Fifty Shades of Grit
Q&A with Grit author and psych professor Angela Duckworth Gr’06.
Of Monsters and Ramen
Faculty couple Linda and Frank Chance share their love of Japan.
You Don’t Know Jack (Kerouac)
The long road to finding and translating Kerouac’s French writings.
Sex, Suicide, and Snapchat: Adolescent Health in the Digital Age
Parents wrong again: APPC study shows social media mostly OK for kids.
Greater Expectations
Starting over, in football and field hockey.
Method Inventor
With an innovation portfolio that ranges from medical devices to folding bicycles to social-impact enterprises to junk food, Wharton professor Karl Ulrich has every justification to bask in entrepreneurial mystique. Only that’s exactly what he sets out to demolish in the classroom.
Director Gone Bad
Mean Girls director Mark Waters C’86 is taking a shot at R-rated comedy with Bad Santa 2 this Thanksgiving—and still trying to figure out his place in ever-evolving Hollywood.
The Christian Association at 125
At the turn of the last century, the CA pioneered the idea of service at Penn with settlement houses and summer camps, and has since been at the forefront of anti-war protests and movements for civil, women’s, and LGBT rights. In the 21st, it’s still providing a “safe space” for students and making a difference on campus and beyond.
The Man Who Put Yellowstone on the Map
As the National Park Service marks its centennial this year, let’s take a moment to celebrate Penn professor and building namesake Ferdinand Hayden, whose visionary advocacy saved what became America’s first National Park from the tawdry, commercialized fate of Niagara Falls.
Googling Cuba
Brett Perlmutter’s mission was to open up Cuba to the internet. To say that it was
politically sensitive is an understatement. But the timing was just about perfect.
His Olympic Torch Still Burns
For Brandon Slay W’98, it’s “an honor” to be back in the Olympics — for a third time.
Cooking in the Archives
Two English PhD alumnae are updating old recipes for modern kitchens. Here are some of their most successful creations so far—and the dish they won't make again.
Grappling with Tragedy
Alumni wrestlers teamed up for documentary, Team Foxcatcher.
Storied Ending
Hamilton creator to Class of 2016: “Your stories are essential.”
Health and the City
Can techniques to measure health outcomes help community planning?
The Election Issues That (Ought to) Matter
SP2 and IUR weigh in on what the 2016 election should be about.
Biology and Psychology, Together At Last
$68 million Levin Building is psych and bio’s new home.
iDesigning the Future
Better breast-pumping bra takes $50,000 iDesign Prize.
Electoral Corruption’s Ironic Enabler
Heard on Campus: Why the FEC doesn’t work anymore.
Bioethics Goes to the Movies
First Bioethics Film Festival focuses on “authority and rebellion.”
Math Versus Computer Bugs
Computer scientists working to debug software using mathematics.
Elite Eight Finish for Women’s Lacrosse
Ivy champs women’s lacrosse reach NCAA quarterfinals.
Scoreboard
From April 4 to June 6
The New Biology
From matchbook-sized models of living human organs to the surprising alternative-energy implications of symbiotic giant clams, the work of three new faculty members represents the changing face of bioscience at Penn.