Tungsten Temple
Mixed use, Dhaka-style.
Wasser World
Julian Wasser’s photographic love affair with Hollywood began more than half a century ago. He’s been loving and hating and shooting it ever since.
The Dhaka Studio
Eight years ago, Stephen Kieran and James Timberlake turned their Penn Design senior studio upside down. They demoted design in favor of research, gave aesthetics a back seat to social science and data analysis, and took all their students to Bangladesh.
Alumna Selected as Yale Younger Poet
Airea D. Matthews C’94 will have the next book (Volume 111) in the prestigious Yale Series of Younger Poets.
Events
March|April 2016
Alumni Notes
March|April 2016
Obituaries
March|April 2016
Gardens of Earthy Delights
Matthew Rader WG’11 cultivates the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society.
Studying—and Standing in the Way of—Extremism
Brian Levin C’89 knows a scary amount about all kinds of extremism.
Presence
John Doman C’66 is still exercising his acting muscle.
Memorializing the Civil Rights Movement
Beverly Robertson ran the National Civil Rights Museum.
Ghosts of Segregation
Barren campus. Without Regard to Sex, Race, or Color.
Behind the Bamboo Camera
“Father of Philippine Independent Cinema” Kidlak Tahimik WG’67.
When the Answer Is C) None of the Above
“Middlesex meets Mean Girls” in YA novel None of the Above.
Out of Texas
Paul Christensen Gr’73’s “A West Texas Marriage.”
Ghosting for Gerald
Gerald’s story, and mine.
Next Stop, Paradise
“That old promise of bliss.”
Uber Gridlock
Uber and VIM.
Islamic Chaplain: Fight Hatred With New Narratives
Penn’s Islamic chaplain Kameelah Rashad C’00 GEd ’01.
Street Fighter
“Gridlock Sam” Schwartz is an icon in New York’s century-long war with traffic. Can his final campaign reshape the city’s transportation future?
The Peace Children of Syria
Art can’t provide a way out of tragedy, but perhaps a way through.
Readin’, Writin’, Revolution
With the Minerva Project, Ben Nelson W’97 is out to “build the world’s greatest university from scratch.” Should Penn—and other top-tier schools—be worried?
March Madness Missed
What’s more frustrating than playing Ivy League men’s basketball in the same era as Bill Bradley? Winning the University’s first official Ivy championship the year after he graduated, and then being kept out of postseason play because of a fight between the League and the NCAA. Fifty years later, Penn’s 1965-66 squad still wonders what might have been.
‘From Away’
In coastal Maine, the Tepler family—including dad Sheldon L'81, mom Denise C'78 G'81, and daughter Maya C'11—have opened their home to two Burundian asylum-seekers. Now Maya is making a documentary about the experience, titled 'From Away.'