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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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May|Jun 2025

3 weeks ago | thepenngazette.com | Dave Zeitlin |Alyson Krueger |Molly Petrilla

Download a PDF of this issueMay | Jun 2025Vol. 123, No. 5Through his unorthodox courses, religious studies professor Justin McDaniel is training Penn students how to immerse themselves in literature, disconnect from their phones, build lifelong bonds with classmates … and prepare for the inevitable emotional pain life will bring.
Welcome to Despair

3 weeks ago | thepenngazette.com | Dave Zeitlin

Through his unorthodox courses, religious studies professor Justin McDaniel is training Penn students how to immerse themselves in literature, disconnect from their phones, build lifelong bonds with classmates … and prepare for the inevitable emotional pain life will bring.
Rules of Engagement

3 weeks ago | thepenngazette.com | Alyson Krueger

Following a stint advising the US Department of Defense on warfare’s AI-inflected future, political science professor and Perry World House director Michael C. Horowitz is back at the helm of Penn’s “home for global policy engagement.”By Alyson KruegerDownload a PDF of this articleIn February 2023 the United States issued a declaration outlining how militaries should develop and deploy autonomous and artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities ethically, responsibly, and effectively.
Stewarding The Simpsons

3 weeks ago | thepenngazette.com | Molly Petrilla |A Career

In 1997, 25-year-old Matt Selman landed his dream job writing for The Simpsons. He’s still there today as head showrunner, striving to keep the 35-year-old animated series vital and surprising while also hanging on to its humor and heart. But how long will the show go on?
Close Your Eyes

3 weeks ago | thepenngazette.com | Caren Lissner

None of my new friends at Penn knew I lived in a car each summer. By Caren LissnerThree weeks after my freshman year of college ended in 1990 and I said goodbye to my new friends at Kings Court—after we’d hugged and packed up turntables, newfangled CD players, personal computers, and a few typewriters—I was sitting in the back of my mom’s Plymouth Duster in a strip mall parking lot in Woodstock, New York, watching heat lightning silently flash green and blue across the sky.
Architectural Afterlives

3 weeks ago | thepenngazette.com | JoAnn Greco

A new book explores buildings that have vanished—with a trace. By JoAnn GrecoAll that really remains of the row house that once stood stoutly at 1828 Rittenhouse Square is its outline, forever etched onto the exposed side of a regal Beaux Arts apartment building. Its only distinguishing features are a double chimney and the vague impressions—like thumbprints in cookie dough—of several upper floor windows.
The Gilded-Age Medievalist

3 weeks ago | thepenngazette.com | Dennis Drabelle

A new biography of Penn benefactor Henry Charles Lea paints the Philadelphia publisher, activist, real estate investor, and amateur historian as an exceptionally well-tutored man. By Dennis DrabelleFirst-rate scholarship by amateurs used to be a common feature of American intellectual life. Constance Rourke did not have a PhD in history or any other field; her 1931 book, American Humor: A Study of the National Character, has been republished as a New York Review of Books Classic.
Mar|Apr 2025

2 months 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

2 months 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)

2 months 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.