High Price, Low Price, Your Price, My Price
Consumer advocate Lindsay Owens C’06 is leading the charge to protect Americans from the depredations of “surveillance pricing.” Wharton marketing professor Z. John Zhang thinks a ban would hurt the very people it means to help. Fresh off testifying at a Senate Judiciary subcommittee hearing on the issue, the alumna and professor go toe-to-toe debating what Congress should do next.
Within Our Bodies: A Third Waterway
The discovery of a circulatory system called the interstitium that operates “in between” the lymphatic and cardiovascular systems has profound implications for the diagnosis and treatment of many conditions—and may forge new links between Western, Eastern, and other traditional medicines.
Present at the Creation
Creation Entertainment cofounder and CEO Gary Berman W’77 went where no one had gone before in the expanding universe of pop culture fan conventions.
New Amenities, Same Old Charm
University architect and alum Mark Kocent on Quad renovations.
“The Big Bang of the Modern World”
How Franklin (and Washington) saved the Constitution.
Penn Medicine and SAS Receive Large Donations
$50 million to Penn Medicine, $22.5 million for SAS.
An Epic Beginning
Class of 2030 welcomed, with Odyssey references and more.
After 33 Years, a New Public Policy Center Leader
Albarracín succeeds long-serving Jamieson at APPC.
Career Anniversary
Career Services marks 100 years.
Legacy Class
Isaiah Carroll anchors a stellar crop of men’s hoops newcomers.
New Hall of Fame Class
Ten inducted into Penn Athletics Hall of Fame.
Franklin Field Lifer
John “Hench” Murray C’66 GEd’67 has broadcast Penn football for 45 years.
Don’t Only Connect—Get Situated and Practice Agency
In new books, Penn psychologists offer their prescriptions for friendship and achievement and trace the impact of a can-do mindset on human history.
A Haven at Hillel
For more than 100 years, Penn Hillel has served varying functions with a wide range of offerings—but has always been a spiritual home for the University’s Jewish students. At no point in its history has its mission been more vital.
Play Maker
The cofounder of New York Stage & Film—which has helped launch Hamilton, Hadestown, and hundreds of other projects since 1985—is tackling another medium right now: TV. With her new MGM+ show enjoying glowing reviews, yet still on the bubble for a second season, Leslie Urdang C’76 reflects on the high points of her 40-year career as a theatre and film producer—and the challenges of making stuff in 2026.
Market Street Makeover
Weitzman School affiliates stage pop-ups on Market Street.
Jameson to Step Down
President Jameson confirms June 30, 2027, end to his term.
Trust Issues
Debating reasons for—and solutions to—mistrust of higher ed.
Who Will Save the Media?
Annenberg’s Pickard on the media’s crisis and opportunity.
Wharton MBA Student Wins Medal of Honor
Nicholas Dockery WG’27 receives Medal of Honor.
The New Meets the Old
Penn’s new football coach, Rick Santos, takes the field.
City Limits
JJ Tiziou has been walking around the city of Philadelphia for a decade. Now he wants everybody else to join him.
LDI and American Healthcare
The interdisciplinary experts at Penn’s Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics have seen a lot since LDI was created after the passage of Medicare and Medicaid in the 1960s, but nothing quite like the challenges roiling the US healthcare system now.
The 30-Year Squat
Three decades ago a “ragtag army of squatter-minded poets” took possession of a modest cottage at 38th & Locust Walk and conjured by candlelight a vision of a “house for writers.” Today Kelly Writers House is a University institution that hosts a dizzying variety of classes, readings, and other events and sits at the center of a constellation of affiliated programs whose impact stretches around the globe. But in a lot of ways it hasn’t changed at all. Plus: ModPo’s story in The Classroom and the Crowd.