Mind
A focus on mental illness was a constant throughout the multi-faceted career of Benjamin Rush, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, prolific writer, longtime Penn faculty member, and the most prominent—and controversial—physician of his day.
David Ebert C’82, Joel Litvin W’81 Are a Voice for the Voiceless
When David Ebert C’82 and Joel Litvin W’81 discovered a shared passion for animal protection and the law, they joined forces to found the Animal Defense Partnership.
Confirmation and Its Discontents
Anita Hill on 1991 and 2018.
Meredith Wooten G’06 Gr’13 Puts First-Gen Lens on GSC
Meredith Wooten G’06 Gr’13's directorship at the Graduate Student Center brings a long, formative relationship with the University full circle.
The Vent Man
The Vent Man was somewhat of a fixture on Penn's campus in the 1970s, silent but constant. Four decades later, David Bolger D'79 is still thinking about him.
‘This Is A Place I Love’
Amidst men's basketball assistant coach shakeup, Nat Graham C'97 earns a well-earned promotion.
Jennifer Egan C’85 Returns to Penn as Artist-in-Residence
As part of that title, Egan will teach a course on some of her favorite novels and appear at several events throughout the academic year.
The Path to Peace in a Tribe of Tribes
Restitching the dis-United States.
Tuition and Aid for 2018–19
2018–19 costs up 3.8 percent; financial aid up 5.25 percent.