Threepeat Falls Short
Football falters, hoops hopeful
Penn Connected
With the opening of Penn Park in September, the University’s eastward expansion is now a reality. A brief history of what it took to transform this long-sought dead zone into an oasis.
Pointing the Way to the Pole
He didn’t find the Open Polar Sea he was looking for—and probably overestimated how far North he actually managed to get—but the Arctic discoveries of Isaac Israel Hayes M1853 helped set the course for later explorers. And that was just the first of his several careers.
The Spirit of Caring
They don’t diagnose illnesses, prescribe drugs, perform medical procedures, or suggest treatment options, but chaplains and other pastoral care staff are a key part of the medical team at Penn’s hospitals.
Some Words for Nixon
In an excerpt from his new memoir, Speechwright, William Gavin ASC’62 looks back at his time as a speechwriter for Richard Nixon, the first of several high-profile political figures he served.
Reprogrammed Immune Cells Vanquish Cancer in Promising Breakthrough
T-cell “serial killers” offer new hope for cancer treatment
$3.5 Billion Goal Met, But Still A Ways to Go
Making History campaign passes $3.5 billion mark
Brinster Awarded National Medal of Science
Vet school’s Ralph Brinster V’60 Gr’64 wins top US science award
Navigational Advice for the Class of 2015
Convocation 2011: Soggy start to a transforming journey
Center of the Graduate Universe
Grad Student Center marks 10 years of “creating graduate community”
New Wharton Center and Prize
$12 million to Wharton to support quantitative financial research
@Penn Engineering: #Majoring in Twitter
Tweet this: new engineering major focuses on networked systems
Building a Better Mortgage Market
Susan Wachter on the mortgage crisis and its solutions
You Are All Annenberg’s Children, Now
Iconic soap-opera scripts find home at Annenberg
The “Lower-Profile, Higher-Educated Emanuel” Brother Comes to Penn
13th PIK Professor: Health-policy expert Ezekiel Emanuel
New Program for Energy VIPERs
Vageloses give $13.6 million for new program in energy research
Seniors in Search of Success
Last chance at a title for men’s basketball’s senior class
A Century-long Losing Streak
Football’s losing streak against Villanova hits century mark
Driven
Rick Cohen C’87
A New Way to Diagnose Concussions on the Sideline?
The average high-school football player gets hit on the helmet up to 1,400 times in a season.
On Paying College Athletes
Wharton's Ken Shropshire agrees with Taylor Branch.
Horror and Hope
For some of the 14 Penn students who spent two weeks helping at the Agahozo-Shalom Youth Village for Rwandans orphaned in the country’s genocidal conflict, the experience brought back memories of personal tragedy. For all of them, it was a stark reminder of the horrors humans have inflicted on each other. But it was also an inspiring time, “all about hope, all about the future.”
The Other Health Care Revolutions
The Affordable Care Act may have gotten all the attention, but American medicine will be transformed even more profoundly by forces that neither the government, insurance companies, nor even doctors themselves can fully tame. It’s already happening, and three trends provide a preview of the shape of things to come.
The Perils of Parenting Style
Penn sociologist Annette Lareau says that the way middle class parents interact with their children promotes an “emerging sense of entitlement” that better equips them for success in the world.