New Ivy Rules Aim to Lower Concussion Risks
New rules aim to reduce concussion risks
Between the Lines
A new biography examines the public and private lives of the great Brooklyn backstop Roy Campanella.
Getting Engaged
The Civic Scholars program, which fuses civic engagement with academic courses and projects, is shaping some remarkable, passionate students who are already having an impact on the communities they serve.
Surprises Are Always the Best
Like her four previous books, Jennifer Egan C’85’s A Visit from the Goon Squad received generally stellar reviews. But it didn’t look like this resistant-to-summary novel-in-stories would catch on with the public—that is, until she won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
The Park of a Thousand Pieces
Penn Praxis has a plan for adding 500 acres of open green space to Philadelphia in the next four years. Their approach, informed by novel research by Penn scholars in areas ranging from real-estate economics to criminology, is a new way of imagining urban parkland.
Cup O’Doodles
Artist Gwyneth Leech C’81 started drawing on used paper cups as a distraction when she got “antsy,” but “then it began to really take over.” A few hundred cups later, she spent six weeks doing the same thing while sitting in a window in New York’s Fashion District in an exhibit called Hypergraphia.
Alumni Weekend 2011
Our annual photo essay. Plus: Reports from three alumni panels focusing on global health, the economy, and reality TV.
Hollywood Ending
Denzel to Class of 2011: “Fall forward.”
Record-setting Gift from Perelmans to Endow, Rename School of Medicine
Perelmans give $225 million to the School of Medicine.
Historian of Collapse Eyes the Present Day
Collapse author: “Take environmental problems seriously.”
$15 Million Gift for a New ARCH
$15 million anonymous gift to renovate ARCH.
Some Senior Moments Are Brain Candy
Older scholars, new ideas.
Gamer U.
Penn Reading Project choice Reality is Broken launches Year of Games.
“Dorm Room Diplomat” Named Truman Scholar
Truman Scholar Corey Metzman.
Outsourcing National Security
Tracking the rise of the contractor in national security.
Start-Up With Style
Wharton Business Plan-winner Stylitics makes dressing digital.
Higher and Faster
All-Americans Maalik Reynolds and Leslie Kovach.
Some Teams Could Use This Guy …
PhillieBot throws out first pitch.
Anatomy of an Uprising
As rebellion rocked Egypt in early 2011, several Penn scholars had unusually intimate perspectives on the action.
Shooting Big Changes
Photographer Tara Todras-Whitehill C’00 EAS’00 has captured some astonishing images of the uprisings in Egypt and Libya. Who knows where her next ones will be from?
Flawed Founder
James Wilson signed the Declaration of Independence and was a key architect of the US Constitution, helped found Penn Law School, and served as one of the first justices of the Supreme Court. He was also a reckless land-speculator—jailed more than once for debt—who died a fugitive.
Journalism, Jews, and Jeffrey Goldberg
College alumnus Jeffrey Goldberg’s reporting from the Middle East has garnered a slew of awards and an invitation to come and chat with Fidel Castro. Just don’t tell his kids he dropped out of Penn.
Penn Theatre: A Work in Three Acts
Theatre has a long, rich—and somewhat obscure—history at the University. A new initiative aims to help Penn’s professional, academic, and student performing arts entities do more to work together and raise their collective visibility on campus and beyond.
Consolation Hymn of the Pussycat Dad
Sports, parenthood, and the virtues of finishing in 26th place.