Jameson Named Interim President
Penn Medicine’s J. Larry Jameson named Interim Penn President.
Mind Tease
How belief in the “intact mind” harms severely autistic people.
New Digs for the DP
DP will say goodbye to the “Pink Palace” in 2025.
Rules of Engagement
Evaluating the laws of armed conflict in the Israel-Hamas war.
UMC Unity
United Minorities Council revives Unity Week.
Literary Treats
The annual Kelly Writers House event featured some tasty puns.
Paradise Now
Lessons for the good life in Everyday Utopia.
Big 5 Fireworks
A thrilling victory and buzzer-beating defeat for men’s basketball.
Freshman Phenom
Football’s bright spot: freshman running back Malachi Hosley.
Larger Than Life
Track and field coach—and much more—Tony Tenisci remembered.
Fake Simple
Amanda Shulman C’15 has earned national acclaim with Her Place Supper Club, where she’s also bending stubborn industry standards around life balance and labor compensation. It all began with a jolt to Penn’s off-campus social scene.
“A Place I Could Be Myself”
The Penn Women’s Center celebrates five decades of providing advocacy, advising, refuge, counseling, company, and tea. From its origins in the struggle against campus sexual violence, the center has evolved to tackle a range of concerns, from wellness to combating racism. The latest debate: Is its name, meant to be welcoming, too restrictive or exclusionary at a time when gender itself is contested?
Another Realm
New photographs by Arthur Drooker C’76 explore the elusive moments before dusk when “vivid colors paint the sky with magic and mystery.”
Nobel Cause
mRNA researchers Kariko and Weissman win Nobel Prize.
A ‘Call Together’ in Gratitude
New venue, timeless message for Class of 2027 launch.
The “Nora Prize” at 20
“Nora-ites” assemble for 20th anniversary of mentorship prize.
Carl June Wins Breakthrough Prize
Carl June awarded 2024 Breakthrough Prize for CAR T cell therapy.
New Nukes
Nuclear fears and hopes at Perry World House.
John Bence Named University Archivist
John Bence named University Archivist.
Character Over Cognition
Q&A with Adam Grant on his latest, Hidden Potential.
New Normal, New Team
Men’s basketball looks to bounce back from star losses.
Time Stretcher
From swinging standards to avant garde nonconformism, Penn music professor, jazz drummer, and shapeshifting composer Tyshawn Sorey has won acclaim for “awesomely confounding” music whose “vulnerable virtuosity” can “open different portals in your depth of feeling and imagination.”
The PZ Project
From picture books to The Poet X, Penn Libraries are expanding and diversifying their holdings of books for young readers.
American Science’s Promoter-in-Chief
The great-grandson of a famous founder (of the nation and this University) and “boyhood’s friend” of the president of the Confederacy, educational reformer and onetime Penn professor Alexander Dallas Bache made his own reputation by championing the professionalization of American science in the mid-1800s.