The Next Step
After finishing their record-breaking track & field careers at the NCAA Championships, 2016 graduates Sam Mattis and Thomas Awad are looking ahead to the Olympic trials -- and beyond.
Finding Pennovation
From College Hall, May|June 2016
Paw Power
Rachel Cohen C’12 founded and Penny Ellison L’98 runs Hand2Paw.
Out of the Submarine, Into the Work Force
Steve Weiner WG’16’s VetTechTrek matches veterans with tech firms.
Quaker Women Take The Ivy Crown
Women’s basketball team are Ivy champions.
That Roosevelt
Penn Law professor, legal scholar, and novelist Kermit Roosevelt III is doing his best to live up to the family name—including, in his latest book, by tackling cousin Franklin’s executive order authorizing the confinement of more than 100,000 Japanese Americans in internment camps during World War II.
Complicated
From the Editor, Jan|Feb 2016
Having It All and Keeping It Too
Lisa Green C’82’s legal guide for women, On Your Case.
The Shapes of Things to Come
Haresh Lalvani Gr’81 believes there’s a universal code for architecture and sculpture—a “morphological genome” that determines the shape of built structures, similar to the way that DNA shapes living things. And he’s well into the process of decoding it.
Great Balls of Fire
Sandra Vlock GAr’85’s fire pits and fire screens are functional, fine art.
Passion Projects
Paul Downs EAS’85 and Jacob Lief C’99 have each had just one job since graduating from Penn—the former as the owner of Paul Downs Cabinetmakers and the latter heading up the nonprofit Ubuntu Education Fund. While their ventures are very different, these two alumni share an extraordinary degree of persistence and a rare candor.
The Gift
When a Penn-CHOP team performed the world’s first double hand transplant on a child last summer, the landmark operation generated headlines around the world and young Zion Harvey became a YouTube star. But there’s a lot more to the story.
When the Going Gets Weird, Start Mixing Drinks
Novel take on Hunter S. Thompson. Gonzo Girl.
Behind the Baton at the PSO
Thomas Hong, Penn Symphony Orchestra’s new director.
Extreme Makeover: Debate Edition
No argument: Presidential debates need fixing.
Baby Mama
After overcoming her own infertility, Melissa Brisman has helped hundreds of couples become parents as a legal entrepreneur in the little-discussed realm of pregnancy for pay.
Healing Invisible Wounds
Yochi Dreazen had seen his share of death and combat trauma
as a military journalist in Iraq and Afghanistan. But it wasn’t until he
met an American general and his family that he learned how deep
that trauma can go, and what needs to be done to heal it.
The Many Songs of David
Rabbi David Wolpe is an admired writer, the popular leader of one of the largest Conservative Jewish congregations in the country, and one of the “50 most influential Jews in the world.” His latest book, David: The Divided Heart, delves into one of the Bible’s most fascinating—and human—characters.
The Link
As the nation’s first medical school celebrates its 250th anniversary, a look back at how generations of students, faculty, and alumni have served their country, delivered the finest patient care, and advanced medical research and education here in Philadelphia and around the world.
Bankoff’s Time
Is Vox Media CEO James Bankoff WG’96 a Henry Luce for the Digital Age?