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In a spring panel discussion, author Jennifer Egan C’85 and Professor Dennis Culhane discussed how investigative journalism and social scientific research can combine forces to present the truth of homelessness.
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Read more in "Supporting Supportive Housing" in our Jul|Aug issue 👉 https://thepenngazette.com/supporting-supportive-housing/
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📝: JoAnn Greco | 🎨: | 🏷️:
Writer Jennifer Egan C’85 and SP2’s Dennis Culhane on homelessness.
"No longer dismissed as a muddy, mid-frequency alternative to vinyl, the cassette is hailed as an instrument whose audible quirks call for their own ways of listening," writes Rob Drew Gr’94 in a new book about the history of cassette tapes.
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Read more in "Your Hiss Is What I Miss" in our Jul|Aug issue 👉 https://thepenngazette.com/your-hiss-is-what-i-miss/
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📝: Rob Drew Gr’94 | 🎨: George Kevin Jordan | 🏷️:
Cassettes are cool.
Suchitra Mattai G’01 Gr’01 GFA’03 weaves vintage saris into dazzling soft sculptures at Socrates Sculpture Park.
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Read more in "Monoliths of Cloth" in our Jul|Aug issue 👉 https://thepenngazette.com/monoliths-of-cloth/
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📝: Trey Popp | 📸: By Scott Lynch courtesy Socrates Sculpture Park. | 🏷️:
Woven works by Suchitra Mattai G’01 Gr’01 GFA’03.
Isabella Whitaker C’24 capped her Penn track career in blazing, record-breaking fashion—and will be soon be headed to the Olympics as part of Team USA’s 4x400 relay pool.
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Read more in "A Blazing Career on the Track" in our Jul|Aug issue 👉 https://thepenngazette.com/a-blazing-career-on-the-track/
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📝: Dave Zeitlin C'03 | 📸: Courtesy Penn Athletics | 🏷️: Penn Athletics
Track’s Whittaker caps a special career at Penn.
William J. Goeckel C1895 L1896, a founding member of The University of Pennsylvania Band and composer of the iconic “The Red and Blue,” was commemorated during Alumni Weekend.
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Read more in "Renaissance Man Recaptured" in our Jul|Aug issue 👉 https://thepenngazette.com/renaissance-man-recaptured/
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📝: Dave Zeitlin C'03 | 📸: Courtesy Goeckel Family | 🏷️:
“Red and Blue” composer William J. Goeckel C1895 L1896 honored.
Wyatt Henseler C’24, the Ivy League’s all-time home run king, powered Penn back to the NCAA baseball tournament.
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Read more in "Wyatt’s World" in our Jul|Aug issue 👉 https://thepenngazette.com/wyatts-world/
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📝: Dave Zeitlin C'03 | 📸: Eric Sucar, courtesy University Communications | 🏷️: Penn Athletics
The Ivy League’s all-time home run king powered Penn back to the NCAA baseball tournament.
A turbulent year at Penn ends with a peaceful and joyous graduation ceremony for the Class of 2024.
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Read more and view our Commencement slideshow in "Overcoming Fear, Finding Love" in our Jul|Aug issue 👉 https://thepenngazette.com/overcoming-fear-finding-love/
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📝: Hannah Chang C’27 | 📸: Tommy Leonardi C’89 | 🏷️:
In a “hard year,” praise for a class “forged in the crucible of change.”
For more than 40 years—from Bill Clinton’s failed healthcare initiative to Barack Obama’s successful (if long contested) one and on into today’s most pressing issues around equity and best practices—Ruth Katz CW’74 has been instrumental in developing public healthcare policies.
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Read more in "Our Policies, Our Health" in our Jul|Aug issue 👉 https://thepenngazette.com/our-policies-our-health/
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📝: Kathryn Levy Feldman LPS’09 | 📸: Justin Tsucalas | 🏷️: The Aspen Institute
For more than 40 years—from Bill Clinton’s failed healthcare initiative to Barack Obama’s successful (if long contested) one and on into today’s most pressing issues around equity and best practices—Ruth Katz CW’74 has been instrumental in developing public healthcare policies.
Over the decade since it was launched as a “one-stop shop” for Penn faculty and programs seeking to translate research into products—and with a big help from two blockbuster discoveries—the Penn Center for Innovation has achieved record revenues and made the University a leader in forging partnerships “to move ideas from the inside to the outside.”
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Read more in "Making Things Happen" in our Jul|Aug issue 👉 https://thepenngazette.com/making-things-happen/
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📝: JoAnn Greco | 🎨: Mitch Blunt | 🏷️: Penn Center for Innovation
Over the decade since it was launched as a “one-stop shop” for Penn faculty and programs seeking to translate research into products—and with a big help from two blockbuster discoveries—the Penn Center for Innovation has achieved record revenues and made the University a leader in forging pa...
