Throwing Weight
Sam Mattis’ Olympic hopes; women’s lacrosse is “on a mission.”
Scoreboard
From Dec. 8, 2015 to Feb. 7, 2016
The Small, Good Stories
The Penn Cultural Heritage Center was launched to provide a forum for an “intellectual discussion” of the meaning of heritage and the role of communities in preservation efforts. Then came the Syrian civil war and the rise of ISIS.
That Roosevelt
Penn Law professor, legal scholar, and novelist Kermit Roosevelt III is doing his best to live up to the family name—including, in his latest book, by tackling cousin Franklin’s executive order authorizing the confinement of more than 100,000 Japanese Americans in internment camps during World War II.
Street Fighter
“Gridlock Sam” Schwartz is an icon in New York’s century-long war with traffic. Can his final campaign reshape the city’s transportation future?
Readin’, Writin’, Revolution
With the Minerva Project, Ben Nelson W’97 is out to “build the world’s greatest university from scratch.” Should Penn—and other top-tier schools—be worried?
March Madness Missed
What’s more frustrating than playing Ivy League men’s basketball in the same era as Bill Bradley? Winning the University’s first official Ivy championship the year after he graduated, and then being kept out of postseason play because of a fight between the League and the NCAA. Fifty years later, Penn’s 1965-66 squad still wonders what might have been.
Make It Mini
Adjunct anthropology professor Louise Krasniewicz is a prize-winning miniature-maker—and she's researching our attraction to tiny worlds at the same time.
‘A Big Special Family’
Penn basketball legends from six decades unite at the Palestra to celebrate Big 5 anniversary.
‘From Away’
In coastal Maine, the Tepler family—including dad Sheldon L'81, mom Denise C'78 G'81, and daughter Maya C'11—have opened their home to two Burundian asylum-seekers. Now Maya is making a documentary about the experience, titled 'From Away.'
The Top Ten Games of 2015
Counting down the most memorable, dramatic and historic games in the last year of Penn sports.
Choosing Paper
Through a West Philly-based, non-profit print shop and zine library called The Soapbox, several alums are putting paper first.
“You’re No. 1!”
Window, Jan|Feb 2016
Memoriam for Alex Moll
“Everything he did was trying to help other people.”
Renewing Penn Dental’s Main Clinic
$10 million Schattner gift will renovate main dental clinic.
Church Sex Scandals From Medieval to Modern Times
Centuries of scandal: sex abuse and the Church.
WetLand
Learning lab on the river.
A New Application
Needed? A new college-application portal.
Salmon on Tipping
Heard on Campus: Tipping point.
Findings
Research findings, Jan|Feb 2016
Two Rhodes Scholars
Rhodes Scholars Adebisi Ogunrinde and Jenna Hebert.
First Generation Students Unite
Bringing together first-generation college students at Penn.
A Big Carrot for Social Entrepreneurship
President’s Innovation Prize to award $100,000.
Streaking to a Surprise Championship
Football shares Ivy League crown; cross country competes nationally.