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The Pennsylvania Gazette serves as the alumni magazine for the University of Pennsylvania. With a collection of awards recognizing its writing and design, the Gazette features engaging articles and updates about campus life, as well as notes and feedback from alumni. It is crafted for alumni, about alumni, and often by alumni, providing a diverse perspective that reflects the varied experiences of the Penn community. The Gazette is dedicated to showcasing the richness and diversity of what it means to be part of Penn.

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Mar|Apr 2025

1 month ago | thepenngazette.com | JoAnn Greco |John Prendergast |Mary Meyers

Download a PDF of this issueMarch | April 2025Vol. 123, No. 4Rebuilding Together Philadelphia is repairing homes one at a time to strengthen neighborhoods and build generational wealth. Plus: An archaeological dig reveals Black Bottom history in “What Lies Beneath.”By JoAnn Greco In a varied and decades-long career as a photographer and videographer Charlie Steiner C’68 has traveled around the world. But he still keeps coming back to the 1960s on Penn’s campus, where he got his start.
Building Blocks

1 month ago | thepenngazette.com | JoAnn Greco

Rebuilding Together Philadelphia is repairing homes one at a time to strengthen neighborhoods and build generational wealth. By JoAnn Greco | Photography by Michael BranscomSidebar | An archaeological dig reveals Black Bottom history in “What Lies Beneath.”Sitting on a sofa in her West Philadelphia living room, Carol Pettis folds her hands in her lap and smiles politely at the prospect of being interviewed. Suddenly, though, her face breaks into a broad smile.
On Highway 67 (and Beyond)

1 month ago | thepenngazette.com | John Prendergast

In a varied and decades-long career as a photographer and videographer Charlie Steiner C’68 has traveled around the world. But he still keeps coming back to the 1960s on Penn’s campus, where he got his start. By John Prendergast | Photography by Charles SteinerFor years the photographer and videographer Charlie Steiner C’68 has been tinkering with a project he calls Highway 67 Revisited.
The New World of Organ Transplantation

1 month ago | thepenngazette.com | Mary Meyers

Penn’s latest advances and future hopes for saving and improving lives through transplant technologies build on a foundation laid down by pioneering surgeons and scientists going back to the 1960s. By Mary Ann Meyers | Illustration by Gracia LamSidebar | “Deep Cut” reviews a history of surgery at Penn.
Course Corrections

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.
Every Bite, Every Day

Jan 3, 2025 | thepenngazette.com | Dave Zeitlin

What 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 Zeitlin | Photography by Tommy Leonardi C’89It’s a warm Friday afternoon in early October, and Jax Bari is doing what an 11-year-old should be doing: he’s getting dirty. Off from school for fall break, Jax is strolling around Penn’s campus with his father Jon Bari C’89, mother Leslie, and sister Lexi, a second-year student at Wharton.
Jan|Feb 2025

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.
The Price They Paid

Oct 24, 2024 | thepenngazette.com | Dan Rottenberg

The last of Penn football’s “Mungermen” recall the painful transition from big-time football to the Ivy League 70 years ago—including a University president’s short-lived “Victory with Honor” campaign, a not-so-harmonious “harmony dinner,” and the unceremonious exits of a legendary football coach and controversial athletic director.
Sculpting a Life Story

Oct 24, 2024 | thepenngazette.com | JoAnn Greco

From legendary athletes to historical luminaries, sculptor Zenos Frudakis FA’82 GFA’83 has created some monumental works of art. By JoAnn Greco | Photography by Michael BranscomMuhammad Ali was always larger than life, but encountering him in the middle of a sunlit barn in the Philadelphia suburbs is especially startling. That’s partly because he’s split in half. Head slightly tilted, his gloved fists are poised to sting like a bee.
After the Rain

Oct 24, 2024 | thepenngazette.com | Dennis Drabelle

A dispatch from Asheville in the wake of Hurricane Helene. By Dennis DrabelleTo paraphrase a lyric from the 1956 Broadway musical My Fair Lady: in Asheville, Weaverville, and Hendersonville, hurricanes hardly ever happen. Or so almost everyone living in and around those western North Carolina towns believed—not least my partner, Mike, and I. Weren’t we hundreds of miles inland from both the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean?