Freshman Reading: Creativity in the Digital Age
Lessig: “Question what everyone else says is right”
“What Free Time?”
Webcasts let incoming freshmen “hear a voice and see a face”
Out of the Engineering Lab and into the Village
Engineering students volunteer for water project in Honduras
Eating Dirt for the Disc
Fools Fest is 72 hours of living, sleeping, and eating Ultimate Frisbee.
Life Lessons from a Coach
What a non-basketball-playing English major learned from Fran Dunphy.
Desi Dancing the Night Away
Getting down with Dhamaka
Lifting the Burden of School Loans
Penn replaces loans with grants for incomes under $50,000
Pocket Change
How a parent lost his wallet—but found something worth much more—at Penn.
The Times and the Times
The personal is still political.
Showcasing Undergraduate Research
Undergraduate researchers get CUREJ
At Five, Some Gains and Growing Pains
Asian American student group marks fifth anniversary
Room With a View
A picture worth two words: “Close curtains.”
Keeping up with the Freshmen
For this senior, a little forced socializing goes a long way.
A Four-Year “Road Trip” Begins
Convocation: “The ride of your lives is about to begin.”
After Katrina, Penn asks: “What Can We Do?”
Hurricane relief efforts
Making Connections
My job was to seek out the homeless, and talk to them.
Fine ’09 Meets Online
Freshmen orient themselves online
LEAPP of Faith
A new program at the School of Medicine is betting that matching students with chronically ill patients, who they then follow throughout their four-year curriculum, will help them to become better doctors.
A Walk in the Woods
An Alaska native returns to find her old path gone.
In Praise of Vanity
Penn Reading Project pick: Franklin’s autobiography
Building a Better Mousetrap, Hip Implant, Beach Towel …
Better minesweeper takes PennVention prize
Strangers and Friends
A chance encounter on a train transforms a trip.
Applying Themselves
Two well-meaning parents get swept up in college-admissions insanity.
Spring Break With a Difference
In search of civil-rights history