Storms and Reforms
Puerto Rico’s Department of Education has been getting an extreme makeover under alumna Julia Keleher. It was a Herculean task even before the catastrophic hurricane.
Healing the Island
Christine Nieves has been creating new narratives for Puerto Rico in the wake of Hurricane Maria.
The Idea of Love
On the job with the University’s eloquently soft-spoken, relentlessly positive, powerfully empathetic, turtle-admiring, Penn basketball-obsessed chaplain.
When William James Got Hungry
In an excerpt from his new autobiography, Penn psychology professor Martin Seligman tells the little-known story of the American Psychological Association’s annual meeting in 1904, held at Penn. Its reverberations were profound—for Penn psychology professor Edwin Twitmyer and for American psychology.
Hoops Honors and History
The Penn women's basketball program celebrates championships, record-breaking senior class, and a Big 5 Hall of Fame induction.
Grand Finale
On Friday, William Parberry Gr'80 takes his final bow as conductor of three Penn choral groups. He spoke with the Gazette about his 45-year career at the University.
Can the Arts Save a City?
Santo D. Marabella GrS’91 is making a TV pilot right now—but that’s just one of the ways he’s using the arts to revitalize Reading, Pennsylvania.
ISO: The Eatery’s Salad Dressing
If you were looking for cheap and healthful meals on campus in the 1970s, the place to eat was the basement of the Christian Association.
No Direction Home
The 2018 Silfen Forum focused on refugees and asylum seekers.
Wake Up The Ghosts
Penn men's basketball celebrates an Ivy League championship by cutting down the nets at an empty Palestra in the middle of the night.
Alien Archaeology
Heard on Campus: Jill Tarter gives the third annual Women in Physics public lecture.
Seven-Hour Sanctuary
“Existential Despair”: Rilke, Burroughs, My Little Pony, and more.
This Is Your Brain on Politics
Can brain imaging help heal extreme partisanship?
Trustees Remove Wynn Name From Campus
Penn cuts ties with Steve Wynn C’63.
Ancient Vintage
New finding pushes grape-wine production back to 6000 BCE.
The Single-Payer Problem
Wage stagnation linked to dearth of employers.
Standing Athwart History
Annenberg’s Al Felzenberg on his William F. Buckley bio.
Team-Oriented Robots
$27 million to develop “teams of robots” for US Army.
Teeming Team
More the merrier for men’s basketball; lacrosse seeks redemption.
Scoreboard
From Dec. 6 to Feb. 6
Everyone’s Song
Penn’s vibrant a cappella community contains a multitude of musical styles and cultural influences. Take a listen.
An Odyssey for Our Time
Emily Wilson’s translation of Homer’s epic has become a surprise sensation, a once-in-a-generation transformation of how English readers encounter one of the most iconic characters in all of literature. Fellow classics professor (and Odyssey aficionado) Peter Struck has some questions for her.
Confronting Denial
The four Gormans are all Penn alumni and all involved professionally in the mental-health field. In a new book, two of them—daughter Sara and father Jack—take a careful look at the psychological factors driving science denialism and how to counter them. Hint: more data isn’t the answer.
The Judges’ Lawyer
In successfully defending the irascible Supreme Court Justice Samuel Chase—aka “Old Bacon Face”—against impeachment, Joseph Hopkinson C1786 G1789 helped set a high bar for removal from office and establish the principle of judicial independence.