$21 Million for Basser Center for BRCA
$21 million to Basser Center to fight BRCA-related cancers.
The New Provost
Provost pick: alumnus and law professor Wendell Pritchett Gr’97.
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.
Alumni Notes
May|June 2017
Obituaries
May|June 2017
Events
May|June 2017
Screen-Player
Scott Neustadter C’98’s latest screenplay is The Disaster Artist.
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.
Not Here
Life, after death.
Every Time We Say Goodbye
“We are not to meet again.”
The Power of Play
Working vacation.
House Dentist
From Holocaust survivors, to stroke victims, to the garden-variety centenarian next door, Alisa Kauffman’s patients have one thing in common: an inability to travel to a dentist’s office. So she brings her practice into their living rooms, bedrooms, and kitchens.
The Serene Strategist
To her mother, alumna Alice Paul was a “mild-mannered girl”; another observer compared her demeanor to “the quiet of a spinning top.” Her leadership in the fight to get US women the vote was a remarkable mix of unyielding commitment and savvy politics.
Danke Schoen, Wayne
Meet the Penn alumna who opened for Wayne Newton this month in Beverly Hills—and see footage from her performance.
Witness to a Demolition
Elaine Simon’s photographs “capture the stages of demolition as a way to remember the site and make a statement about cycles of destruction, displacement, and development.”
Events
March|April 2017
Alumni Notes
March|April 2017
Obituaries
March|April 2017
Taking Casualties
Charles Newhall III C’67 wrote about Vietnam and after in Fearful Odds.
Showing Their Animal Magnetism
Penn alumni star in Animal Planet’s Life at Vet U.
The Musical Man
Mark Kaufman C’89’s key to musicalizing a movie: does it sing?