$25 Million for Entrepreneurship Center
$25 million for entrepreneurship center Tangen Hall.
Expecting the Unexpected (a How-To Guide)
Kunreuther and Useem on coping with disruption.
Riding the Sandstorm
Women’s soccer tops Ivies, men’s basketball starts strong.
Scoreboard
From Oct. 4 to Dec. 5
Unlikely Bonding Experience
It's been a crazy week for the Penn men's basketball team, which followed a couple of brutal (but also fun!) airline delays with a resounding victory back home.
Bleeding Red and Blue
From soccer coach to athletic administrator, Rudy Fuller is continuing to bring passion, energy and expertise to Penn sports.
Penn and Slavery
New studies detail how Penn benefited from slavery.
Online Undergraduates
LPS online bachelor’s degree is first in the Ivy League.
No Politics Is Local
Dan Hopkins on The Increasingly United States.
Beyond Labor: A Missing Piece in the Immigration Debate
Wharton study: immigrants boost investment and entrepreneurship.
Competing Visions of the Global Order
“Competing Visions of the Global Order” at Perry World House.
Making Destiny Together
Class of 2022 is one in a thousand.
School of Social Policy and Practice Names New Dean
New SP2 dean: Sara “Sally” Bachman.
The Electoral Road to Autocracy
“Democracies don’t die like they used to.”
Jeb Bush Nabs Presidential Professorship
Jeb Bush is a Presidential Professor of Practice for 2018–19.
Nanoparticles vs. Plaque
Baby teeth and nanoparticles spark advances.
Scoreboard
From Aug. 24 to Oct. 3
Title Defense
Basketball: new faces, high hopes.
Works of Hartt
In 1999, David Hartt shut down his art practice and left the galleries he’d been working with. He took the next 10 years away from all of it. Now he's teaching at Penn and exhibiting around the world—including in three new exhibitions that just opened in a span of 25 days.
Who is America?
GOP nativists have taken aim at a fundamental principle defining the American republic: birthright citizenship. Their legal rationale has an unlikely source: a liberal professor who totally opposes their aims. And that’s just where things start to get interesting with Constitutional law scholar Rogers Smith.
Wordsworth’s American Champion
Nearly two centuries ago, Penn professor Henry Hope Reed put William Wordsworth on America’s cultural map. More or less forgotten today (make that more), Reed was an impressive scholar whose enthusiasm for Wordsworth and English Romanticism helped shape the nation’s literary values.
Rush on the Mind
A focus on mental illness was a constant throughout the multi-faceted career of Benjamin Rush, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, prolific writer, longtime Penn faculty member, and the most prominent—and controversial—physician of his day.
David Ebert C’82, Joel Litvin W’81 Are a Voice for the Voiceless
When David Ebert C’82 and Joel Litvin W’81 discovered a shared passion for animal protection and the law, they joined forces to found the Animal Defense Partnership.
Confirmation and Its Discontents
Anita Hill on 1991 and 2018.