Sandy Smith

For the dean of SAS, keeping the faculty happy, the students engaged and the budget in balance is all part of the plan.

Ah, Xando! It’s the place on campus to just hang out with your friends and relax as you wait for your cup o’ joe. Or the place to see and be seen at night -- by everyone but the wait staff. Or the place to grab a tasty sandwich, if they haven’t run out of food.

Growing up in a working-class neighborhood on Chicago’s South Side, Guthrie Ramsey played the music, wrote the music, danced to the music, lived the music. Now here he is, an assistant professor of music at Penn, where he dissects the music, analyzes the music, explains the music, theorizes about the music.

The University’s oldest living-learning program has taken a page from the successful Penn Reading Project as part of an effort to strengthen the sense of community among its far-flung members.

You can now attend Penn without having to come to Philadelphia. Instead, thanks to the miracle of the Internet, Penn will come to you. The program that makes this possible is called PennAdvance, housed in the College of General Studies.

  Photo by Mark Garvin

Last summer, Penn archaeologist Frederik Hiebert stumbled across artifacts that restored the reputation of a forgotten archaeologist and improved our understanding of the ancient cultures of Central Asia. The artifacts were found in New Hampshire, of all places.

For several decades now, some of the world’s brightest physicists have been trying to figure out how rocks, and water, and air, and all the other stuff in the universe came to be. The reason this question is so interesting is because in theory, there shouldn’t be any stuff in the universe at all.

The plans for the plane he’s building are in front of Steve Semenuk, and a piece of the plane is behind him. Photo by Candace diCarlo

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