Detroit and the Seven Dwarfs
Debating Detroit: More like Liverpool or Seattle?
Hearty and Humorous Welcome for the Class 2017
Freshman Convocation: Only Engage.
The Once And Future Syria
Heard on Campus: Syria’s new old normal.
Sheldon Hackney, 1933-2013
Death of President Emeritus Sheldon Hackney Hon’93.
Tackling Tobacco From Another Angle
$20 million for new center to counter misinformation on tobacco.
A Pop-Up Favela on Hill Field
Take 1,300 plywood stakes, cardboard, white gaffer’s tape…
Varsity Rules
No lightweights here: Sprint football’s annual alumni game.
Silver Linings Playbook
Men’s basketball: “My expectations are high,” says Coach Allen.
Scoreboard
From Sept. 6 to Oct. 6
Water Polo Ivy Championship tourney
Penn men’s water polo ready to make splash.
Penn basketball’s new practice facility at Hutchinson Gym
Photos of the renovations.
Penn at Pixar
Alumni have been working at the icon of computer animation since long before Toy Story, and a steady stream of Digital Media Design graduates are continuing to help create new hits like the Academy Award-winning Brave and this summer’s Monsters University.
Being There
As director of the Penn Program for Mindfulness, Michael Baime M’81 has helped hundreds of healthcare professionals acquire the skills to improve their interactions with patients, increase their job satisfaction, and reduce stress in their personal lives.
Shell’s Odyssey
Wharton professor Richard Shell’s unorthodox new book on success draws on his own wandering path to an academic career and celebrates the power of uncertainty.
Civic Hacker
Josh Tauberer Gr’11 believed the government should just give him the data he needed to create GovTrack, his website to help people follow the progress of Congressional legislation. When the powers-that-be said No, he went out and got it anyway.
The Work of a Generation
Once hailed as a “landmark” achievement, alumnus and Penn English professor Robert Spiller’s Literary History of the United States now feels not just dated but fundamentally misguided. What happened?
The Kurdish Wild Card
Brendan O’Leary on Syria’s civil war and the region’s future.
Stamp of Approval
Canada claims Franklin, too (on commemorative postage stamp).
Professor—and Museum Curator—Tukufu Zuberi
Man-of-many-media Tukufu Zuberi curates a pair of museum exhibits.
Innovation for Blockheads
LEGO’s lessons for innovators.
The Perks and Perils of a Quick Twitter Finger
Anthea Butler’s battles in the blogosphere and twitterverse.
Curb Your Enthusiasm
New book aims to “pressure-test” social entrepreneurs’ good intentions.
Is Penn men’s soccer poised for a rebound?
Coach Rudy Fuller: “Now we feel really good in two areas: our depth and our leadership.”
National Medal of Arts for Laurie Olin
National Medal of Arts for Laurie Olin.