Hindsight 2020
Will the “guardrails” that held in 2020 work in 2024?
“People Saw Me as Dangerous”
Brent Staples on what launched his writing career.
Tuition and Aid for 2023–24 Academic Year
Tuition and fees up 4 percent, financial aid up 12.
Jackson Named Provost
Annenberg Dean John Jackson named Penn’s 31st provost.
Kozuma Named Vice Provost
Hikaru “Karu” Kozuma GrEd’15 is the new VPUL.
Tiger Food
Men’s and women’s basketball fall to Princeton in Ivy tourney.
Menzel, Brunson to Speak
Idina Menzel and Quinta Brunson to speak.
The Power of Pickleball
Ryan Harwood W’03 owns and manages a professional pickleball team.
Remembering the True Legacy of MLK
Candlelight vigil and other observances.
Anger and Joy
MLK Lecture features 1619 Project creator Nikole Hannah-Jones.
Battling a Binging Brain
In pilot study, deep brain stimulation curbed binge eating.
Pottruck Center Turns 20
Pottruck Center celebrates 20 years of fitness with cake and more.
Orchestral Maneuvers
Philadelphia Orchestra archives coming to Penn Libraries.
GSE Grant Sets Record
$16.25 million to GSE for new leadership center and McGraw Prize.
Return to Sender
Law and medical schools withdraw from U.S. News rankings.
Play It Again, Sam
Lacrosse standout Sam Handley looks back and ahead.
By The Numbers
Mar|Apr 2023
Pine Alpha
The Penn Museum’s piece of a 4,000-year-old conifer.
The Olden Bough
Humans have revered ancient trees for about as long as we’ve chopped down forests. What does that fraught relationship reveal about our past? And can it illuminate a path toward a more hopeful future?
A Life’s Calling
For Liz Theoharis C’98, activism has been a way of life—from assisting her parents with their justice work, to community service as a Penn undergrad, to cochairing the recent revival of Martin Luther King Jr.’s Poor People’s Campaign of 1968. The Presbyterian minister, social justice leader, and biblical scholar is committed to reframing the narrative around poverty and the poor while pushing for lasting policy changes.
Rich History, New Visions
At Penn Live Arts, the legendary Negro Ensemble Company is creating new work that explores this country’s racial tensions and challenges. A February world premiere, Mecca is Burning, brought together five playwrights to imagine how four Black families in Harlem might navigate a white-supremacist revolution.
Sir Henry Thornton, On and Off the Rails
Knighted by Britain for his work as the Allies’ “railroad czar” in World War I, the Penn alumnus and Pennsylvania Railroad veteran went on to remake the Canadian National Railways before the Great Depression, poor health, and scandal brought him low.
And the Band Played On
For 125 years, the Penn Band has been an omnipresent and energetic presence at sporting events, campus ceremonies, and whenever “Penn is out and about in the community.”
The Outsider’s Insider
If there is a crisis (and there have been a few lately), Andy Slavitt C’88 W’88 knows which expert to bring “in the bubble.” When he’s not taping his award-winning podcast, the former insurance executive and federal administrator has a day job:funding innovation in healthcare for those who need help the most. “I have one thing I care about,” he says. “Making this country better for the people who have been ignored for too long.”