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.
Scoreboard
From Oct. 5 to Dec. 7
The Shapes of Things to Come
Haresh Lalvani Gr’81 believes there’s a universal code for architecture and sculpture—a “morphological genome” that determines the shape of built structures, similar to the way that DNA shapes living things. And he’s well into the process of decoding it.
Our Labs, Our Health?
In Risky Medicine, History and Sociology of Science Professor Robert Aronowitz argues that today’s fixation on diagnosing and managing risk factors rather than treating diseases leads to anxiety and stress, over-diagnosis of conditions and overuse of drugs, and radical treatments that are unnecessary or harmful.
Walking on a Wire
One hundred years after a Penn professor was famously fired for his political views, a campus symposium on academic freedom wrestled with a familiar question: Are universities still homes of free speech and inquiry?
Homecoming 2015
Our annual photo essay. Plus: Alumni Award of Merit winners and citations.
Mr. Milestone
Penn women's basketball coach Mike McLaughlin joins exclusive club with 500th career victory.
Christmas Spirit
Former Penn track runner Brian Lang C'08 sets Guinness World Record for fastest marathon ... in a Santa Claus suit.
Life Behind the ‘Wicked’ Stage
Jonah Platt C'08, now starring in 'Wicked,' pulls back the Broadway curtain.
‘Heck Of A Ride’
Ray Priore completes magical first year as Penn's head football coach with improbable Ivy League championship.
Your Handy Homecoming Athletics Guide
Previewing a busy Homecoming sports slate at Penn, including a field hockey title game, a football showdown and a soccer doubleheader.