I Hold This Truth To Be Absolutely Inscrutable
After 205 years, Penn professor’s cipher is solved
Mapping Quaker Nation
Where the newest Quakers—and the rest of us—hail from
Ready to Reclaim Some Gridiron Swagger?
Football looks to get its “swagger” back
A Hymn to the Parks
Dayton Duncan sees the national parks as the “Declaration of Independence applied to the landscape.” Now he and Ken Burns have made an epic movie about them.
In the Spotlight
Penn’s thriving arts-and-culture scene takes center stage this year.
Disney’s Channeler
Mixing up-to-the-minute marketing techniques, tried-and-true entertainment formulas, and engaging young stars and stories, Disney Channels Worldwide President Richard Ross C’83 is helping ensure that the company remains supreme in the kid-entertainment universe.
Send a Posse
Penn to partner with Posse Foundation in admissions
Two New PIK Profs
Latest PIKs
Tree Hugging
Out on a Limb at Morris Arboretum
Goals
Danny Cepero C’08
The Man Who Modernized Pro Football
Bert Bell C’20
How Their Gardens Grow
Netter Center for Community Partnerships opens a new garden at West Philadelphia High School.
A Life Worth Living
Thanks to advanced technology and the family, friends, colleagues, and caretakers who make up his “crew,” Penn neuroscientist and alumnus Scott Mackler continues to function professionally and personally a decade after being diagnosed with the lethal neurodegenerative disease ALS.
The Future of Our Past
Penn’s Architectural Conservation Laboratory takes a rigorous approach to historic preservation.
Sunrise in Philadelphia
On a crisp September day, the delegates to the Constitutional Convention gathered to sign the document they’d hammered out over the long, hot summer of 1787, flaws and all. An excerpt from Plain, Honest Men by History Professor Richard Beeman. Plus: An interview with the author.
Alumni Weekend 2009
Alumni Weekend 2009 Slideshow
Crossing the Street
It’s just a short walk from Penn’s campus to the Philadelphia Veterans Affairs Medical Center, but for the hundreds of medical students and residents who train there the experience can be transformative.
Not Just For Kids
Our adult obsession with youth sports isn’t just unsettling. It’s tradition.
Four Years End Not With a Bang, But a Twitter
Commencement: “THE BIG DAY IS HERE!”
Honorary Degrees
Honorands
Penn Names New Provost
Vincent Price named provost
A Year of Challenges and Opportunities in Admissions
Admissions Dean Eric Furda C’87 on his freshman year
Reader, Have You No Spine?
How books are different from the Web
Givology
Recent grads launch charity website Givology