March Madness Restored
Hoop dreams at Penn, Philadelphia, and beyond.
A National Maelstrom and a National Champion
Lia Thomas’s NCAA championship.
Trustees Elect Magill Penn’s Next President
After the vote, she praised the University’s “impatience” as a virtue.
For Penn Museum, Will Less Be More?
Staff cuts at Penn Museum
Values in Action
From the Editor | Presidential pick Magill, food (equity) fighter Matysik.
The Hunger to End Hunger
As the head of the largest hunger relief organization in the Philadelphia region, George Matysik is passionate about rooting out food insecurity, reducing food waste, and reimagining school lunches. His work ethic and drive were molded during an unorthodox, decade-long journey through Penn.
Rescue Mission
Overstressed, poorly paid, and underappreciated, veterinarians are at increased risk for depression and suicide. Support efforts are underway at peer organizations like Not One More Vet, headed by alumna Carrie Jurney, and at Penn’s School of Veterinary Medicine.
Letters
Mar|Apr 2022: Eiseley remembered, Mask and Wig’s funny history, and more.
Meet Liz Magill
The UVA provost and former Stanford Law dean has been nominated to be Penn’s ninth president.
Finding a New Normal
Ezekiel Emanuel believes we need to learn to live with COVID-19—and has a plan to get us there.
Omicron Causes Delays, New Requirements
Omicron fading as spring semester starts.
Course Connections
Four students in a Holocaust class last semester were children of alums who had taken the same class.
New Support for P1P and PIK
$18 million for Penn First Plus; a new PIK prof honoring Gutmann.
Lax Is Back
After two scuttled seasons, Penn’s national-caliber lacrosse teams return with lofty goals intact.
Penn Praxis at 10
Penn Praxis marks its first decade
Covid’s Long Shadow
Beyond the laboratory and bedside, Penn researchers are working to tease out the pandemic’s psychological, economic, and social impacts in areas from childcare to collective memory.
A First-Rate Version of Himself
Loren Eiseley G’35 Gr’37 was associated with no great discoveries in his field of anthropology, “awkwardly shy” and “not very comfortable with students” in the classroom, a disaster as Penn’s provost—and a writer of unmatched brilliance on the natural world and the human condition.
Homecoming 2021
The fall event’s Arts & Culture and other programming—and the Alumni Awards of Merit ceremony—continued to be virtual, but fans were back in the stands at Franklin Field for the football game.
The Timekeeper
As the president and CEO of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Rachel Bronson oversees its annual exercise in calculating the world’s proximity to annihilation—the Doomsday Clock —and efforts to get the public and political leaders to heed its warning and address the threats of nuclear weapons, climate change, and disruptive technologies.
Hospital of the Future
With Pavilion’s opening, the hospital of the future is here.
Penn Announces Five-Year, $750 Million Investment
$750 million committed for faculty and facilities.
Building Momentum
2,500 gather online for three-day Momentum 2021 conference.
The Rhythms of a Busy Campus, Once Again
Images from an almost normal semester.
A New Era for Mask and Wig
All-male no more: Mask and Wig votes to accept all genders.