When Steven Met Hoodie
Hip-hop artist Hoodie Allen (aka Steven Markowitz W’10) is using the latest in social networking and the old-school marketing skills he learned at Wharton—minimize barriers to entry; provide speedy, individualized customer service; build brand loyalty—to conquer the music world.
Whistling Into the Dark
WQHS is on the air! (whether anyone’s listening or not)
Donna Brazile: “This is What Freedom Feels Like.”
Donna Brazile in dialogue at MLK Day lecture
Senior and Alumnus Score Marshall Scholarships
Marshall Scholars Michael Poll C’09 and Corey Metzman C’12 W’12
Heads of the Class
GSE’s executive-doctorate program marks 10 years
Neuroscience of Behavior Initiative Launched
$16.3 million for new Neuroscience of Behavior Initiative
Walk This Way
Fashion mag walks away with student-publication award
Reign of Hodges Ends at the Penn Museum
Exit interview: Penn Museum’s departing director, Richard Hodges
Penn Museum Collection Goes Online
New Museum database brings artifacts online
Findings
Beyond Bitterness and The Altai-America Express
Passing the Baton
Track-and-field enters post-Powell era; lacrosse teams seek titles
Glee at 150
After a century and a half, Penn’s oldest performing arts group is still going strong.
The Geeks Shall Inherit the Bars
Penn alumni are at the forefront of a growing movement to make socializing safe for the world’s nerds.
Penn Perspectives on the 99 Percent
Penn faculty talk about what lies behind the Occupy phenomenon, what may lie ahead, and what the recent spate of protests across the political spectrum portends for the republic.
Homecoming 2011
Homecoming 2011: Photos from the festivities.
At 40, Africana Studies Looks Back and Ahead
Center for Africana Studies turns 40
TCPW Honors Gutmann with Beacon Award
Gutmann receives TCPW’s Beacon Award
Penn Team Pulls Off Double Hand Transplant
Penn team performs double hand-transplant at HUP
Climate Change, Dark Ages, and Armchair Disaster Prediction
Looking to the past for lessons on climate change
Findings
By the Skin of the Heart...And By the Tail of the Skin, plus Low Birth Weight, High Autism Risk
Remembering Adolph “Beep Beep” Bellizeare
A tribute to Adolph “Beep Beep” Bellizeare C’75
Threepeat Falls Short
Football falters, hoops hopeful
Penn Connected
With the opening of Penn Park in September, the University’s eastward expansion is now a reality. A brief history of what it took to transform this long-sought dead zone into an oasis.
Pointing the Way to the Pole
He didn’t find the Open Polar Sea he was looking for—and probably overestimated how far North he actually managed to get—but the Arctic discoveries of Isaac Israel Hayes M1853 helped set the course for later explorers. And that was just the first of his several careers.