Penn Gazette

Homecoming 2016

21 Dec 2016

Our annual photo gallery, plus two arts & culture anniversaries, and the Alumni Award of Merit winners and citations.

States Worse Than Death

01 Nov 2016

Patient preferences diverge from standard measures of care quality.

Sparking an Entrepreneurial Pulse in … North Korea

28 Oct 2016

Geoffrey See W’08 is spreading entrepreneurship in North Korea.

Breakthroughs in Superconductivity: An Accelerated Journey

28 Oct 2016

Anna Grassellino Gr’10’s breakthrough improved superconductivity.

The Fine Line Between Yea and Nay

28 Oct 2016

Yeasayer aims to be “unsettling, nostalgic, and novel.”

November in Paris

27 Oct 2016

Remembering the Paris terror attacks.

Cora Ingrum’s Legacy

27 Oct 2016

She’s helped generations of minority engineering students—and at least one aspiring writer—pursue their dreams.

The Glastonbury Fix

27 Oct 2016

“If the sacred Chalice Well could offer even a hint of healing, I had to get to it.”

Against Radical Disruption

27 Oct 2016

Public schools need innovation—just not the kind reformers keep pushing.

Letters

27 Oct 2016

Nov|Dec 2016: CA memories, Disneyland lessons.

Take Ivy, Take Two

27 Oct 2016

33 to 40 offers a “snapshot of Penn at a very specific moment”

Elite Expectations for a Championship Squad

27 Oct 2016

Basketball: women look to repeat as Ivy champs, men to contend.

Legal Zoom-In

27 Oct 2016

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.

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.