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.
Alumni Weekend 2026
Our annual photo gallery.
Lessons from History
Historian’s advice to Class of 2026: Be like FDR.
Chatbot Realtor
Maybe don’t depend on chatbots for real estate advice.
X Marks the Spot
Study reveals pattern in Neanderthal–Homo sapiens interbreeding.
President’s Prizes Announced
Winners of the 2026 President’s Prizes announced.
Penn/CHOP Team Win Breakthrough Prize
Gene therapy for a form of blindness wins Breakthrough Prize.
100 Years of Powerful Pipes
Irvine Auditorium’s Curtis Organ is 100 years old.
Doubling Down
Doubles threat Manfredi Graziani W’26 and Aaron Sandler W’27.
$20 Million for Middle-Income Student Financial Aid
$20 million to boost financial aid for middle-income families.
Semiquincentennial Sampler
To mark the impending 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence: a package of articles looking back to the Revolutionary War era on campus, examining the printing of the Declaration and highlighting Bicentennial dissent, and profiling the alumnus planning Philadelphia’s celebrations this year.
Witness and Judge
In his first book, Presidential Professor of Law Shaun Ossei-Owusu—a self-described “dark-skinned, sneaker-wearing, hip-hop referencing, first-generation everything with an unmaskable New York accent” and scholar given to “big swings”—offers a wide-ranging, eye-opening account of a legal system that “distributes pain and privilege unequally.”
Fresh Angle
How to see the Golden Gate Bridge.
Power Surge
Ivy championship and a taste of March Madness for men’s basketball.
Historian Michael Beschloss to Speak
Historian Michael Beschloss named as speaker.
Too Many Students, Not Enough Knowledge
Tom Nichols on “the therapeutic model of education.”
Balance of Power
Economist Hanming Fang compares China and the US.
Tuition and Aid for 2026–27 Academic Year
2026–27 costs and aid to rise 3.8 percent.
New Museum at Pennsylvania Hospital
Pennsylvania Hospital opens museum to mark 275th anniversary.
Century-Spanning Addition
With a space-doubling addition, the Morgan Building is now Weitzman Hall.
House of Champions
This time, the women’s squash team won a national championship.
A Haitian Heart
Duke Lacroix C’15 helped lead Haiti to this summer’s World Cup.