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.
Cancer Moonshot Launched by Mission Control
Biden’s cancer “moonshot” lifts off at Penn.
Memoriam for Alex Moll
“Everything he did was trying to help other people.”
Renewing Penn Dental’s Main Clinic
$10 million Schattner gift will renovate main dental clinic.
Church Sex Scandals From Medieval to Modern Times
Centuries of scandal: sex abuse and the Church.
WetLand
Learning lab on the river.
A New Application
Needed? A new college-application portal.
Salmon on Tipping
Heard on Campus: Tipping point.
Findings
Research findings, Jan|Feb 2016
Two Rhodes Scholars
Rhodes Scholars Adebisi Ogunrinde and Jenna Hebert.
First Generation Students Unite
Bringing together first-generation college students at Penn.
A Big Carrot for Social Entrepreneurship
President’s Innovation Prize to award $100,000.
Streaking to a Surprise Championship
Football shares Ivy League crown; cross country competes nationally.