Analytics at Wharton Launches
$15 million for Analytics at Wharton to coordinate big data initiatives.
Lacrosse Legacies
Lacrosse’s historic season; crew’s surprise championship.
Scoreboard
From April 6 to June 6
Indigenous Ethnologist
Gladys Tantaquidgeon CTT’29
Penn Relays at 125
The country’s oldest and largest track meet continues to draw world-class athletes, big crowds, an army of loyal volunteers, and a whole lot of Jamaicans.
Running the Show
Nkechi Okoro Carroll C’98 worked as an economist for 14 years before making her mark as a writer in Hollywood. Now she has the top job on the CW network’s All American. One of the very few women of color to hold the title showrunner, she’s determined to broaden opportunities for others and to diversify the medium’s characters and messages—while building her own TV empire along the way.
Native Pride
For 25 years, Penn’s small Native American community has tried to grow its presence on campus, through lively powwows, Ivy League conferences, and student and faculty outreach. But trying to shed the “feeling of being invisible” has been a perennial struggle.