Wharton Digital Press launches its first title into the ether
Portable, and available on every platform imaginable.
And the $50,000 for the best new idea in education goes to…
The Milken-Penn GSE Business Plan Competition.
The Debunker Debunked
Samuel Morton (Class of 1820) is vindicated.
Barbie Zelizer on the missing bin Laden photo, and the public record
Why the photo’s absence from the record is a cause for concern.
Arab media reaction to Osama bin Laden’s death
Q&A with Marwan Kraidy
T-minus Six Days
Catch the Philadelphia Science Festival before it ends.
Don’t look if you’re already hungry: Penn Appétit hits news stands
Penn's awarding-winning food magazine.
Jennifer Egan C’85 takes home the National Book Critics Circle award for fiction (updated: and the Pulitzer)
The award statement calls A Visit From the Goon Squad “a novel at once experimental in form and crystal clear in the overlapping stories it delivers, offering us a sense of youth and what gets lost along the way.”
Experimental poetry gains a new home at the Kelly Writer’s House
Jacket2 comes to Penn.
Dara Lovitz C’00 on house cats, songbirds, and animal law
Conversation with the animal rights activist and lawyer whose book Muzzling a Movement was released earlier this year.
Cynthia Kaplan C’85 is feeling a little bit Fangry
Kaplan was in Philly just before Christmas, delivering her yuletide carols to an enthusiastic crowd at the Tin Angel.
Neurosurgeon Michael Lemole M’95 is recognized, again
When he stepped up to the microphone at the press briefing after surgery and delivered an update on Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, Lemole became a sort of unofficial spokesperson for the tragedy.
Now on YouTube: Classless
Undergrad life, skewed and skewered.
Jon Sarkin C’75 splashes some paint on Guster
The art of Jon Sarkin C'75 is all over the music video for Guster's hit song "Do You Love Me," and if you look closely you can see Sarkin himself make a cameo.
Jay Matsueda W’95 creates an album of volunteers
How did Jay Matsueda W’95 scrape together studio time with some of L.A.’s finest session musicians? “Barter, and the underground economy,” he says.
Old Penn Vol. III, 1904-05
Third in a 110 part series.
Wax in 1971
Lost photos from a band still making Rolling Stone Top 10 lists today.
NFL news roundup, Penn edition
A lockout that could shorten—or even cancel—next year’s NFL season, and carry a multi-billion dollar price tag.
Anton Bernstein: (yet another) W’08 entrepreneur
Anton Bernstein just finished his undergrad at Wharton in 2008, but he's already sold one company. He currently splits his time between San Francisco and Paris, where he's building business number two.
Economic stress trickles down to incoming freshman
It seems that not even incoming freshman are immune from economic gloom. According to a recent major survey, our newest college students are entering higher learning with historically low levels of optimism about the job market and historically high levels of stress.
Warning: Robot Construction Ahead
Meet the quadrotor, a four-propeller helicopter-style creature that lately has been whizzing around Penn’s GRASP robotics lab with increasing sophistication.
Hope for the thinning crowd
Back in 1992, when Dr. George Cotsarelis landed a research fellowship looking at cancer amidst scalp stem cells, he didn’t expect to stumble on a treatment for male pattern baldness.
The NFL’s designated Decider: Stephen Burbank
This time of year, NFL fans are pretty much focused on one thing only: the Superbowl.