The Link
As the nation’s first medical school celebrates its 250th anniversary, a look back at how generations of students, faculty, and alumni have served their country, delivered the finest patient care, and advanced medical research and education here in Philadelphia and around the world.
Bankoff’s Time
Is Vox Media CEO James Bankoff WG’96 a Henry Luce for the Digital Age?
“One of Those Prodigious Victorian Polymaths”
Horace Howard Furness was a hopeful ghost-hunter, a Penn leader with a gift for stimulating donors’ “pocketbook nerve”—and the founder of modern Shakespeare scholarship.
Alumni Weekend 2015
Our annual photo essay.
Pure to Applied
Unconventional mathematician Robert Ghrist is using one of mathematics’ most abstract disciplines—algebraic topology—to solve real-world problems in robotics and sensor networks.
Hacked!
Astros GM Jeff Luhnow W'89 EAS'89 is the alleged victim of data breach by vengeful former colleagues.
‘I Wouldn’t Trade A Minute Of It’
After a record-breaking career for the women's lacrosse team, Tory Bensen looks back at her time at Penn.
Alan Sepinwall’s Farewell to ‘Mad Men’
The C'96 alumnus and well-known TV reviewer unpacks that final episode.
Power Speaker
Samantha Power selected to deliver the University’s 259th Commencement Address.
Mental Health Task Force: Reset the Campus Culture
Mental-health task force report released.
A New Home For Trauma Care
Trauma Center moves into $144 million Pavilion for Advanced Care.
Neuroscience for Poets (or Lawyers, or Nurses…)
SCAN certificate program serves non-specialists in neuroscience.
Penn Opens For Business in Beijing
Penn Wharton China Center now open in Beijing.
Bridges to Health
Penn-based Puentes de Salud treats uninsured immigrants.
Flagship Design for Pennovation Works
Architects selected for Pennovation Center at former South Bank site.
Tuition and Aid for 2015-16
Tuition and fees up 3.9 percent; financial aid up 5.1 percent.
Penn Engineering’s New Dean
Vijay Kumar picked as next dean of EAS.
Something Really Big—and Good—in the World
Inaugural President’s Engagement Prize-winners announced.
Penn Law Taps Professor as Dean
Theodore Ruger named new Law Dean.
Coaching Shakeup for Men’s Hoops
Men’s basketball: Allen out, Donahue in.
Scoreboard
From Feb. 2 to April 5
The Waymaker
Andy Strauss has spent 25 years preserving land and creating trails to restore natural beauty to blighted landscapes. Now he has a vision for the hardscrabble coal country of northeastern Pennsylvania.
Unconditional Pavlov
Daniel Todes spent 25 years researching and writing his epochal biography of Ivan Pavlov. The result is a science historian’s answer to Tolstoy, Turgenev, and Dr. Zhivago.
Living Up to the Lipstick
In the two decades since her breast-cancer diagnosis, Geralyn Lucas C’89 has become an icon and inspiration to fellow survivors for her flamboyant and gleefully defiant response to her disease. It all started with her choice of lipstick to wear for her mastectomy.