“Change” Marks Humanities Forum’s 10th Anniversary
Penn Humanities Forum celebrates first decade
Findings
Leaf Fever, Salvation Through Mutation, and the Case for Naptime
Shaking Things Up
Football preview
Lincoln’s American Dream
In 1858, tumbling financial markets prompt a religious revival, the government launches a “diversionary crusade,” and a new leader finds his voice.
End of the Beginning
Commencement: A “toast” from Michael Bloomberg
Honorary Degrees
Honorands
Teaching Those Who Teach
Penn helps teachers take lessons back to the classroom
Architect Picked for New College House
New College House architect named
Northern Exposure
From research assistant to co-editor in just seven years
Findings
Waterlogged, Now You See It, Bargain Envy, and Wrongful Diagnosis.
Penn Nabs Green-Power Prize
Penn golden when it comes to green power
Inventing Original Sin
Original sin and power politics, perfect together
$50 Million for Translational Medicine
Fishers give $50 million for translational medicine
Vet to the World
Vet prizes fight global poverty, change students’ lives
Dental Dean Leaving
Dental School Dean Jeffcoat steps down
Bowling for PhDs
Who says grad school is no fun?
New Design Dean
SOM’s Marilyn Jordan Taylor succeeds Hack at Design
The Contenders
Women’s lacrosse reaches NCAA finals
Separate and Unequal, Still?
Tracing the Kerner Commission’s legacy
Renaming Logan Hall
Logan becomes Claudia Cohen Hall
From White Castle to Ivory Tower
Actor Kal Penn teaches at Penn
Funding and (Good) Fellowship
Fontaine Society aids underrepresented in academe
Bloomberg to Speak at Commencement
Michael Bloomberg to speak at Commencement
Findings
Magnets for the blues, whistling while they work and engineering nerve tissue