Thank you for joining us at Alumni Weekend 2024! Relive the event with our annual photo gallery. ❤️ 💙
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See more in "Alumni Weekend 2024" in our Jul|Aug issue 👉 https://thepenngazette.com/alumni-weekend-2024/
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📸: Tommy Leonardi C'89 | 🏷️:
Our annual photo essay.
Three prize-winning teams will design and undertake post-graduation projects that make a positive, lasting difference in the world.
Wharton's Zeke Hernandez hopes to bend the immigration debate toward a question rooted in his own research on capital investment and business formation: What do natives stand to gain?
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Read more in "The Newcomer Dividends" in our Jul|Aug issue 👉 https://thepenngazette.com/the-newcomer-dividend/
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📝: Trey Popp | 🎨: Tracy Walker Art | 🏷️: The Wharton School
Wharton’s Zeke Hernandez hopes to bend the immigration debate toward a question rooted in his own research on capital investment and business formation: What do natives stand to gain?
Our Jul|Aug 2024 cover stories include:
✔️ Wharton's Zeke Hernandez says immigration is a smart business move;
✔️ our annual photo essay of Alumni Weekend;
✔️ the Penn Center for Innovation translates research into products; and
✔️ Ruth Katz CW’74 develops public healthcare policies with Aspen Ideas Health.
Read the issue on our website 👉 https://thepenngazette.com/julaug-2024/
The late jazz legend Allan Jaffe W'57 was honored in his hometown of Pottsville, Pennsylvania, last month with a historical marker outside of his father's wallpaper and paint store on North Centre Street. Jaffe accredits his time working at his father's store to his success in managing Preservation Hall, a venue in New Orleans dedicated to preserving the culture and sound of jazz music. It is widely known as a must-visit destination in New Orleans. Jaffe was also instrumental in establishing the Preservation Hall Band in 1963, for which he played bass horn. He died in 1987 at the age of 51.
A community honored musician and Schuylkill County native Allan Jaffe who made waves in the New Orleans jazz scene in the 1960s.
Over a decade-long photographic journey, Christopher Payne GAr’96 has explored the world of American manufacturing, from pianos to jet engines, pencils to 3D-printed rockets.
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Read more in "The Making of Things" in our May|Jun issue 👉 https://thepenngazette.com/the-making-of-things/
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📝: John Prendergast C'80 | 📸: Christopher Payne GAr’96 | 🏷️: Christopher Payne Photography
Over a decade-long photographic journey, Christopher Payne GAr’96 has explored the world of American manufacturing, from pianos to jet engines, pencils to 3D-printed rockets.
Penn’s SNF Paideia Program aims to foster dialogue, civic engagement, community service, and wellness—and both students and faculty are enthusiastically signing on. But the program’s contours can be murky, and its role in bridging campus divisions remains a work in progress.
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Read more in "Creating Civil Citizens" in our May|Jun issue 👉 https://thepenngazette.com/creating-civil-citizens/
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📝: Julia M. Klein | 🎨: Martin Leon Barreto | 🏷️:
Penn’s Stavros Niarchos Foundation Paideia Program aims to foster dialogue, civic engagement, community service, and wellness—and both students and faculty are enthusiastically signing on. But the program’s contours can be murky, and its role in bridging campus divisions remains a work in prog...
On May 20, more than 9,000 students are eligible to graduate at the University-wide Commencement ceremony, and Penn will confer six honorary degrees.
Five years after his two teenage children were killed by a drunk driver, Colin Campbell C’91 is finding new ways to grieve—while helping others deal with bereavement through his new book, support groups, and a one-man show he calls the “feel-bad story of the year.”
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Read more in "Good Grief" in our May|Jun issue 👉 https://thepenngazette.com/good-grief/
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📝: Caren Lissner C’93 | 📸: Ethan Pines | 🏷️:
Five years after his two teenage children were killed by a drunk driver, Colin Campbell C’91 is finding new ways to grieve—while helping others deal with bereavement through his new book, support groups, and a one-man show he calls the “feel-bad story of the year.”
Congratulations to Penn music professor Tyshawn Sorey, who has been awarded the 2024 Pulitzer Prize in Music! Sorey, whom we profiled in our Sep|Oct 2023 issue, was recognized for his musical composition "Adagio (For Wadada Leo Smith)," a concerto for saxophone and orchestra that premiered in Atlanta last spring.
Take a listen below, while you read our cover story here: https://thepenngazette.com/time-stretcher/
Our May|Jun 2024 cover stories include:
✔️ Colin Campbell C’91 wants to talk about grief;
✔️ Penn’s Stavros Niarchos Foundation Paideia Program fosters civic engagement and community service;
✔️ Christopher Payne GAr’96 photographs American manufacturing; and
✔️ Penn labor and environmental economist R. Jisung Park assesses the implications of a warming world.
