A Life Worth Living
Thanks to advanced technology and the family, friends, colleagues, and caretakers who make up his “crew,” Penn neuroscientist and alumnus Scott Mackler continues to function professionally and personally a decade after being diagnosed with the lethal neurodegenerative disease ALS.
The Future of Our Past
Penn’s Architectural Conservation Laboratory takes a rigorous approach to historic preservation.
Sunrise in Philadelphia
On a crisp September day, the delegates to the Constitutional Convention gathered to sign the document they’d hammered out over the long, hot summer of 1787, flaws and all. An excerpt from Plain, Honest Men by History Professor Richard Beeman. Plus: An interview with the author.
Alumni Weekend 2009
Alumni Weekend 2009 Slideshow
Crossing the Street
It’s just a short walk from Penn’s campus to the Philadelphia Veterans Affairs Medical Center, but for the hundreds of medical students and residents who train there the experience can be transformative.
Not Just For Kids
Our adult obsession with youth sports isn’t just unsettling. It’s tradition.
Four Years End Not With a Bang, But a Twitter
Commencement: “THE BIG DAY IS HERE!”
Honorary Degrees
Honorands
Penn Names New Provost
Vincent Price named provost
A Year of Challenges and Opportunities in Admissions
Admissions Dean Eric Furda C’87 on his freshman year
Reader, Have You No Spine?
How books are different from the Web
Givology
Recent grads launch charity website Givology
New Leader Brings a “Unique Set of Skills” to University City District
New UCD Director Matthew Bergheiser WG’96
The “Dark Matter” of Social Interaction
“Surprising disconnect” between pay and work quality
Taking the Skeleton out of Jewish History’s Closet
Examining “Jews, commerce, and culture”
The Vet School’s VMD/PhD Program at 40
VMD/PhD program turns 40
Century of a Snail
Century-old snail shells prompt new discovery
A Triumph in Ten Acts
Penn Relays decathlon-winner Max Westman C’09
The Vital Thread of Tom Sugrue
In The Origins of the Urban Crisis and now Sweet Land of Liberty, Penn historian Thomas Sugrue has shattered the conventional narrative about the struggle for Civil Rights in this country. The new book was published on the same day a black man was elected president; still, says Sugrue, “We’ve got a lot of overcoming to do.”
Ultimate Fundraising Championship
Philanthropy at the end of a fist. Grad students beyond thunderdome. Chin-rattlers. Brain-shakers. Welcome to Fight Night.
Intelligent Designs
Three Penn alumni are making their mark on fashion with clothing and accessories that are both thoroughly functional and very easy on the eyes.
1,700 Mayors for a Day
Building the “muscles of citizenship”
The Vaccine Evangelist
Answering autism’s “false prophets”
Findings
Learning from the Unexpected, The Bachelor Blues, and Swallowing the Holiday-Suicide Myth