Heather Davis

When Stephanie Ives was hired in the summer of 1999 as Penn’s first alcohol coordinator, the campus had just emerged from an intensive review of its alcohol and drug use culture.

Photo credit: Candace diCarlo In 1984, the partial remains of a bird fossil from the age of dinosaurs were accidentally discovered in the Gansu province of northwestern China.

Ed Stemmler has seen pelicans, dolphins and whales on the open water. He’s sailed through dense fog and glorious sunsets, and been up and down the Atlantic coast, all in the Gazela—a Philadelphia-based large sailing vessel built in 1883.

Go ahead, be good to yourself.

The most famous horse since Smarty Jones remains in intensive care but is resting comfortably—and that’s good news for the colt’s owners and scores of new fans.

It’s rare that a company will commit to spending hundreds of millions of dollars based on the findings of one study.

Domus, the eight-story luxury apartment building under construction at 34th and Chestnut streets, will have plenty of eye-catching features when its finished, from a heated outdoor pool to 10-foot-high apartment ceilings.

Q&A/The Director of Penn’s Master of Science Program in Criminology talks about working with former Attorney General Janet Reno and what drew her to criminology in the first place. “It was hard and stressful in many ways, but it was kind of a golden time.”

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