Health and the City
Can techniques to measure health outcomes help community planning?
The Election Issues That (Ought to) Matter
SP2 and IUR weigh in on what the 2016 election should be about.
Biology and Psychology, Together At Last
$68 million Levin Building is psych and bio’s new home.
iDesigning the Future
Better breast-pumping bra takes $50,000 iDesign Prize.
Electoral Corruption’s Ironic Enabler
Heard on Campus: Why the FEC doesn’t work anymore.
Bioethics Goes to the Movies
First Bioethics Film Festival focuses on “authority and rebellion.”
Math Versus Computer Bugs
Computer scientists working to debug software using mathematics.
Penn’s Economic Impact
The University’s economic impact in PA: $14.3 billion in 2015.
Latest Philadelphia “First”: World Heritage City
With a Penn assist, Philadelphia named first US World Heritage City.
UT’s Loss Is PennDesign’s Gain
Alumnus Fritz Steiner, of UT-Austin, named new PennDesign dean.
Launching Mat
Wrestling alumni-led Beat the Streets helped freshman Jon Guevara.
The Cost of a Penn Education
Costs—and financial aid—to rise 3.9 percent for 2016-17.
Driverless Cars: the City’s Savior, or its Doom?
IUR panel debates ETA for driverless cars.
New Center for Personalized Immunotherapies
Unveiled: Penn-Novartis Center for Advanced Cellular Therapeutics.
Out of the Submarine, Into the Work Force
Steve Weiner WG’16’s VetTechTrek matches veterans with tech firms.
A People’s History of ENIAC
New book on ENIAC emphasizes machine’s operations—and operators.
President’s Engagement Prizes
Second round of President’s Engagement Prize-winners announced.
Beau Biden Scholarship
Scholarship established to honor Joseph R. “Beau” Biden III C’91.
$80 Million to Restore Hill’s “Wow!”
Hill House to get $80 million renovation.
Islamic Chaplain: Fight Hatred With New Narratives
Penn’s Islamic chaplain Kameelah Rashad C’00 GEd ’01.
Class of 2016 Gets Broadway Star
Hamilton’s Lin-Manuel Miranda to be Commencement speaker
“Historic Philadelphia,” Rethought
Historic preservation studio challenges neighborhood assumptions.
Y-Prize Gets Beery
Y-Prize winners get $10,000 in beer money.
An Ethnographer Among the Hyenas
Q&A on sociologist David Grazian’s American Zoo.