Failure Is Your Friend
Megan McArdle C’94 on how you can win for losing.
The Staid Dissertation Gets a Motion-Picture Makeover
Coming attraction: first film to be submitted as Penn dissertation.
Rewriting the Final Sentence
Deborah Denno GrW’82 L’89 is one of the country’s leading scholars in the highly charged realm of the death penalty.
Cue the Middlemen
Whether you’re in the market for exotic pickles or looking to invest in the next up-and-coming urban neighborhood, these alumni-owned online businesses have you covered.
Homecoming 2014
Our annual photo essay. Plus: Alumni Award of Merit winners and citations.
The Man Who Knew Talent
That would be Alan Livingston, who invented Bozo the Clown, saved Frank Sinatra’s singing career, and (maybe) launched the Beatles in America.
Calling All Artists
Attention, alumni artists: The Burrison Gallery is seeking submissions.
Omar Maskati EAS’11 on Breaking into the Biz
The Mask and Wig alum is currently appearing in Roundabout Theatre's "Indian Ink."
Events
Nov|Dec 2014
Alumni Notes
Nov|Dec 2014
Obituaries
Nov|Dec 2014
Entering without Breaking
Window, Nov|Dec 2014
Life and Death Without Borders
Dan Goldring C’98 W’98 co-chairs Doctors Without Borders’ advisory board.
Innovation High
SLA founder Chris Lehman C’93 is “probably not your average principal.”
Healthcare Behind Bars
Bruce Herdman WG’75 Gr’82 G’83 directs healthcare for Philly’s prisons.
Leading the Fight Against Childhood Cancer
John Maris M’89 co-leads a “Dream Team” fighting childhood cancers.
A Labor of Love from Her Brain to Yours
Brain Pickings is Maria Popova C’07’s “one-woman labor of love.”
Philosopher on the Lathe
Creative practice = examined life.
A War-Scattered Family
“A War-Scattered Family.”
Consider the Turkey
Celebrating turkeys.
Trust
Rottenberg on Greenfield.The Outsider.
From Freshmen to Filmmakers
Student film-makers’ road to debut feature, Driving Not Knowing.
With the Donbas Battalion
A young reporter gets his first taste of war in eastern Ukraine.
A Principled Man
Nathan Mossell M1882 overcame great odds to become the first African-American graduate of Penn’s School of Medicine. He went on to found Philadelphia’s first black hospital—an achievement he never really wanted.