Power Speaker
Samantha Power selected to deliver the University’s 259th Commencement Address.
Mental Health Task Force: Reset the Campus Culture
Mental-health task force report released.
A New Home For Trauma Care
Trauma Center moves into $144 million Pavilion for Advanced Care.
Neuroscience for Poets (or Lawyers, or Nurses…)
SCAN certificate program serves non-specialists in neuroscience.
Penn Opens For Business in Beijing
Penn Wharton China Center now open in Beijing.
Bridges to Health
Penn-based Puentes de Salud treats uninsured immigrants.
Flagship Design for Pennovation Works
Architects selected for Pennovation Center at former South Bank site.
Tuition and Aid for 2015-16
Tuition and fees up 3.9 percent; financial aid up 5.1 percent.
Penn Engineering’s New Dean
Vijay Kumar picked as next dean of EAS.
Something Really Big—and Good—in the World
Inaugural President’s Engagement Prize-winners announced.
Penn Law Taps Professor as Dean
Theodore Ruger named new Law Dean.
Rediscovering the Impromptu Man
Jonathan Moreno on “J.L.,” his psychodrama-founding father.
Spring Break, Reimagined
Alternative Spring Break program celebrates 25 years of service.
Food Waste Nation
Conference tackles food waste (all 1.3 billion tons a year).
Ghost Boosters
Who ya gonna call … to study the “sociological truth” of ghosts?
A Deeply Rooted Rhodes Scholar
College senior Rutendo Chigora of Zimbabwe named a Rhodes Scholar.
Archaeology Education Gets an Upgrade
A close look at the Center for the Analysis of Archaeological Materials.
A Twitter Eclipse of the Heart
Language on Twitter can predict heart-disease risk in a community.
Findings
High altitude and lung cancer, Alzheimer's and antidepressants, all work and no sleep.
Walking On, Bowing Out
Matt Hanessian’s unlikely journey to—and from—varsity basketball.
Tracing the Digital Revolution at Penn’s New Home for Innovation
Silfen Forum: Isaacson on The Innovators.
One Percent From the One Percent
Charity that works.
Champion of the Bureaucrats
DiIulio’s recipe for good government: Bring Back the Bureaucrats.
Making Mummies—and Museumgoers
Penn Museum program will let seventh-graders “unpack the past.”