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Features

  • The Olden Bough

    22 Feb 2023
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    Humans have revered ancient trees for about as long as we’ve chopped down forests. What does that fraught relationship reveal about our past? And can it illuminate a path toward a more hopeful future?
  • A Life’s Calling

    22 Feb 2023
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    For Liz Theoharis C’98, activism has been a way of life—from assisting her parents with their justice work, to community service as a Penn undergrad, to cochairing the recent revival of Martin Luther King Jr.’s Poor People’s Campaign of 1968. The Presbyterian minister, social justice leader, and biblical scholar is committed to reframing the narrative around poverty and the poor while pushing for lasting policy changes.
  • Rich History, New Visions

    22 Feb 2023
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    At Penn Live Arts, the legendary Negro Ensemble Company is creating new work that explores this country’s racial tensions and challenges. A February world premiere, Mecca is Burning, brought together five playwrights to imagine how four Black families in Harlem might navigate a white-supremacist revolution.
  • Sir Henry Thornton, On and Off the Rails

    22 Feb 2023
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    Knighted by Britain for his work as the Allies’ “railroad czar” in World War I, the Penn alumnus and Pennsylvania Railroad veteran went on to remake the Canadian National Railways before the Great Depression, poor health, and scandal brought him low.
  • And the Band Played On

    19 Dec 2022
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    For 125 years, the Penn Band has been an omnipresent and energetic presence at sporting events, campus ceremonies, and whenever “Penn is out and about in the community.”
  • The Outsider’s Insider

    19 Dec 2022
    1
    If there is a crisis (and there have been a few lately), Andy Slavitt C’88 W’88 knows which expert to bring “in the bubble.” When he’s not taping his award-winning podcast, the former insurance executive and federal administrator has a day job:funding innovation in healthcare for those who need help the most. “I have one thing I care about,” he says. “Making this country better for the people who have been ignored for too long.”
  • Homecoming 2022

    19 Dec 2022
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    Our annual photo gallery. Plus: Alumni Award of Merit winners and citations.
  • Drawing Down the Lightning, Making the Moment

    07 Nov 2022
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    On her inauguration day as the University’s ninth president, Liz Magill shared a vision of even greater impact and influence for Penn’s next chapter, picnicked on Shoemaker Green with members of the Penn community and some favorite musicians, and hosted a wide-ranging conversation with Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan at a critical time for the institution.

Gazetteer

  • Remembering the True Legacy of MLK

    23 Feb 2023
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    Candlelight vigil and other observances.
  • Anger and Joy

    23 Feb 2023
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    MLK Lecture features 1619 Project creator Nikole Hannah-Jones.
  • Battling a Binging Brain

    23 Feb 2023
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    In pilot study, deep brain stimulation curbed binge eating.
  • Pottruck Center Turns 20

    23 Feb 2023
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    Pottruck Center celebrates 20 years of fitness with cake and more.
  • Orchestral Maneuvers

    23 Feb 2023
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    Philadelphia Orchestra archives coming to Penn Libraries.
  • GSE Grant Sets Record

    23 Feb 2023
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    $16.25 million to GSE for new leadership center and McGraw Prize.
  • Return to Sender

    23 Feb 2023
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    Law and medical schools withdraw from U.S. News rankings.
  • Pine Alpha

    23 Feb 2023
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    The Penn Museum’s piece of a 4,000-year-old conifer.
  • Franklin’s World

    19 Dec 2022
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    Zeke Emanuel finds more to say on Benjamin Franklin in online course.
  • 25 Years of 10 Lives

    19 Dec 2022
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    Feline kidney transplant program marks 25 years.
  • Homecoming Football, On Delay

    19 Dec 2022
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    Fossil Free Penn interrupts Homecoming football game at halftime.
  • “No Place for Unruly Women”

    19 Dec 2022
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    Drew Faust Gr’75 on the Penn women who “led the charge and led the change.”

Alumni News

  • The Cane and the Glory

    23 Feb 2023
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    An ex-jock confronts his longevity.
  • The Voice of AOC

    23 Feb 2023
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    Lauren Hitt C’13 is AOC’s communications director.
  • Superheroes in Scrubs

    23 Feb 2023
    1
    The Penn Vet and Wharton alumni remaking veterinary emergency care.
  • New Sheriff in Town

    23 Feb 2023
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    Susan A. Hutson C’89 is Louisiana’s first Black woman sheriff.
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    23 Feb 2023
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Arts & Culture

  • Arts Calendar

    23 Feb 2023
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  • Lost and Found

    23 Feb 2023
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    Penn’s lost and found Courbet landscape at Arthur Ross Gallery.
  • Walking The Edge

    23 Feb 2023
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    “Walking the Edge,” curated by photographer JJ Tiziou C’02.
  • The French Connection

    23 Feb 2023
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    An old painting and a new book unlock a family’s origins.
  • Briefly Noted

    23 Feb 2023
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  • Rich History, New Visions

    22 Feb 2023
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    At Penn Live Arts, the legendary Negro Ensemble Company is creating new work that explores this country’s racial tensions and challenges. A February world premiere, Mecca is Burning, brought together five playwrights to imagine how four Black families in Harlem might navigate a white-supremacist revolution.

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