Students’ Spring Shows Go Virtual
In a year unlike any other, student performance groups have figured out how to take their spring shows virtual—in the process opening them up to broader audiences.
Fighting Poverty With Cash
Several decades since the last big income experiment was conducted in the US, School of Social Policy & Practice assistant professor Amy Castro Baker has helped deliver promising data out of Stockton, California, about the effects of giving people no-strings-attached money every month. Now boosted by a new research center at Penn that she’ll colead, more cities are jumping on board to see if guaranteed income can lift their residents out of poverty. Will it work? And will policymakers listen?
The Vaccine Trenches
Key breakthroughs leading to the powerful mRNA vaccines against COVID-19 were forged at Penn. That triumph was almost 50 years in the making, longer on obstacles than celebration, and the COVID-19 vaccines may only be the beginning of its impact on 21st-century medicine.
Webside Manner
Virtual healthcare by smartphone or computer helps physicians consult with and diagnose patients much more quickly, while offering them convenience and flexibility. The potential to save lives and improve efficiencies is tremendous. But can uncertain regulations and reimbursements, equity and access disparities, and shaky internet connections be surmounted?
Writing Lives
Middle school memories. Meditations on motherhood. A prismatic accounting of the self. A long life well and furiously lived: on new memoirs by Jordan Sonnenblick C’91, Courtney Zoffness C’00, Beth Kephart C’82, and Nick Lyons W’53.
On the Horizon
In-person Commencement, fall reopening, views to remember.
Extra Credit
Student-run credit union provides pandemic help and more.
Tuition and Aid for 2021–22 Academic Year
Tuition and financial aid for 2021–22 announced.
Whitney Soule Tapped as New Admissions Dean
Bowdoin’s Whitney Soule to head admissions.
Unlocking Futures
PEGOT John Legend C’99.
New Set of Wheels
Penn Vet takes care on the road with mobile unit.
New Era Dawning
Orphan Disease Center looks to a new era of advances.
Water Everywhere, For Everyone
Water Center focuses on equity.
Once Again, Play Ball!
Local games allowed.
Penn Athletic Director Departs for Brown
AD Grace Calhoun headed to Brown.
What It’s Like to Be a Composer During a Pandemic
Grad student Ania Vu Gr'22 is grappling with what it means to be a composer during a pandemic. Here she discusses the challenges, silver linings, and surprising ways that the past year has impacted her and other composers.
The History Wars
Education scholar Jonathan Zimmerman on how the US republic lost the ability to understand itself—and how we can help our children recover it.
The Humanist Is In
In a new book, Jason Karlawish GM’99, codirector of the Penn Memory Center, unravels the tapestry of Alzheimer’s science and history, and outlines the medical, social, and ethical challenges that lie ahead.
Black Education Before Brown
Andrew Feiler W’84 documents the Rosenwald schools, which educated hundreds of thousands of African Americans in the Jim Crow South.
Calling It
How John Lapinski and a squad of Penn faculty and students backing him up on the NBC News Decision Desk navigated an election season that was unprecedented—and could set a pattern for the future.
Masked Move-In
Students return to campus housing.
Fostering Youth Voices
Rhodes Scholar Mackenzie Fierceton C’20 SPP’21.
Woods Tapped to Run Penn Museum
Christopher Woods named Penn Museum director.
A Place for Pluralism
Rabbi Mike Uram on leaving Hillel after 15 years.