Parrot Gets a Pegleg
Penn Vet gave a parrot a (3D-printed) pegleg.
Science and Error
A history of unripe findings and unintended consequences.
Strange Brotherhood
The hidden chapter of wartime human experimentation in the DKE house.
Football Eyes a Trifecta
And Roger Reina returns to wrestling.
Black Box Justice
Richard Berk designs computer algorithms that predict crime. As courts and cops increasingly use his and similar tools to shape everything from parole decisions to street policing, Berk has a warning: accuracy comes at the cost of fairness, and citizens must decide where justice lies.
Ron Gold’s Second Act
After an accident left him paralyzed from the waist down, Ron Gold C’83 W’83 struggled to come to terms with the “different hand of cards” he’d been dealt. But with the help of his wife and family—and some Penn friends—he’s managed to regain his zest for life and launch a new business to help others in his situation.
This Is Us Is His
Long before he created last season’s top-rated new TV show, Dan Fogelman got his start listening to his Penn housemates’ stories and making them laugh with his.
Ray Perelman: An Outstanding Penn Citizen Turns 100
August 22, 2017, marks the 100th birthday of noted Penn citizen and Center City resident Raymond G. Perelman, one of Philadelphia’s most prominent businessmen and active philanthropists.
Dance Fusion
Ramita Ravi C'17 took a spin on the current season of "So You Think You Can Dance."
Hidden Gem
Some of the world's premier soccer teams continue to descend on Rhodes Field as a top-flight training destination.
A Passion for Paper
Rachel Eisenberg Braun C'80 G'80, who holds the world record for largest graph paper collection, spoke with the Gazette about finding beauty among the lines.
Spreading Safety
Safe Kids Stories promotes “stealth culture change.”
$21 Million for Basser Center for BRCA
$21 million to Basser Center to fight BRCA-related cancers.
The New Provost
Provost pick: alumnus and law professor Wendell Pritchett Gr’97.
Democracy for Sale
Voter fraud vs. incentives, from Berry’s Five Dollars and a Pork Chop Sandwich.
The State of the Health-Care Economy
For LDI’s 50th, leaders weigh in on the future of health economics.
Hospital of the Future
$1.5 billion, 17-story pavilion for patient care slated for Penn Tower site.
Guilty Until Proven Innocent
Evidence and exoneration, from the Dreyfus Affair to the DNA era.
Smart, Simple
Two recent examples of Penn student-designed solutions to common problems.
Diamond Days
Baseball’s breakthrough season, softball standout Leah Allen C’17.
Scoreboard
From April 5 to June 6, 2017
“Save a Life, Serve a Cause, Seek the Sublime”
Booker to Class of 2017: Choose to make “a world of change.”
Scanning Sacred Interiors
With his high-tech Baroque Topologies project, associate professor of architecture Andrew Saunders is adding new dimensions to the study of Italian Baroque churches. It’s also serious eye candy.
Mapping the Human Journey
Combining old-school fieldwork and ethnography with up-to-the-minute gene-based analyses, Penn molecular anthropologist Theodore G. Schurr has helped shape our understanding of the movement of ancient peoples into the Americas.