Honorary Degrees
Honorands, Commencement 2015.
An MBA With Life in the Balance
Student speaker at Wharton Commencement is fighting for his life.
Entrepreneurship for Ex-Cons
PREP aims to help ex-inmates become entrepreneurs.
Doubling ICA’s Reach
ICA gets $10 million gift for curatorial program.
Heart Palpitations? Beware of Dr. Google
Risk factor: health-related websites track and share search data.
From Septimus Smith to September 11
Heard on Campus: “Are we living inside a pre-traumatic syndrome?”
Birdie Brothers
Penn ivy champions in golf.
Scoreboard
From April 6 to May 31, 2015
Bankoff’s Time
Is Vox Media CEO James Bankoff WG’96 a Henry Luce for the Digital Age?
“One of Those Prodigious Victorian Polymaths”
Horace Howard Furness was a hopeful ghost-hunter, a Penn leader with a gift for stimulating donors’ “pocketbook nerve”—and the founder of modern Shakespeare scholarship.
Alumni Weekend 2015
Our annual photo essay.
Pure to Applied
Unconventional mathematician Robert Ghrist is using one of mathematics’ most abstract disciplines—algebraic topology—to solve real-world problems in robotics and sensor networks.
May|June 2015
Volume 113, No. 5
Above Us Only … Sky?
Window, May|June 2015
How Swamp Thing Made the Scene at Van Pelt Library
Charles Soule C’96 killed Wolverine, brought Swamp Thing to Van Pelt.
Polishing a Hidden Gem in New Britain
Douglas Hyland C’70 put New Britain on the American art map.
Dogfish Head Gets a New Head
Nick Benz EAS’96 is CEO of Dogfish Head Craft Brewery.
Documenting the Unspeakable
Barbara P. Barnett GEd’71 documents Holocaust-survivors’ stories.
Alumni Notes
May|June 2015
Obituaries
May|June 2015
Events
May|June 2015
From Penn Medical Labs to Paperweight Legend
How an expert glassblower learned his art at Penn.
Grim and Grimmer
Terrible suffering, strikingly dissimilar. A Tale of Two Plantations.
When Resistance Is Beautiful
Departing MFA program coordinator Jane Irish on her art and life.