Greg Johnson covers Penn Athletics and Recreation, which includes sports teams, intramural sports, and the Penn Relays. He manages the annual Research at Penn publication, which highlights notable research from all 12 schools at Penn.
A song for Sadie Alexander, a Penn alumna of great esteem
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.
Shakespeare and his co-authors, as told by Penn engineers
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.
Africana Studies project sheds light on marginalized populations
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
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.
The story of religious tolerance in Flushing, Queens
Following the sack and storm of Rome in 410 C.E., a defeat worshippers of Roman gods blamed on Christianity’s ban on polytheism, St. Augustine defended the Christian faith with furious zeal in his treatise, “Concerning the City of God Against the Pagans,” or “City of God.”
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.
Cash bail system can be unjust, Penn Law study finds
A person arrested and charged with a crime is usually brought before a magistrate, without legal representation in most cases, who sets the terms of his or her bail.
