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Thanks to Ke-An Chiang GFA’25, the Greenfield Intercultural Center now outranks College Hall as the oldest building owne...
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.

Ami Parekh C’12 is a championship skater turned physician and teacher.*Read more in "Figure Skating It Out" in our Sep|O...
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.

What the days (and nights) are like for an international lobbyist and nightlife entrepreneur Vinoda Basnayake L’08.*Read...
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.

As executive director of of Friends of the Wanamaker Organ, Ray Biswanger C’75 is instrumental in preserving the world’s...
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.

A new book by Abigail Leonard C’02 takes stock of motherhood in Japan, Kenya, Finland, and the US.*Read "Four Mothers, F...
09/17/2025

A new book by Abigail Leonard C’02 takes stock of motherhood in Japan, Kenya, Finland, and the US.
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Read "Four Mothers, Four Continents" in our Sep|Oct issue. 👉 https://thepenngazette.com/four-mothers-four-continents/
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📝: Molly Petrilla C’06 | 🏷️:

Abigail Leonard C’02’s Four Mothers.

Frequent Gazette contributor Daniel Akst C’78 is accepting contributions of his own with his latest venture as the found...
09/16/2025

Frequent Gazette contributor Daniel Akst C’78 is accepting contributions of his own with his latest venture as the founder and publisher of Tivoli Books.
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Read "Writer to Publisher" in our Sep|Oct issue. 👉 https://thepenngazette.com/writer-to-publisher/
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📝: John Prendergast C'80 | 🏷️:

Daniel Akst C’78 and Tivoli Books.

Jennifer Weber C’00’s high-octane, Tony-nominated choreography levitates And Juliet Broadway, a jukebox musical remix of...
09/16/2025

Jennifer Weber C’00’s high-octane, Tony-nominated choreography levitates And Juliet Broadway, a jukebox musical remix of Shakespeare’s "Romeo and Juliet," now in its third year at the Stephen Sondheim Theatre in New York.
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Read "Move Mixer" in our Sep|Oct issue. 👉 https://thepenngazette.com/move-mixer/
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📝: Julia M. Klein | 📸: Maria Baranova | 🏷️:

&Juliet choreographer Jennifer Weber C’00.

Penn’s Institute of Contemporary Art is presenting more than 60 of Mavis Pusey’s works alongside artist notes, correspon...
09/15/2025

Penn’s Institute of Contemporary Art is presenting more than 60 of Mavis Pusey’s works alongside artist notes, correspondence, and other ephemera—the first major museum survey dedicated to this painter and printmaker.
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"Mavis Pusey: Mobile Images" is on view through December 7.
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Read "Mavis Pusey at the ICA" in our Sep|Oct issue. 👉 https://thepenngazette.com/mavis-pusey-at-the-ica/
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📝: Trey Popp | 🎨: Mavis Pusey | 🏷️:

Mavis Pusey’s Mobile Images at the ICA.

Gerald Kamens C’56 listens to Gabriel Fauré’s "Requiem," in seven gentle movements.*Read "Diminuendo for a Dream" in our...
09/15/2025

Gerald Kamens C’56 listens to Gabriel Fauré’s "Requiem," in seven gentle movements.
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Read "Diminuendo for a Dream" in our Sep|Oct issue. 👉 https://thepenngazette.com/diminuendo-for-a-dream/
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📝: Gerald Kamens C’56 | 🎨: Chris Gash | 🏷️:

Fauré’s Requiem, Geneva, 1992.

David Porter C’82 fell in love with Philly from behind the wheel of a red-and-white United Cab during the summer of 1980...
09/12/2025

David Porter C’82 fell in love with Philly from behind the wheel of a red-and-white United Cab during the summer of 1980.
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Read "Student Driver" in our Sep|Oct issue. 👉 https://thepenngazette.com/student-driver/
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📝: David Porter C’82 | 🎨: David Hollenbach | 🏷️:

Behind the wheel on Philly’s mean—and educational—streets.

Norah Rami is a College senior and the editor-in-chief of the Daily Pennsylvanian’s 34th Street Magazine. Norah's essay ...
09/12/2025

Norah Rami is a College senior and the editor-in-chief of the Daily Pennsylvanian’s 34th Street Magazine. Norah's essay won first prize in the Gazette’s 2025 Undergraduate Essay Contest.
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Read "Counting Days" in our Sep|Oct issue. 👉 https://thepenngazette.com/counting-days/
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📝: Norah Rami C'26 | 🎨: Juan Bernabeu

“Oom Sha La La will take on a meaning of its own.”

Amid an ever-shifting college sports backdrop, Ivy League teams can now participate in the football playoffs.*Read more ...
09/11/2025

Amid an ever-shifting college sports backdrop, Ivy League teams can now participate in the football playoffs.
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Read more in "A New Chapter for Penn Football" in our Sep|Oct issue. 👉 https://thepenngazette.com/a-new-chapter-for-penn-football/
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📝: Dave Zeitlin C'03 | 📸: Hunter Martin courtesy Penn Athletics | 🏷️: University of Pennsylvania Football Penn Athletics

Ivy League now eligible for football playoffs; coaching changes.

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