PennDesign Gets a New Name
School of Design named for Stuart Weitzman W’63.
Go Long
Penn’s football team spent spring break in China.
A Star Is Born
Basketball: women share Ivy title; men’s up-and-down season.
Scoreboard
From Feb. 8 to April 5
The Luckiest
Mark Zoller C’07 enters the Big 5 Hall of Fame alongside his old coach and "legend" Fran Dunphy.
From Alumna Pen to Stimulus Stage
Jessica Penzias C’12 has found a niche writing musicals for kids—and Stimulus Children's Theatre gave one of her shows its world premiere in November.
“It Was Like Living In a Dream”
Twenty-five years later, players, coaches, journalists, and fans look back on Penn’s last NCAA Tournament win.
Stuffed
Hoarding unpacked at Wolf Humanities Center.
‘Coding Is Something Everyone Can Do’
FemmeHacks, Penn’s all-women hackathon, opens new doors in a welcoming environment.
What’s that Playing…in the Library?
The Penn Libraries have launched a new concert series, which sends student music groups into libraries at Penn to perform among the books and study carrels.
Peter Whinnery Is Packing Up Shop
After 36 years, tech advisor Peter Whinnery is bowing out.
Amazing Scientific Finding! (Wanna Bet?)
Taking bets on research replicability pays off.
To Infinity and Beyond
Digital Media Design program turns 20.
Engineered Spinal Discs
Penn team implants engineered spinal discs in goats.
Resiliency by Design
New PennDesign program launches with roundtable on resilience.
Rhodes Scholars
Rhodes scholars Anea Moore and Adamseged Abebe.
Five Yard Solution
Kickoff rule change cut concussions.
Taiyuan Tower
Basketball journeys beginning and ending.
Scoreboard
From Dec. 6, 2018 to Feb. 7, 2019
William Walker’s Dark Destiny
Newly settled in Costa Rica, a recent alumnus investigates the legacy of “filibuster” William Walker M1843—largely forgotten in the US but still perhaps the most hated man in Central America.
The Virality Paradox
Damon Centola thinks the contemporary wisdom about how behavior spreads is missing something fundamental—and that may be why mindless trivialities crowd out civic engagement. Can anything be done? He has an idea or two.
Beyond the Binary
For 40 years, Mariette Pathy Allen GFA’65 has focused her camera on gender identity and expressions of gender. Through portraits of men who identified as crossdressers in the 1980s—and later, through photos of the transgender community and trans rights movement—she has shined a light on people who were often pushed to the margins of society. Some consider her the unofficial photographer of transgender life. But finding her place in the fine art world has been another story.
The Outsiders
Celebrating the University’s most storied sports team on its 40-year anniversary.
Finding Love on 33rd Street
How chance encounters at Franklin Field and the Palestra shaped the story of one Penn family.