Read the issue on our website 👉 https://thepenngazette.com/mayjun-2024/
Edward Goodfellow C1848 G1851, spent his career at the US Coast and Geodetic Survey (a precursor to today’s National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration), working on the agency's eclipse expeditions.
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This photo from his collection is from the August 7, 1869, solar eclipse, which spanned across America from Alaska to North Carolina. It was one of the first popularized celestial events in the US.
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Read more in "'The Dark Day'" in our Mar|Apr issue 👉 https://thepenngazette.com/the-dark-day/
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📝: Nicole Perry | 📸: Courtesy University of Pennsylvania Archives | 🏷️: #1869
Looking back at the solar eclipse of 1869.
“My life was transformed during those minutes of totality,” says Debra Ross C’91, recalling the 2017 total solar eclipse in Missouri.
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“I was aware of four bodies in the entire universe: the sun, the moon, the earth, and me. You can read about celestial mechanics; you can watch Neil deGrasse Tyson; you can look through a telescope; but you feel the celestial mechanics with your body during an eclipse. You’re not just looking at something, you’re in something.”
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The experience ultimately led her to become cochair of the American Astronomical Society’s solar eclipse task force, which helped cities in the 2024 path of totality prepare for yesterday's extraordinary event.
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Read more in "Total Eclipse With Some Heart" in our Mar|Apr issue 👉 https://thepenngazette.com/total-eclipse-with-some-heart/
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📝: Robyn Ross | 🎨: Gracia Lam | 🏷️:
Debra Ross C’91 has Rochester, NY, ready for this April’s solar eclipse.
At the Commencement ceremony on Monday, May 20, Mukherjee will receive an honorary doctor of sciences degree, along with the other 2024 Penn honorary degree recipients.
Rabbi David Wolpe C’81 spoke with actor and Jewish advocate Jonah Platt C’08 at Penn’s annual Interfaith Commemoration of the Life of The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., which focused on allyship between the Black and Jewish communities.
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“The kinship of our communities is so important to me,” Platt said. “I’m very excited and hopeful for what’s on the horizon.”
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Read more in "Facing Hate with Allyship" in our Mar|Apr issue 👉 https://thepenngazette.com/facing-hate-with-allyship/
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📝: Dave Zeitlin C'03 | 🏷️:
Interfaith Commemoration highlights Black–Jewish allyship.
Dental School Dean Mark Wolff has been leading a University-wide task force to combat antisemitism on campus.
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“There’s a lot of hurt and pain when we look at our Jewish community on campus, when we look at our Muslim, Arab, and Palestinian communities on campus,” Wolff said. “That makes this both a very important mission, and it makes it a somewhat emotionally painful mission. It’s that combination, that exists for everybody, that’s most challenging.”
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Read more in "Fighting a Pernicious Evil" in our Mar|Apr issue 👉 https://thepenngazette.com/fighting-a-pernicious-evil/
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📝: Dave Zeitlin C'03 | 🎨: Melinda Beck | 🏷️:
The head of Penn’s task force on combating antisemitism on progress so far.
On January 2, Cherelle Parker G’16 LPS’16 was sworn in as the 100th mayor of Philadelphia—the first woman to hold the position. The 51-year-old former member of the Philadelphia City Council, who holds a master’s degree in public administration from Penn’s Fels Institute of Government, won a crowded Democratic primary last May and defeated Republican David Oh in November. She’s stressed that her administration will focus on public safety and providing economic opportunities for all residents. Among the Penn alums serving in Parker’s administration is Tiffany Thurman G’16 LPS’19, her chief of staff.
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Cherelle Parker G’16 LPS’16 is Philadelphia’s 100th—and first woman—mayor.
A fierce believer in the value of universities to society and a defender of academic freedom, Penn’s new volunteer leader is determined to ensure that “no one is afraid to be who they are” on campus.
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Read more in "Ramanan Raghavendran Elected Trustees Chair" in our Mar|Apr issue 👉 https://thepenngazette.com/ramanan-raghavendran-elected-trustees-chair/
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📝: John Prendergast C'80 | 🏷️: Penn Alumni
Ramanan Raghavendran EAS’89 W’89 LPS’15 elected trustees chair.
