Greg Johnson

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.

CHARM CITY: A junior from Baltimore, Md., Maya Arthur, 20, is an English major in the College of Arts & Sciences, with a creative writing concentration.

 In Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, while conducting primary research and ethnography for his dissertation, Michael Hanchard worked alongside several black activists who helped organize street children and children living in government foster service centers to demand access to better housing and education, and an en

On March 6, 1968, while he was exiled from boxing for refusing to be drafted to fight in the Vietnam War, former heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali, 26, visited Penn and addressed an audience of 2,500 in Irvine Auditorium.

GARDEN STATE: Randolph, N.J.’s Clare Mullaney, a Ph.D. student in the Department of English in the School of Arts & Sciences, was recently awarded a 2016 Irving K. Zola Prize for Emerging Scholars in Disability Studies from the Society for Disability Studies.