Greg Johnson

A key feature of Penn’s Action Plan for Faculty Diversity and Excellence are the Presidential Term Professorships, which were established in 2011 and supporte

Masses of African-American men from around the country converged on Washington, D.C., in October of 1995 for the Million Man March. Speakers included Jesse Jackson, Rosa Parks, Dick Gregory, and Maya Angelou. Unable to afford the trip to the nation’s capital, 15-year-old Daniel Q. Gillion attended a protest event in Miami that coincided with the March, and was organized by local churches and chapters of the NAACP. Hundreds of similar demonstrations were held across the nation.

The alluring bright lights of Hollywood shine all the way across the country, illuminating the gritty streets of Philadelphia and twinkling creative minds at Penn.

Reports of the death of American journalism have been greatly exaggerated, but the enterprise is weathering crises on multiple fronts, with threats to its business model, opportunities for employment, and overall credibility and value as a profession.

Seventeen-year-old Sadie Tanner Mossell arrived at Penn in the fall of 1915 filled with strong-willed ambition, a determination to succeed, and the utmost confidence, in a world that told her she was ugly, ignorant, and inferior. She grew up surrounded by excellence, flowing across generations, and knew that prevalent notions of black inferiority were false and uncivilized.

Four hundred years after the death of dramatist William Shakespeare, enduring questions remain about whether the Bard of Avon had an uncredited co-writer on some of his world-famous plays. A team of Penn researchers has found an answer—in the School of Engineering and Applied Science, of all places.