A Winter Without Basketball
Cancellations continue.
Wellness Warriors
In response to a rash of suicides in recent years, Penn students have fought to take charge of their own mental health, creating new peer-to-peer counseling groups and collaborating more closely with the administration on wellness initiatives. Is it enough to combat the pandemic stresses, burnout, and social isolation that afflict “the loneliest generation”?
In Nursing We Trust
The past year has propelled America’s most trusted profession into the spotlight, with the World Health Organization’s designation of 2020 as the Year of the Nurse and Midwife followed by the unprecedented and continuing challenges posed by COVID-19. Penn Nursing alumni and faculty weigh in on coping with the pandemic and on nursing’s essential—and expanding—place in the healthcare system.
Heard at Homecoming
Voices from a fall celebration (wait for it) … like no other.
Still Putting on a Show
Multiple Penn theatre alumni have reunited for this interactive virtual musical.
Arts Preview: Homecoming at Home
Homecoming at Penn may look different this year, but it still includes a packed schedule of virtual arts-oriented programming.
Let Them March
When Penn Band women first marched onto Franklin Field.
Vice Provost for Pipelines
VPUL to VPSE: Val Cade takes on student engagement.
Penn Law Receives $50 Million for Public Interest Lawyering
$50 million for Toll Public Interest Scholars and Fellow Program.
Remote Beginnings
The Class of 2024 gathers together from all over.
New Awakening
In multiple roles, Gina South Gr’12 fights racism in medicine.
Advancing Black Health
LDI-led effort aims to dismantle racism and advance health.
Moral Code
Q&A on how, and why, to make algorithms ethical.
Sniffing Out an Invader
Penn Vet is training dogs to sniff out spotted lanternfly eggs.
Holding Court
Fond Farewell: Peggy Kowalski.
Longtime Penn Relays Director Retires
Fond farewell: Dave Johnson.
The Museum Prescription
Doctors are worn down by paperwork and long hours, forced to focus on computer screens instead of their patients, plagued by feelings of eroding autonomy, traumatized by a pandemic—and trained to endure suffering with stoicism. What ails physicians bodes ill for their patients. Can the visual arts help revive their well-being? A year-long initiative from Penn Medicine and Philadelphia’s flagship art museums aims to test the theory at internet scale.
The Mother of Coronaviruses
When SARS-CoV-2 struck, Susan Weiss was ready. The decades of work that she and a small cohort of fellow researchers have devoted to coronaviruses, despite limited funding and little respect, have been invaluable in speeding the search for treatments and vaccines. It’s been a rare stroke of good fortune in the current crisis—and a lesson in the importance of supporting basic science in anticipation of future ones.
Lapping Up a Final Act of Love
When the time came to say goodbye to our dog, Brad Bates V’10 arrived at our doorstep. A palliative care veterinarian specializing in in-home euthanasia, he meets strangers every day at their saddest moments—and it somehow gives him strength.
A Reset for Cities?
The novel coronavirus has been especially tough on America’s cities—stripping away cultural and social amenities and spotlighting stark realities of income inequality, inadequate healthcare, and punitive policing. Alumni and faculty experts weigh in on whether and how they can be reimagined for a post-pandemic world.
Science Superheroes
Post-doctoral researcher Khoa Tran is translating concepts into comics and turning scientists into superheroes.
Back to (Virtual) School
What the fall semester will be like.
Common Ground
Chaz Howard C’00 heads new office on equity and community.
Quad Statue to Be Removed
Whitefield statue to go, broader look at campus to come.