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Jan 3, 2025 | 
thepenngazette.com | Trey Popp
On the 65th anniversary of thePenn Course Guide, a deep dive into what contemporary Penn undergraduates actually study—and how their choices have changed over time. By Trey Popp | Illustration by Lincoln AgnewImagine, if you can bear it, a contemporary undergraduate registering for classes at Dear Old Penn. Depending on your age, or your politics, you may have heard enough about the Ivory Tower lately—to say nothing of kids these days—to recoil from the very thought of it.
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Jan 3, 2025 | 
thepenngazette.com | Trey Popp |Dave Zeitlin
Download a PDF of this issue January | February 2025Vol. 123, No. 3On the 65th anniversary of thePenn Course Guide, a deep dive into what contemporary Penn undergraduates actually study—and how their choices have changed over time.By Trey PoppWhat one Penn family is doing to raise awareness and research funds for celiac disease—and pursue a cure using mRNA technology pioneered by Drew Weissman. By Dave ZeitlinOur annual photo gallery. Plus: Alumni Awards of Merit and citations.
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Aug 26, 2024 | 
thepenngazette.com | Dave Zeitlin |Trey Popp |JoAnn Greco
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Aug 26, 2024 | 
thepenngazette.com | Trey Popp
Mother and daughter, Ghana. Harvey Finkle SW’61 and the photography of social justice. By Trey Popp | Photography by Harvey FinkleDownload a PDF of this articleOn Mother’s Day 2021, a year after macular degeneration forced him to call an end to half a century of documentary photography and photojournalism, Harvey Finkle SW’61 made a rare Facebook post.
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Jun 21, 2024 | 
thepenngazette.com | Trey Popp
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? By Trey Popp | Illustration by Tracy WalkerDownload a PDF of this articleExequiel Hernandez doesn’t literally teach his MBA students how to tie their shoes, but he does like to suggest that they’ve been doing it all wrong.
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Apr 24, 2024 | 
thepenngazette.com | Trey Popp
The first Penn student to submit a film as adoctoral dissertation has transformed it into a moving portrait of unsung labor. The first time he carriedhis camera down to Georgia to film Mexican tree planters on the job, Noam Osband Gr’17 planned to plant pine saplings alongsidethem. It was 2013, and the anthropology graduate student aimed to become thefirst in Penn history to submit a film as a doctoral dissertation.
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Feb 23, 2024 | 
thepenngazette.com | Trey Popp
From test-optional applications, to questions about ChatGPT, to the Supreme Court’s new limitations on considering race and ethnicity, college admissions are in flux. Admissions Dean Whitney Soule dissects the current state of play and how prospective applicants can navigate it.
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Dec 21, 2023 | 
thepenngazette.com | Trey Popp
Penn Libraries acquires two collections illuminating the inimitable Sun Ra.Penn never invited Sun Ra to perform on campus, and jazz historianJohn Szwed takes the blame. Szwed directed the University’s Center for UrbanEthnography and chaired the Department of Folklore and Folklife during the1970s—when the otherworldly jazz composer ran his legendarily idiosyncraticArkestra out of a rowhouse in the Germantown neighborhood of Philadelphia.
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Oct 27, 2023 | 
thepenngazette.com | Trey Popp |Julia Klein
Download a PDF of this issueNovember | December 2023Vol. 122, No. 2FeaturesAmanda Shulman C’15 has earned national acclaim with Her Place Supper Club, where she’s also bending stubborn industry standards around life balance and labor compensation. It all began with a jolt to Penn’s off-campus social scene. By Trey PoppThe Penn Women’s Center celebrates five decades of providing advocacy, advising, refuge, counseling, company, and tea.
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Oct 27, 2023 | 
thepenngazette.com | Trey Popp
Amanda Shulman C’15 has earned national acclaim with Her Place Supper Club, where she’s also bending stubborn industry standards around life balance and labor compensation. It all began with a jolt to Penn’s off-campus social scene. By Trey Popp | Photography by Michael BranscomAmanda Shulman C’15 liked to drop the Facebook post right into the lull between lunch and afternoon classes, when she knew her undergraduate peers would be itching for an online distraction. ATTENTION! It’s that time again.
