The Numbers Game
Alumni who love baseball, numbers, and baseball numbers.
Sweet Within: Emblems of Canada
Sheldon Posen Gr’78 curates Canadian culture, and celebrates it in song.
If You Build It, They Will Grow
Andy Toy C’80 G’81 got Chinatown’s community center off the ground.
A Twitter Eclipse of the Heart
Language on Twitter can predict heart-disease risk in a community.
Blood Brothers
Grief, and a gift.
Lew’s Place
The only place to be.
Hacking The Great Distractor
“We can learn to use technologies more wisely.”
White Tower Power
White Towers Revisited at Architectural Archives.
The T-Cell Warriors
Four years after a tentative but tantalizing breakthrough against leukemia, Carl June and Bruce Levine C’84 have gone from the fringes of gene therapy to the center of a revolutionary approach to cancer treatment.
Journey from the East
More than 80 years ago, the paths of two Penn students—one from China, the other from New Jersey—intersected. The resulting friendship changed their lives, and those of their families.
Down By Law
Alice Goffman was a Penn undergraduate when she began doing the fieldwork for the project that became On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City. It’s an important, unsettling exploration of a serious issue. Just try not to focus on her.
Penn’s Ebola Fighters
They tend to be uncomfortable with terms like “fighter” and “hero,” but it’s hard to know what else to call these alumni and staff volunteers who’ve traveled to the heart of the epidemic to do whatever they can to help its victims.
Arts Videos for a Snow Day (or Not)
Whether you're home on a snow day or not, these Penn-related arts videos from around the web are worth watching.
The Hardest Roommate
Me time, pro and con.
Springtime in Beirut
Dancing on the edge in Beirut.
Chasing Foxcatcher
Tom Heller C’95 executive-produced the Oscar-buzzy Foxcatcher.
The Artful Hotelier
James Knowles GFA’69 makes room for art at the Roger Smith Hotel.
Made (Again) in the USA
Three generations of Hornicks—at Penn, in business, and back in the USA.
Two Capers Pair Off
Anthony Hamilton Russell WG’90 and Curtis Bashaw WG’90 know how to live.
Becoming a Bowl
Window, Jan|Feb 2015
Events
Jan|Feb 2015
Alumni Notes
Jan|Feb 2015
Obituaries
Jan|Feb 2015
On the Road to Nothing
How Warren Gefter M’74 inspired his daughter to write about nothing.