Don’t Only Connect—Get Situated and Practice Agency
In new books, Penn psychologists offer their prescriptions for friendship and achievement and trace the impact of a can-do mindset on human history.
A Haven at Hillel
For more than 100 years, Penn Hillel has served varying functions with a wide range of offerings—but has always been a spiritual home for the University’s Jewish students. At no point in its history has its mission been more vital.
Play Maker
The cofounder of New York Stage & Film—which has helped launch Hamilton, Hadestown, and hundreds of other projects since 1985—is tackling another medium right now: TV. With her new MGM+ show enjoying glowing reviews, yet still on the bubble for a second season, Leslie Urdang C’76 reflects on the high points of her 40-year career as a theatre and film producer—and the challenges of making stuff in 2026.
Market Street Makeover
Weitzman School affiliates stage pop-ups on Market Street.
Jameson to Step Down
President Jameson confirms June 30, 2027, end to his term.
Trust Issues
Debating reasons for—and solutions to—mistrust of higher ed.
Who Will Save the Media?
Annenberg’s Pickard on the media’s crisis and opportunity.
Wharton MBA Student Wins Medal of Honor
Nicholas Dockery WG’27 receives Medal of Honor.
The New Meets the Old
Penn’s new football coach, Rick Santos, takes the field.
City Limits
JJ Tiziou has been walking around the city of Philadelphia for a decade. Now he wants everybody else to join him.
LDI and American Healthcare
The interdisciplinary experts at Penn’s Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics have seen a lot since LDI was created after the passage of Medicare and Medicaid in the 1960s, but nothing quite like the challenges roiling the US healthcare system now.
The 30-Year Squat
Three decades ago a “ragtag army of squatter-minded poets” took possession of a modest cottage at 38th & Locust Walk and conjured by candlelight a vision of a “house for writers.” Today Kelly Writers House is a University institution that hosts a dizzying variety of classes, readings, and other events and sits at the center of a constellation of affiliated programs whose impact stretches around the globe. But in a lot of ways it hasn’t changed at all. Plus: ModPo’s story in The Classroom and the Crowd.
Alumni Weekend 2026
Our annual photo gallery.
Lessons from History
Historian’s advice to Class of 2026: Be like FDR.
Chatbot Realtor
Maybe don’t depend on chatbots for real estate advice.
X Marks the Spot
Study reveals pattern in Neanderthal–Homo sapiens interbreeding.
President’s Prizes Announced
Winners of the 2026 President’s Prizes announced.
Penn/CHOP Team Win Breakthrough Prize
Gene therapy for a form of blindness wins Breakthrough Prize.
100 Years of Powerful Pipes
Irvine Auditorium’s Curtis Organ is 100 years old.
Doubling Down
Doubles threat Manfredi Graziani W’26 and Aaron Sandler W’27.
$20 Million for Middle-Income Student Financial Aid
$20 million to boost financial aid for middle-income families.
Semiquincentennial Sampler
To mark the impending 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence: a package of articles looking back to the Revolutionary War era on campus, examining the printing of the Declaration and highlighting Bicentennial dissent, and profiling the alumnus planning Philadelphia’s celebrations this year.
Witness and Judge
In his first book, Presidential Professor of Law Shaun Ossei-Owusu—a self-described “dark-skinned, sneaker-wearing, hip-hop referencing, first-generation everything with an unmaskable New York accent” and scholar given to “big swings”—offers a wide-ranging, eye-opening account of a legal system that “distributes pain and privilege unequally.”
Fresh Angle
How to see the Golden Gate Bridge.