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Our Jul|Aug 2023 issue asks environmental science professor Michael E. Mann: "Can we still save the planet?" 🌎 We also celebrate two milestone birthdays: the Netter Center for Community Partnerships at Penn turns 30 and Morris Arboretum & Gardens of the University of Pennsylvania is 90! 🎉 Plus, so much more, including alumni news, books, and our annual photo essay of Alumni Weekend. 🔴 🔵 View the entire magazine here 👀 https://thepenngazette.com/julaug-2023/
Repost Institute of Contemporary Art: "ICA is pleased to be a partner with Jenny Holzer Studio in YOU VOTE, an initiative mobilizing a series of artworks to champion broad political engagement, issue awareness, and voter empowerment in anticipation of the 2020 US Presidential and Congressional elections. YOU VOTE foregrounds the voices of citizens, activists and get-out-the-vote efforts, joining forces with established organizations, from sports franchises to universities to cultural institutions. Starting now through November 3, this project will employ fleets of LED vehicles, light projections, billboards, theater marquees, murals, a variety of street level advertising, and social media animations to encourage civic participation ahead of Election Day. Forty billboards around the United States, with a focus on Florida, Michigan, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, will feature phrases such as PROTECT YOURSELF and BE AN ALLY and will be on view through Election Day. Simultaneously, dozens of LED vehicles will take to the streets to offer voter information, build voter excitement and celebrate early voting. Phrases featured in Holzer’s singular style are drawn from texts authored by many–such as the video above, featuring text by Susan B. Anthony–centered on issues of social and economic justice, gun control, climate change, immigration, voting rights, voter suppression and the erosion of fundamental democratic pillars such as truth, the rule of law, and government accountability." Download an artwork to share on social media here: https://bit.ly/350QmVk, and join the conversation by tagging @jennyholzerstudio and using the hashtag #YOUVOTE. Video: YOU VOTE 2020. Text by Susan B. Anthony. Copyright 2020 Jenny Holzer, member Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY. Animation by: Seth Brau. #ICAphiladelphia #Vote2020
Our Sep|Oct 2019 issue features an interview with President Amy Gutmann and PIK Professor Jonathan Moreno on their new book, which traces the history of bioethics and its promise for healthcare. We also highlight pioneering work at PennVet that could lead towards a cure for bone cancer in dogs and children. We lay out coach John Heisman L1892's contributions to football that made the sport safer. And we offer a look at PennDesign's latest exhibit "Design with Nature Now," ending September 15. Plus, so much more, including alumni news, books, and highlights of campus events. View the entire magazine here 👀: https://bit.ly/2rfsVEQ
Our May|Jun 2019 issue features Jonathan Rand C'02, "the most successful living American playwright no one has ever heard of"—because he writes for the high school stage. We also meet personal-finance guru Jean Chatzky C'86, who is guiding women to become competent managers of money with her latest book. And we hear from Nicholas Christakis G'92 Gr'95 GM'95, a physician and sociologist who believes, despite all evidence to the contrary, that the world is getting better. Plus, so much more, including alumni news, books, and highlights of campus events. View the entire magazine here 👀: https://bit.ly/2rfsVEQ Tags: Jean Chatzky Playscripts, Inc. Jonathan Rand
Our Mar|Apr 2019 issue features photographer Mariette Pathy Allen GFA'65, who has focused her camera on expressions of gender since the 1980s. We also explore Annenberg professor Damon Centola's theory of how behavior spreads in networks. And we take a look back at Penn Basketball's 1978–79 Final Four team on its 40th anniversary. Plus, so much more, including alumni news, books, and highlights of campus events. View the entire magazine here 👀: https://bit.ly/2rfsVEQ Tags: Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania Penn Athletics
The Nov|Dec 2018 Gazette features a host of good reads 📖, including a student essay on familial language; a look at Penn's links to slavery; a debate about birthright citizenship; a profile of a forgotten Penn English professor; a biography of Benjamin Rush, signer of the Declaration of Independence; an interview with professional basketball star Tyler Bernardini W'12; some World War I history; and much, much more, including alumni news and spotlights on campus events. View the entire magazine here 👀: https://bit.ly/2rfsVEQ
“The Red and the Blue” is one of the first school songs the Class of 2022 will hear as they start their Penn journey. The music was composed by William John Goeckel L1896 and words were written by Harry E. Westervelt C1898. Goeckel, a leader of the Glee Club, was also and considered one of Penn’s star baseball players. When he died on pneumonia in 1992, his obituary praised the song as “an anthem [that is] the rallying cry and focal point for all the hopes, aspirations and memories that together compose that indeterminate, but powerful factor called college spirit.” Last night, at the opening ceremony for University of Pennsylvania’s 279th year, Penn Glee Club and UPenn Quaker Notes were accompanied by the Penn Band in leading the crowd in a hearty rendition of “The Red and the Blue.” Hurrah! #lovepenn
Yannick Nezet-Seguin of the Philadelphia Orchestra, who was on campus to receive an honorary degree today, surprised the Penn Band by jumping out of the procession to conduct an impromptu song! Tags: University of Pennsylvania Amy Gutmann The Philadelphia Orchestra #penngrad #congratsgrads @yannicknezetseguinofficial @universityofpennsylvaniaband
Congratulations, #classof2017! You worked so hard for this. Enjoy your day! #graduation
