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What Kids Want (to Watch)

21 Dec 2016
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Twenty-five years after she helped launch the original Nicktoons, Linda Simensky is still deciding what millions of kids watch on TV—and teaching Penn students who grew up loving the shows she developed.
Perry World House

27 Oct 2016
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Penn unveils its ambitious global policy center—which, in the run-up to the US presidential election, has wasted no time hosting a Who’s Who in the realm of world affairs.
Legal Zoom-In

27 Oct 2016
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Law professor and alumna Regina Austin loves star-attorney Perry Mason, but the students in her year-long Visual Legal Advocacy seminar are learning to make their cases from behind the camera.
Unconventional

27 Oct 2016
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Photographer Arthur Drooker C’76 has trained his lens on American Ruins and Lost Worlds. His new collection, Conventional Wisdom, covers his strangest territory yet.
Hands On History

27 Oct 2016
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For the past three decades, the Raab family has been buying and selling rare documents. It’s a uniquely personal way of learning—and sharing—history.
Chasing Miracles

27 Oct 2016
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The author wanted to know why the stem-cell treatments that worked so well for her hobbled dog aren’t being used to put the spring back in humans’ steps. Researchers at Penn’s Institute for Regenerative Medicine explained—and shared some of their own, measured, progress toward successful therapies.
Method Inventor

25 Aug 2016
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With an innovation portfolio that ranges from medical devices to folding bicycles to social-impact enterprises to junk food, Wharton professor Karl Ulrich has every justification to bask in entrepreneurial mystique. Only that’s exactly what he sets out to demolish in the classroom.
Director Gone Bad

25 Aug 2016
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Mean Girls director Mark Waters C’86 is taking a shot at R-rated comedy with Bad Santa 2 this Thanksgiving—and still trying to figure out his place in ever-evolving Hollywood.

Gazetteer

Standing Athwart History

21 Feb 2018
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Annenberg’s Al Felzenberg on his William F. Buckley bio.
Team-Oriented Robots

21 Feb 2018
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$27 million to develop “teams of robots” for US Army.
Engagement Warriors

19 Dec 2017
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At 25, Netter Center focuses on the future.
New College House West

19 Dec 2017
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$163 million New College House West announced.
Projecting Race

19 Dec 2017
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Series revives and reexamines “race films.”
The Mistake Hormone

19 Dec 2017
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Testosterone and decision-making: speed over accuracy.
The Underground Railroad, Reimagined

19 Dec 2017
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Novelist Colson Whitehead on The Underground Railroad.
Mungermen Forever

19 Dec 2017
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Mungermen share memories.
Enemy of the State

27 Oct 2017
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How should a free press behave? And how shouldn’t it?
Earthworkers

27 Oct 2017
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North American moundbuilders at the Penn Museum.
From 10th-Grade English to Trigger Warnings

27 Oct 2017
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Two new books by Penn faculty explore how free expression on campus became so fraught and what to do about it.
PennDesign at Manitoga

27 Oct 2017
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Architecture students were artists-in-residence at Manitoga estate.

Alumni News

Resting Place

20 Dec 2018
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“The burning tree acted as an otherworldly torch.”
A Woman of Letters

20 Dec 2018
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Faithful correspondent.
Still Sharp

20 Dec 2018
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Penn alumni fencers led Team USA to the Veteran World Championship.
Taking Care

20 Dec 2018
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Chief Wellness Officer Benoit Dubé GM’01.
“We’re the Stewards of This Wonderful Collection”

20 Dec 2018
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Mark Kocent C’82 GCP’91 GFA’91 named University architect.
$25 Million for Entrepreneurship Center

20 Dec 2018
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$25 million for entrepreneurship center Tangen Hall.

Arts & Culture

Cret Day

23 Aug 2018
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Architect Paul Cret’s legacy in Philadelphia.
Music in the Key of Green

23 Aug 2018
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Presenting the Morris Arboretum Suite.
Briefly Noted

23 Aug 2018
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Sept|Oct 2018
Arts Calendar

23 Aug 2018
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Sept|Oct 2018
National Book Award Finalist Is Also A Penn Writer-in-Residence

20 Jul 2018
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Carmen Maria Machado has published her first short story collection—and it's been winning awards ever since.
Thirty Years of Screen Credits

01 Jul 2018
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From Wes Anderson movies to "Old Jews Telling Jokes"—and now his first feature film as a writer and director—Sam Hoffman C'88 reflects on the 30 years he's spent working in movies and TV.