Graduation, Westeros Style
Powers to Class of 2015: “[T]o save the world, start by acting ‘as if’”
Honorary Degrees
Honorands, Commencement 2015.
An MBA With Life in the Balance
Student speaker at Wharton Commencement is fighting for his life.
Entrepreneurship for Ex-Cons
PREP aims to help ex-inmates become entrepreneurs.
Doubling ICA’s Reach
ICA gets $10 million gift for curatorial program.
Heart Palpitations? Beware of Dr. Google
Risk factor: health-related websites track and share search data.
Young Quakers
In Young Quakers program, Penn athletes mentor middle-schoolers.
From Septimus Smith to September 11
Heard on Campus: “Are we living inside a pre-traumatic syndrome?”
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.