Hope for Katherine Belle
How one family’s journey through the realm of rare disease led them to the newest frontier of precision genetic medicine.
Homecoming 2017
Our annual photo gallery. Plus: Alumni Award of Merit winners and citations.
Of Beneficent Buildings and Bedside Manners
Thomas S. Kirkbride M1832 wrote the book—literally—on the housing and treatment of the mentally ill in the 19th century.
Rifkin’s Next Revolution
Jeremy Rifkin W’67 launched his career as an activist by protesting the Vietnam War. Now he’s making perhaps his biggest impact yet advocating for a “third industrial revolution” to save the world from stagnating productivity and the ravages of climate change.
Theatre By Design
Sara Outing C'13 has already built a successful career in theatre set design—and she has the 2017 Barrymore Award nomination to prove it.
Events
Nov|Dec 2017
Alumni Notes
Nov|Dec 2017
Obituaries
Nov|Dec 2017
Slicing, Dicing, and Cutting
Kabir Akhtar C’96 is an Emmy-winning TV editor.
The Other Postpartum
Lauren Smith Brody C’99 has advice for moms returning to work.
A Marriage Primer
Jo Piazza C’02 is figuring out this whole marriage thing.
New Life from Old Ruins
Larry Coben Gr’12 is making site preservation sustainable.
My Rookie Season
New game, same competitive spirit.
Slamdance
The lure of lucha libre.
Finally, an EPIC at Penn
EPIC Conference: Pound, Williams, H. D., Moore.
New Hope for Sinus Infections
Blocking sweet-taste receptors could clear stuffy sinuses.
At the Center of It All
Bob Schoenberg has been leading Penn’s LGBT Center since before there even was one, really. As he retires after 35 years of caring counsel and fierce advocacy, the campus home he built is being renamed in his honor.
Tears, Music, Memories
Introducing the Robert Schoenberg Carriage House.
Everybody Comes to Casablanca
In film scholar Noah Isenberg C’89’s engaging investigation of “Hollywood’s Most Beloved Movie,” the lives of the émigré actors who made up most of the cast share the spotlight with the famous love triangle and wartime call to arms. Their stories also echo forward to our own era’s debates over the treatment of refugees and immigration policy.
Pausing Nature
When she needs more art supplies, Linda Stillman CW'70 plants flowers.
Alumni Notes
Sept|Oct 2017
Obituaries
Sept|Oct 2017
Events
Sept|Oct 2017
Morning Tweets and Arching Eyebrows: A Reporter’s Story
On the White House beat.