Unlikely Camper
Brothers and allies.
Close Your Eyes
“Three months, I told myself.”
Uh-oh
How every fatal plane crash echoes the first one, in 1908.
Financial Aid Upgrade
Quaker Commitment extends aid eligibility.
How the University Drives the Economy
Latest report puts Penn’s benefit to region at $37 billion.
Jewels of the Nile
The story of Penn’s squash success starts in Egypt.
Pavilion Becomes Clifton Center
Pavilion renamed the Clifton Center after $120 million donation.
Arts Calendar
May|Jun 2025
Architectural Afterlives
Fleeting witnesses to a vanished past.
Department of Plunder
Wartime tale of parallel lives.
The Gilded-Age Medievalist
A new life of Henry Charles Lea.
Briefly Noted
May|Jun 2025
When in Rome
Darius Arya C’93 roams Rome (and more) for his popular YouTube channel.
Crown Jewel
Marcia Budet GAr’10 GFA’10 designs jewelry instead of buildings.
The Proof Is in the Dumpling
Jen Liao C’12 started a business making the dumplings she wanted to eat.
Alumni Notes
May|Jun 2025
Obituaries
May|Jun 2025
Mar|Apr 2025
Vol. 123, No. 4
Foundational Work
From the Editor | Housing assistance, transplant history, highway to the ’60s.
Building Blocks
Rebuilding Together Philadelphia is repairing homes one at a time to strengthen neighborhoods and build generational wealth.
The New World of Organ Transplantation
Penn’s latest advances and future hopes for saving and improving lives through transplant technologies build on a foundation laid down by pioneering surgeons and scientists going back to the 1960s.
Letters
Mar|Apr 2025: “Course” ratings, celiac disease, Bell and Bednarik, and more.
The Milan Affair
“Naturally I suggested that Scott just pee out the window.”
Sweet Chariots
Witold’s wheels.