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Features

  • Time Stretcher

    24 Aug 2023
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    From swinging standards to avant garde nonconformism, Penn music professor, jazz drummer, and shapeshifting composer Tyshawn Sorey has won acclaim for “awesomely confounding” music whose “vulnerable virtuosity” can “open different portals in your depth of feeling and imagination.”
  • The PZ Project

    24 Aug 2023
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    From picture books to The Poet X, Penn Libraries are expanding and diversifying their holdings of books for young readers.
  • American Science’s Promoter-in-Chief

    24 Aug 2023
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    The great-grandson of a famous founder (of the nation and this University) and “boyhood’s friend” of the president of the Confederacy, educational reformer and onetime Penn professor Alexander Dallas Bache made his own reputation by championing the professionalization of American science in the mid-1800s.
  • Mann in the Middle

    23 Jun 2023
    1
    Michael E. Mann has been a central figure in the battle for the environment since the “hockey stick” graph made him a target for climate change deniers 25 years ago. Now on Penn’s faculty and heading the Center for Science, Sustainability, and the Media, he’s fending off a new generation of “inactivists” comprised of climate change deflectors on the right and doomists on the left to get out the message that it’s still within our power to save the planet.
  • Ode to Ira

    23 Jun 2023
    1
    To mark the Netter Center’s 30th anniversary, founding director Ira Harkavy C’70 Gr’79 trumpets the past and the future of Penn’s strategies to revitalize West Philadelphia—and alumni return to campus to tout Harkavy as an inspiration in the field of university–community engagement.
  • Birthday Blooms

    23 Jun 2023
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    A springtime celebration of the 90th year—and recent name tweak—of Penn’s Morris Arboretum and Gardens.
  • Alumni Weekend 2023

    23 Jun 2023
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    Our annual photo essay.
  • Alien Minds, Immaculate Bullshit, Outstanding Questions

    26 Apr 2023
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    College in the age of ChatGPT.

Gazetteer

  • Under Construction

    24 Aug 2023
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    What was going up and getting fixed this summer.
  • $10 Million Each for International Students and Healthcare Entrepreneurship

    24 Aug 2023
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    $20 million for international students and healthcare entrepreneurship.
  • New Dean at Annenberg

    24 Aug 2023
    2
    Annenberg professor Sarah Banet-Weiser named Annenberg dean.
  • New Majors and Concentrations at Wharton

    24 Aug 2023
    0
    Wharton programs meet growing interest in DEI and ESGB.
  • Insulin by the Leaf

    24 Aug 2023
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    Latest advance toward growing insulin in lettuce plants.
  • Admissions in Flux

    24 Aug 2023
    0
    Penn statement on the Supreme Court’s decision.
  • Food Meets Photography

    24 Aug 2023
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    High schoolers mix food culture and photography.
  • Let Your Voice Be Heard

    22 Jun 2023
    0
    A newly minted alumna reports from Franklin Field.
  • Heritage for Who?

    22 Jun 2023
    0
    PIK Professor Lynn Meskell on World Heritage Sites.
  • President’s Prizes Announced

    22 Jun 2023
    0
    President’s Prizes for Engagement and Innovation announced.
  • All Roads Lead to Pech

    22 Jun 2023
    0
    How Harold Dibble’s colleagues finished his “dream project.”
  • New Deans at GSE and Penn Carey Law

    22 Jun 2023
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    New deans at GSE, Carey Law, and—temporarily—Annenberg.

Alumni News

  • Small Town Dream

    24 Aug 2023
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    Ken Jaworowski CGS’00 is a first-time novelist at 55.
  • Vanishing Treasures

    23 Aug 2023
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    Lauren Meyer GFA’02 GFA’03 works to protect fragile historic structures.
  • The Jewish Netflix

    23 Aug 2023
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    Alumni “Mom, Pop, and a friend” operation launches “Jewish Netflix.”
  • Alumni Notes

    23 Aug 2023
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    Obituaries

    23 Aug 2023
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  • The Greatest Philadelphian Who Never Lived

    22 Jun 2023
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    Monuments | A podcast explores the unlikely triumph of Rocky (the statue).

Arts & Culture

  • The Letter A

    24 Aug 2023
    1
    A daughter and her father’s creative connection.
  • A Life with Others

    24 Aug 2023
    0
    An exhibition of Laurence Salzmann’s work at Penn Libraries.
  • Radical Passage

    24 Aug 2023
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    Radical in her youth: Drew Faust G’71 Gr’75 Hon’08’s Necessary Trouble.
  • Arts Calendar

    24 Aug 2023
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    24 Aug 2023
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    22 Jun 2023
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