Venerating Venturi
Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture turns 50
Tiny Flying Robots
Mini Piccolissimo: the world’s smallest self-powered flying drone.
Journalism’s Digital Doyenne
Weber Symposium features digital journalist Kara Swisher.
UV versus C. Diff
Finding: UV light can reduce C. diff infections.
Found in Translation
Revitalizing endangered Native American languages.
When Push Comes to Shove
Cultural historian Francesca Ammon deconstructs the bulldozer.
Sachs Program for Arts Innovation
$15 million to establish the Sachs Program for Arts Innovation.
States Worse Than Death
Patient preferences diverge from standard measures of care quality.
E Pluribus, Polarization?
Political polarization less pronounced than partisans predict.
Flagship for Penn’s Other Campus
Pennovation Center opening: fabricating the future.
Convocation: “An Audition For Your Future Self”
Convocation: “Find your comfort zone, and then go beyond it.”
Eighteen Wheel Blues
Sociology’s Steve Viscelli on life as a long-haul trucker.
Leadership Program’s New Name, and the Complications of Compromise
$10 million gift for McNulty Leadership Program at Wharton.
Rebirthing the Revolution
History prof Michael Zuckerman C’61 on rethinking the Revolution.
Take Ivy, Take Two
33 to 40 offers a “snapshot of Penn at a very specific moment”
Dedication
Lorene Cary C’78 G’78 on a glorious day in the nation’s capital.
New College House
New College House opens.
A $2 Genetic Test for Zika
Penn researchers develop a $2 genetic test for Zika virus.
Fifty Shades of Grit
Q&A with Grit author and psych professor Angela Duckworth Gr’06.
Of Monsters and Ramen
Faculty couple Linda and Frank Chance share their love of Japan.
You Don’t Know Jack (Kerouac)
The long road to finding and translating Kerouac’s French writings.
Sex, Suicide, and Snapchat: Adolescent Health in the Digital Age
Parents wrong again: APPC study shows social media mostly OK for kids.
Storied Ending
Hamilton creator to Class of 2016: “Your stories are essential.”
Health and the City
Can techniques to measure health outcomes help community planning?