Blood, Turf, and Toil
Elizabeth Greenspan CGS’99 Gr’06’s Battle for Ground Zero.
Abundance of Alumni Art
Burrison Gallery features work by 17 alumni artists.
Preserving the Pueblos
Design alumni are helping restore ancient pueblos in New Mexico.
Empire of Squeeze
Michael Bulboff G’07 GrW’12 repairs, sells, and champions the accordian.
Translating Success
“Travel horror stories” led Wharton grads to create VerbalizeIt.
Putting Long Island Wines on the Map
Father and son wine-growers Charles WG’70 and Kareem W’96 Massoud.
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Angela Duckworth Snags “Genius Grant”
Penn psychology assistant professor Angela Duckworth has been named a MacArthur Fellow.
My Toy Story
“Buzz Lightyear saved my life,” writes Alec Sokolow C’85, one of the screenwriters credited for Toy Story, the beloved 1995 film that put Pixar on the map.
Penn at Pixar
Alumni have been working at the icon of computer animation since long before Toy Story, and a steady stream of Digital Media Design graduates are continuing to help create new hits like the Academy Award-winning Brave and this summer’s Monsters University.
Being There
As director of the Penn Program for Mindfulness, Michael Baime M’81 has helped hundreds of healthcare professionals acquire the skills to improve their interactions with patients, increase their job satisfaction, and reduce stress in their personal lives.
Shell’s Odyssey
Wharton professor Richard Shell’s unorthodox new book on success draws on his own wandering path to an academic career and celebrates the power of uncertainty.
Civic Hacker
Josh Tauberer Gr’11 believed the government should just give him the data he needed to create GovTrack, his website to help people follow the progress of Congressional legislation. When the powers-that-be said No, he went out and got it anyway.
The Work of a Generation
Once hailed as a “landmark” achievement, alumnus and Penn English professor Robert Spiller’s Literary History of the United States now feels not just dated but fundamentally misguided. What happened?
We’ll Always Have Paris
Alumni Voices | All choked up.
Portraits of the Mind
Greg Dunn Gr’11’s paintings show the brain’s beauty.
Synthesizing Music and Science
Harry Mendell EE’76 GEE’76 invented digital sampling.
Songs of the Father
Father and son, and Mask and Wig. The Gypsy in My Soul.
Singing the Surface Electric
Isabel Lizardi C’05 “plays” with paint and light at Bare Conductive.
Dr. Ping-Pong Will Beat You Now
Matt Simon C’02 supports his Ping-Pong career by being a doctor.
A New Look at Franklin in a Revamped Museum
Page Talbott G’76 Gr’80 is remodeling Franklin, and his museum.
Homeless Is Where the Heart Is
Farah Jimenez C’90 serves the homeless at the People’s Emergency Center.