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.
Home Economics
Undergrads help West Philadelphia schoolkids gain financial savvy.
Oh, Kolkata! Sex Workers and the City
Far-afield trip: SP2 students visit sex-workers’ collective in India.
Drinking Games, Wharton Style
Wharton team advances to international wine-tasting contest.
Class of 2011 Gets Denzel
Denzel Washington takes role as Penn’s 255th Commencement speaker.
Near Death Experiences
Annenberg’s Barbie Zelizer on images of impending death.
Pop Neuroscience With David Brooks
David Brooks on the mysteries of perception.
$3 Billion Down, $500 Million To Go
Making History campaign tops $3 billion
Looking Back to Move Forward
Class connects current students to black history at Penn.
Uphill Battles
Basketball: men & women looking to the future.
Endorsements, Inc.
Endorsement deal-maker Michael Balser C’90.
The Frosting of War
Ultimate Collegiate Cupcake Decorating Competition
Untangling Alzheimer’s
A remarkable collection of Penn scientists, led by Virginia Lee and John Trojanowski, is attacking the merciless affliction known as Alzheimer’s, along with other neurodegenerative diseases. But the clock is ticking.
Almost Perfect
Penn’s 1970-71 men’s basketball team was arguably the very best the Ivy League will ever see—even if their 28-0 season did end with a baffling loss that stings even 40 years later.
Penn Fights the Civil War
As soldiers on the battlefield or doctors in military hospitals, Penn alumni and faculty played remarkable roles in the nation’s bloodiest conflict—serving both North and South.
Passion Play
Sure it’s nice being a giant in the world of psychology, but sometimes Marty Seligman “just can’t wait to get to the bridge screen.”