Hospital of the Future
$1.5 billion, 17-story pavilion for patient care slated for Penn Tower site.
Smart, Simple
Two recent examples of Penn student-designed solutions to common problems.
Diamond Days
Baseball’s breakthrough season, softball standout Leah Allen C’17.
Scoreboard
From April 5 to June 6, 2017
Mapping the Human Journey
Combining old-school fieldwork and ethnography with up-to-the-minute gene-based analyses, Penn molecular anthropologist Theodore G. Schurr has helped shape our understanding of the movement of ancient peoples into the Americas.
The Psychonaut You Never Heard Of
John Lilly’s very long, very strange trip from Penn’s Medical School to the outer fringes of science—and consciousness.
Alumni Weekend 2017
Wet weather, high spirits. Our annual photo essay.
May|June 2017
Volume 115, No. 5
Letters
May|June 2017: Debating ADHD, celebrating the Palestra, arguing politics.
One (Last) Brief Shining Moment
Robert Kennedy speaking at the Palestra, 1968.
Just Three Words
From College Hall, May|June 2017
Alumni Notes
May|June 2017
Obituaries
May|June 2017
Events
May|June 2017
Arts Calendar
May|June 2017
Extracting Signatures from Crowds and Bananas
PennDesign’s Orkan Telhan’s “signature” work.
Celebrating Philadelphia Art
Woodmere Art Museum director William Valerio G’87 WG’04.
A Life Entangled: Shedding new light on Louis Kahn
A life of Kahn. You Say to Brick.
The Big Tent
Virginia Whelan FA’78 preserves history—large and small— in textiles.
Discovered—But Not Captured
Erica Armstrong Dunbar C’94 wrote about Ona Judge’s escape from slavery.
Playing at High Speed
Marc Ganzi W’93 has equal fun starting businesses and playing polo.
Political Graffiti
Signs of the times in Cuba.
Not Here
Life, after death.
Every Time We Say Goodbye
“We are not to meet again.”