Wasser World
Julian Wasser’s photographic love affair with Hollywood began more than half a century ago. He’s been loving and hating and shooting it ever since.
The Dhaka Studio
Eight years ago, Stephen Kieran and James Timberlake turned their Penn Design senior studio upside down. They demoted design in favor of research, gave aesthetics a back seat to social science and data analysis, and took all their students to Bangladesh.
Beyond the Golden Touch
There’s a lot more to King Midas than history’s most celebrated case of “be careful what you wish for.” Drawing on decades of excavations at Gordion in modern Turkey, a blockbuster exhibition at the Penn Museum illuminates the world of ancient Phrygia’s greatest ruler.
Hall Call
Members of Penn's 1970-71 men's basketball team honored with Big 5 Hall of Fame induction, reminisces about historic season.
Off the Beat: To ICCAs and Back
This student a cappella group has had a packed spring semester, from regional competitions to filming for a reality show.
Mattis Madness
On a historic day for Penn sports, Wharton senior Sam Mattis took a big step toward the Olympics with a record-setting discus throw.
Alumna Selected as Yale Younger Poet
Airea D. Matthews C’94 will have the next book (Volume 111) in the prestigious Yale Series of Younger Poets.
Happy Reunion
Spurred on by a feature in this magazine, the central players of Penn's storied 1965-66 basketball team reunited for the first time in 50 years.
Shining Moment
After winning its second Ivy League women's basketball championship in three years at Princeton, Penn returned home for a special net-cutting celebration at the Palestra.
Rookie Revolution
Thrown right into the fire, Penn's talented freshmen are showing that better days may lie ahead for the men's basketball program: "I think the future is going to be very good to us."
$80 Million to Restore Hill’s “Wow!”
Hill House to get $80 million renovation.
Islamic Chaplain: Fight Hatred With New Narratives
Penn’s Islamic chaplain Kameelah Rashad C’00 GEd ’01.
Class of 2016 Gets Broadway Star
Hamilton’s Lin-Manuel Miranda to be Commencement speaker
“Historic Philadelphia,” Rethought
Historic preservation studio challenges neighborhood assumptions.
Y-Prize Gets Beery
Y-Prize winners get $10,000 in beer money.
An Ethnographer Among the Hyenas
Q&A on sociologist David Grazian’s American Zoo.
Cancer Moonshot Launched by Mission Control
Biden’s cancer “moonshot” lifts off at Penn.
Throwing Weight
Sam Mattis’ Olympic hopes; women’s lacrosse is “on a mission.”
Scoreboard
From Dec. 8, 2015 to Feb. 7, 2016
The Small, Good Stories
The Penn Cultural Heritage Center was launched to provide a forum for an “intellectual discussion” of the meaning of heritage and the role of communities in preservation efforts. Then came the Syrian civil war and the rise of ISIS.
That Roosevelt
Penn Law professor, legal scholar, and novelist Kermit Roosevelt III is doing his best to live up to the family name—including, in his latest book, by tackling cousin Franklin’s executive order authorizing the confinement of more than 100,000 Japanese Americans in internment camps during World War II.
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?
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.