New Home, Name, and Faculty for Afro-American Studies
Center for Africana Studies opens
Action!
Now playing on 40th Street, movies at the Bridge.
Winning, Losing, Learning
Two views of Quaker football, from the bottom and the top of the Ivy League.
Questions Answered
Yes, this year’s football team can put points on the board.
On Target at Any Age
Phyllis Wynn Shipman CW’65
Building Penn’s Brand
How the architecture of the campus—and the coverage it received in the Gazette—has reflected the University's changing image of itself.
Brand Extensions
From fresh food to well-preserved artifacts: What’s building now.
Unbuilt Penn
From the ICA’s geodesic dome to Furness's Alumni Hall to the skyscraper on Locust Walk, Penn has had some fascinating unbuilt visions.
Yesterday’s News
Timeline | In the decades leading up to the new millennium, the University finds itself embroiled in the culture wars, celebrates its 250th anniversary, elects its first woman president, and rises in the rankings.
When the Search Is Over
The World Trade Center attacks prompted an intense search-and-rescue effort. How have the 9/11 dogs and their human handlers been faring? Two Penn professors, Dr. Cindy Otto and Dr. Melissa Hunt, are trying to find out.
Coming to Terms
During the High Holidays, a beloved rabbi nearing retirement and an author chronicling the search for his replacement mourn and remember their fathers.
Charting the Next Course(s)
“Building on Excellence” charts the next five years.
Bigger Baby, Heavier Paycheck
Link found between birth weight and pay
Nintendo, Limp Bizkit, and … God
Losing their religion (Not!)
The Sweet Taste of (Socially Conscious) Success
“The community feeds us, and we feed the community.”
An Apple a Day Keeps the Writers Block Away
The Appling of Kelly Writers House
On the Dreaded Day, an Elusive Burd Visits the Electricity Room
Exam anxiety, in 1765
Finds on Film
Photos from a century of fieldwork at the University Museum
Another Opening
The football team is looking for some new stars.
Leaving and Coming Back
For a century the Gazette has been reporting on the annual rite of spring —Alumni Weekend and Commencement —in which alumni renew their ties with Penn and each other and the latest set of graduates says goodbye to their student days.
“Yea-a-a … Who?”
Ever wondered where “Rowbottoms” came from, why they call it “Hey Day,” or what flings in the spring? Here are attempts at explanations—with illustrative excerpts—of some Penn traditions past and present.
Alumni Weekend 2002
Alumni Weekend 2002
Changing Times
Our fourth Centennial timeline: 1961-1981.
The Student View
From freshman “dinks” to women’s “streaks”—and beyond. Some glimpses of campus life over the decades, as seen by the Gazette’s student columnists.