Professor Quagmire
A Chronicle of Campus Changes Through One Absent Mind
An Affair to Remember
The dismissal of Economics Professor Scott Neering taught the University a valuable lesson—the hard way.
The Philly and the Ivy
Big 5, small consolation?
Penn Between the Wars: 1919-1940
Boom, bust, and the University’s bicentennial.
Hello, Dr. Chips
An emeritus English professor and frequent Gazette contributor looks at how Penn's faculty has been portrayed in the magazine during its first century.
Medical School Gets Sweet Diabetes Grant
$15.5 million to medical school to study juvenile diabetes FDA rejects
What Price Religious Freedom?
Faith and freedom
Report of Higher Death Rates Disputed by HUP
HUP faults report of higher death rates in 2000
Nobel, Nobel, on the Wall …
Six Nobels and counting on chemistry’s wall of fame
The Art of Youthful Exhibitionism
Undergrads “leave a mark” at Arthur Ross Gallery
Turning Back the Clock on Stem Cells
Advance may produce stem cells without using embryos
Wilson’s Explanation Rejected
Wilson letter on gene-therapy trial
Pondering the Ethics and Science of Stem Cells
Panel examines stem-cell ethics and science
A Selective (Old) Penn Chronology 1902-1918
Our first Centennial timeline covers 1902 to 1918, when Old Penn becomes the Gazette (and World War I ended).
Tweaking History … and Everything Else
Looking back at one of the Gazette's favorite illustrators
Browsing Penn’s Cyber Stacks
Scattered collections, brittle diaries, rare artifacts, handwritten plays, and more are flashing across computer screens worldwide, via the University's groundbreaking digital library project.
James Thomson and the Holy Grail
In 1998, graduate alumnus Dr. James Thomson won the race to isolate and culture human stem-cells for a sustained period—one of the holy grails of medical science—but he can’t outrun the controversy generated by his work. Increasingly, he isn’t trying.
Homecoming 2001
Homecoming 2001
100 Years of the Gazette
The first century of Penn's alumni magazine
So Close …
Football falls short, and men’s basketball starts strong.
Buying up the Wind
Penn becomes largest retail buyer of wind energy
The Peace of Trees
Finding a respite in nature
Preparing for Smallpox … Again
Finding new weapons against smallpox
Jury Says Penn Guilty of Gender Bias
Jury says hiring woman crew coach was sexual discrimination