The Pennsylvania Gazette

11/01/2025

The Penn Museum is giving virtual visitors a closer view with its new Visual Experience Platform. “This new platform presents a great opportunity to bring in new features and methods of engagement,” says Jennifer Brehm, the Merle-Smith Director of Learning and Public Engagement.
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Read more in "From All Angles" in our Nov|Dec issue. 👉 https://thepenngazette.com/from-all-angles/
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📝: JoAnn Greco | 📸: Penn Museum | 🏷️:

The Penn Museum is giving virtual visitors a closer view.

10/31/2025

A recent Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics seminar looked at lessons from the pandemic.
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Read more in " Pandemic Lessons" in our Nov|Dec issue. 👉 https://thepenngazette.com/pandemic-lessons/
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📝: John Prendergast C'80 | 🎨: John Tomac | 🏷️:

LDI panel looks for lessons from the pandemic.

10/31/2025

With higher education “facing significant headwinds,” Penn’s Class of 2029 is called upon to unite.
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Read more in "Collaboration and Community" in our Nov|Dec issue. 👉 https://thepenngazette.com/collaboration-and-community/
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📝: Dave Zeitlin C'03 | 📸: Eric Sucar, University Communications | 🏷️:

“Collaboration … is our superpower.”

10/30/2025

Well over a century since it was first identified and following decades of intensive research, Alzheimer’s disease continues to withhold its essential secrets and a cure remains elusive. But recent drug treatments, improvements in diagnostic techniques, and other developments constitute what one Penn Medicine leader calls the “dawn of a new era” in confronting its impacts on patients and caregivers.
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Read more in "Alzheimer’s Now" in our Nov|Dec issue. 👉 https://thepenngazette.com/alzheimers-now/
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📝: Mary Ann Meyers Gr'76| 🎨: Chris Gash | 🏷️:

Well over a century since it was first identified and following decades of intensive research, Alzheimer’s disease continues to withhold its essential secrets and a cure remains elusive. But recent drug treatments, improvements in diagnostic techniques, and other developments constitute what one P...

10/30/2025

For most of her life, conservation journalist Artis Henderson C’02 W’02’s late father had been kept a dark secret. Then she went on an expedition to learn about his adventurous existence as a dad, husband, pilot, remote island owner, and international drug smuggler—as well as “the accident” 40 years ago that killed him (and nearly her).
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Read more in "A Daughter’s Reckoning" in our Nov|Dec issue. 👉 https://thepenngazette.com/a-daughters-reckoning/
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📝: Dave Zeitlin C'03 | 📸: Artis Henderson C'02 | 🏷️:

For most of her life, conservation journalist Artis Henderson C’02 W’02’s late father had been kept a dark secret. Then she went on an expedition to learn about his adventurous existence as a dad, husband, pilot, remote island owner, and international drug smuggler—as well as “the accident...

10/28/2025

Weitzman School alumni and faculty are prominent in a movement to make US playgrounds more challenging, stimulating, educational—and fun!—for users of all ages.
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Read more in "Tossing Out the Playbook" in our Sep|Oct issue. 👉 https://thepenngazette.com/tossing-out-the-playbook/
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📝: JoAnn Greco | 📸: Greg Benson | 🏷️:

Weitzman School alumni and faculty are prominent in a movement to make US playgrounds more challenging, stimulating, educational—and fun!—for users of all ages.

10/27/2025

Our Nov|Dec 2025 cover stories include:

✔️ Weitzman School alumni and faculty make playgrounds more fun
✔️ Artis Henderson C’02 W’02's new book shines a light on her father's dark secret
✔️ Penn Medicine is at the forefront of Alzheimer's research
✔️ Penn SAS celebrates the 238th anniversary of the US Constitution

Read the issue on our website 👉 https://thepenngazette.com/novdec-2025/

09/19/2025

Thanks to Ke-An Chiang GFA’25, the Greenfield Intercultural Center now outranks College Hall as the oldest building owned by Penn.
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The three-story, white stucco building with green trim at 3708–12 Chestnut Street is a recent addition to the Philadelphia Register of Historic Places, after being nominated by Chiang while she was a student in the Weitzman School of Design.
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Read more in "A Villa in the City" in our Sep|Oct issue. 👉 https://thepenngazette.com/a-villa-in-the-city/
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📝: Nicole Perry | 📸: Courtesy Philadelphia Historical Commisssion | 🏷️: Greenfield Intercultural Center University of Pennsylvania Stuart Weitzman School of Design

A new oldest Penn building.

09/18/2025

Ami Parekh C’12 is a championship skater turned physician and teacher.
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Read more in "Figure Skating It Out" in our Sep|Oct issue. 👉 https://thepenngazette.com/figure-skating-it-out/
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📝: Tasmiha Khan | 📸: Victor Fraile | 🏷️:

Ami Parekh C’12 is a championship skater turned physician and teacher.

09/18/2025

What the days (and nights) are like for an international lobbyist and nightlife entrepreneur Vinoda Basnayake L’08.
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Read more in "Power and Parties" in our Sep|Oct issue. 👉 https://thepenngazette.com/power-and-parties/
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📝: Alyson Krueger C’07 | 🎨: George Kevin Jordan | 🏷️:

Vinoda Basnayake L’08 wrote the “least boring” admissions essay.

09/17/2025

As executive director of of Friends of the Wanamaker Organ, Ray Biswanger C’75 is instrumental in preserving the world’s largest functioning pipe organ.
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Read more in "The Organ Protector" in our Sep|Oct issue. 👉 https://thepenngazette.com/the-organ-protector/
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📝: Samantha Drake CGS’06 | 📸: Michael Branscom | 🏷️:

Ray Biswanger C’75 watches over the Wanamaker Organ.