Arts Calendar
Nov|Dec 2016
November in Paris
Remembering the Paris terror attacks.
Cora Ingrum’s Legacy
She’s helped generations of minority engineering students—and at least one aspiring writer—pursue their dreams.
The Glastonbury Fix
“If the sacred Chalice Well could offer even a hint of healing, I had to get to it.”
Against Radical Disruption
Public schools need innovation—just not the kind reformers keep pushing.
Letters
Nov|Dec 2016: CA memories, Disneyland lessons.
E Pluribus, Polarization?
Political polarization less pronounced than partisans predict.
Flagship for Penn’s Other Campus
Pennovation Center opening: fabricating the future.
Convocation: “An Audition For Your Future Self”
Convocation: “Find your comfort zone, and then go beyond it.”
Eighteen Wheel Blues
Sociology’s Steve Viscelli on life as a long-haul trucker.
Leadership Program’s New Name, and the Complications of Compromise
$10 million gift for McNulty Leadership Program at Wharton.
Rebirthing the Revolution
History prof Michael Zuckerman C’61 on rethinking the Revolution.
Take Ivy, Take Two
33 to 40 offers a “snapshot of Penn at a very specific moment”
Scoreboard
From Aug. 28 to Oct. 9
Elite Expectations for a Championship Squad
Basketball: women look to repeat as Ivy champs, men to contend.
The Optimistic Realist
“Realist optimist” Brandon Copeland W’13’s NFL run.
Perry World House
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
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
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
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
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.