The Pennsylvania Gazette

11/10/2025

This year marks the 100th anniversary of a bouncy earworm of a song called “Collegiate,” written by Penn alumni Moe Jaffe W1923 L1926 and Nat Bonx L1925 while they were still students.
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The spirit of the song is best expressed by the energetically nonsensical refrain: “Collegiate, Collegiate. Yes! we are Collegiate. … We’re collegiate, Rah! Rah! Rah!”
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Read more in "Commemorating “Collegiate”," in our Nov|Dec issue. 👉 https://thepenngazette.com/commemorating-collegiate/
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📝: John Prendergast C'80 | 🏷️:

“Collegiate” is 100. “Rah! Rah! Rah!”

11/10/2025

Anita Hossain Choudhry WG’15 is combating loneliness as CEO and cofounder of The Grand, a group coaching platform.
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The premise is simple: that the executive coaching typically reserved for Fortune 500 leaders should be accessible to everyone, delivered in group settings where participants realize they’re not alone in their struggles.
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Read more in "Grand Ideas for Building Community," in our Nov|Dec issue. 👉 https://thepenngazette.com/grand-ideas-for-building-community/
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📝: Tasmiha Khan | 🎨: Laura Liedo| 🏷️:

Anita Hossain Choudhry WG’15 is combating loneliness with The Grand.

11/07/2025

Marilyn Fu C’99 wrote the screenplay for a new film, "Rosemead," inspired by true events. It hits theaters in New York on December 5, and in Los Angeles on December 12.

11/07/2025

Karen Fang C’94 shares what was lost when Chinese Camp, California, burned.
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“Those buildings were some of the last physical remnants of the early history of Chinese in America,” she writes. “Now that history had all gone up in smoke.”
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Read more in "Without a Trace," in our Nov|Dec issue. 👉 https://thepenngazette.com/without-a-trace/
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📝: Karen Fang C’94 | 📸: Karen Fang C’94 | 🏷️:

What was lost when Chinese Camp burned.

11/07/2025

Susanna Jaramillo EAS’19 juggles full-time careers in science and theater.
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Read more in "Bright Lights, Lab Nights," in our Nov|Dec issue. 👉 https://thepenngazette.com/bright-lights-lab-nights/
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📝: Molly Petrilla C’06 | 📸: Courtesy Susanna Jaramillo EAS’19 | 🏷️:

Susanna Jaramillo EAS’19 juggles full-time careers in science and theater.

11/06/2025

“What’s my native language?” asks Tania Gentic G’02 Gr’07. “In my family, it’s a question that’s never been easy to answer.”
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Read more in "Family Lexicon," in our Nov|Dec issue. 👉 https://thepenngazette.com/family-lexicon/
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📝: Tania Gentic G’02 Gr’07 | 🎨: Hadley Hooper | 🏷️:

Language lessons.

11/06/2025

Phil Korngut Gr’11 has helped launch NASA’s SPHEREx space telescope.
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“My time at Penn was invaluable to my training as a scientist, and got me to where I am now, which really is my dream job,” Korngut says.
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Read more in "Creativity and the Cosmos," in our Nov|Dec issue. 👉 https://thepenngazette.com/creativity-and-the-cosmos/
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📝: Susan Karlin C’85 | 📸: NASA | 🏷️:

Phil Korngut Gr’11 has helped launch NASA’s SPHEREx space telescope.

11/05/2025

Susan Fishman Orlins CW’67 searches for her final resting place in this Alumni Voices essay.
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“Green burial had a certain ring. I didn’t mind picturing my body nestled in a fairy-tale pasture for my final rest,” she writes.
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Read more in "Where Rolling Hills Meet the Sky," in our Nov|Dec issue. 👉 https://thepenngazette.com/where-rolling-hills-meet-the-sky/
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📝: Susan Fishman Orlins CW’67 | 🎨: Gracia Lam | 🏷️:

“If I had any further questions, I could call 1-240-Natural.”

11/05/2025

A new novel by Ben Yagoda G’91 locates the enigmatic author known as O. Henry within a richly detailed portrait of New York at the turn of the 20th century.
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Read more in "Telling Stories," in our Nov|Dec issue. 👉 https://thepenngazette.com/telling-stories/
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📝: John Prendergast C'80 | 🏷️:

Ben Yagoda G’91 on his novel, Alias O. Henry.

11/04/2025

A Penn Libraries exhibition surveys the remarkable afterlives of the great Greek thinker Aristotle. “Reinventing Aristotle” can be seen in the Goldstein Gallery through January 16.
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Read more in " Aristotle the Alchemist, Sexologist, Palm Reader, Papist, and Jew" in our Nov|Dec issue. 👉 https://thepenngazette.com/aristotle-the-alchemist-sexologist-palm-reader-papist-and-jew/
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📝: Trey Popp | 📸: Courtesy Penn Libraries | 🏷️:

Aristotle’s remarkable afterlives at Van Pelt Library’s Goldstein Gallery.

11/04/2025

The Arthur Ross Gallery revisits the upheaval of Basque Separatism through the lens of photojournalist Fernando Postigo CGS’71, in a new exhibition that runs through January 4.
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Read more in "Both Sides of the Gun" in our Nov|Dec issue. 👉 https://thepenngazette.com/both-sides-of-the-gun/
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📝: Trey Popp | 📸: Fernando Postigo, courtesy Arthur Ross Gallery | 🏷️:

Photographs by Fernando Postigo CGS’71 at Arthur Ross Gallery.

11/03/2025

During a super-sized 60-Second Lectures program, SAS faculty weighed in on how to create a welcoming environment for discussion in a contentious time.
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Read more in "An Hour for the Constitution" in our Nov|Dec issue. 👉 https://thepenngazette.com/an-hour-for-the-constitution/
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📝: John Prendergast C'80 | 🎨: Rich Lillash | 🏷️:

“That’s the wonderful but really difficult part of freedom of speech.”