The Pennsylvania Gazette

Our Mar|Apr 2026 issue has just been posted online! View the entire magazine here. 👀 thepenngazette.com/marapr-2026/

.@ZekeEmanuel explains how to live well (and maybe longer, but that’s not really the point). * Read more in "Useful Advice” in our Mar|Apr issue. 👉 thepenngazette.com/useful-advice/ * 📝: John Prendergast C'80 | 🎨: Graham Roumieu | 🏷️: #aging #longevity #newbook #health #wellness

Omar Hafez C’26 crowned College Squash Association individual champion. * Read more in "Another Men’s Squash Title” in our Mar|Apr issue. 👉 thepenngazette.com/another-mens-s… * 📝: Dave Zeitlin C'03 | 📸: Penn Athletics | 🏷️: #squash @PennSquash

Penn’s campus home for Asian students turns 25. * Read more in "No Rough PAACHes” in our Mar|Apr issue. 👉 thepenngazette.com/no-rough-paach… * 📝: Molly Petrilla C’06 | 🎨: Laura Liedo | 🏷️: #panasianamerican #paach

Filmmaker Spike Lee recalls his harrowing civil rights documentary during a lively campus visit. | 📝: Dave Zeitlin C'03 | 📸: Eddy Marenco courtesy the Center for Africana Studies | 🏷️: #spikelee #mlk #film #civilrights thepenngazette.com/social-justice…

Tracing the history of American English, one slip at a time. An excerpt from “Unabridged: The Thrill of (and Threat to) the Modern Dictionary” by Stefan Fatsis C’85. Plus: A Q&A with the author. | 🎨: Hadley Hooper | 🏷️: #EnglishLanguage #dictionary thepenngazette.com/paper-record/

Having long battled sexist neglect of her own work, Denise Scott Brown GCP’60 GAr’65 Hon’94 has cemented her position as a major figure in 20th-century architecture and urbanism. Photography has been key to her influence. thepenngazette.com/the-eye-of-den…

Remembering Penn’s first women in architecture. | 📝: Sidney Wong and Annie Liang-Zhou | 🎨: Jonathan Bartlett | 🏷️: #architecture #womenshistory #womeninarchitecture thepenngazette.com/a-degree-too-l…

Wharton's legacy lives on in many big and small ways, including the physical reminders of his work throughout campus. In re-reading his founding principles for the school, this quote stood out, as the charge to advance our surrounding communities feels just as urgent today.

Synthetic text extrusion. Virtual teaching assistants. Illusions of mastery. Silicon Socrates. Four years after the debut of ChatGPT, higher education is starting to look different. | 📝: Trey Popp | 🎨: Chad Hagen | 🏷️: #aiinclassroom #education #highered thepenngazette.com/education-on-d…

Our Mar|Apr cover stories include: ✔️ How is AI affecting the way students learn? ✔️ Remembering Penn’s first women in architecture. ✔️ The photographic eye of architect Denise Scott Brown GCP’60 GAr’65 Hon’94. ✔️ Tracing the history of American English. thepenngazette.com/marapr-2026/

One hundred years ago, at the US’s sesquicentennial, Penn’s booth presenting the story of higher education in America won a gold medal. | 📝: Nicole Perry | 📸: Courtesy Penn Archives | 🏷️: #sesquicentennial #lovepenn #educationhistory #highereducation thepenngazette.com/education-on-d…

Amanda Shulman C’15 got a Michelin star for Her Place Supper Club. | 📝: Trey Popp | 📸: Michael Branscom | 🏷️: #michelinstar #restaurant #food #philadelphia @MichelinGuideNA thepenngazette.com/from-off-campu…

“Film can do so much—it can inspire and engage and unite and entertain,” says J. Andrew Greenblatt WG’23, who heads the @PhillyFilmSoc. “My biggest accomplishment so far is to help make that contribution to Philadelphia." | 📝: @joanngreco thepenngazette.com/the-reel-deal/

To have a bird brain, as Sonia Kleindorfer C’88 might see it, would be a compliment, not an insult. For more than 25 years, this avian ecologist has studied the surprising linguistic abilities and behaviors of birds, often with startling results. thepenngazette.com/birds-eye-view/

A career-spanning essay collection by John Edgar Wideman C’63 Hon’86 was published in November by Scribner. | 📝: Julia M. Klein | 🏷️: #newbook #essays thepenngazette.com/essayist-uncag…

Penn’s new Art Match program turns dorm rooms into (temporary) galleries. For a $20 rental fee, students can borrow pieces created by Penn alumni from the Penn Art Collection to hang on their own wall for a year. | 🎨: Madeline Adams C’00 thepenngazette.com/art-stewards/

A monumental, mirage-like sculpture was installed in Harrison Garden that is turning heads. Jaume Plensa’s Rui Rui is a gift from Glenn Fuhrman W’87 WG’88 and Amanda Fuhrman C’95. | 📝: Trey Popp | 📸: Tommy Leonardi C'89 | 🏷️: #publicart #sculpture thepenngazette.com/rui-rui/

"There are a lot of aspirations in these narrow alleys," writes Alexei Dmitriev G’88 of his time volunteering in Southern Delhi’s Kalkaji neighborhood. | 🏷️: #kalkaji #india #volunteering thepenngazette.com/learning-in-ka…

“Glasgow has a bonnie wee subway,” writes David Seltzer WG’76 in this excerpt from his book on the art and design of subway systems around the world. | 📸: Robert Mason | 🏷️: #subway #urbantransit #trains #scotland #glasgow thepenngazette.com/a-clockwork-or…