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At Commencement, actress, filmmaker, and Penn alumna Elizabeth Banks ❄️ C'96 tells the Class of 2025 to “pursue anything and everything that cares you with absolute vigor.” ❤️ 💙 | 📸: Tommy Leonardi C'89 | 🏷️: #lovepenn #pennalumni thepenngazette.com/may-the-odds-b…

Anna Brandt W’25 was named the Midfielder of the Year by the Intercollegiate Women’s Lacrosse Coaches Association, the first time in program history a player earned that honor.| 📝: Dave Zeitlin C'03 | 📸: @PennAthletics | 🏷️: #lacrosse Penn Women's Lax thepenngazette.com/anna-the-all-a…

For 150 years, Penn Baseball has produced titles, pro ballplayers, and a supportive alumni base. | 📝: Dave Zeitlin C'03 | 📸: Courtesy Penn Archives | 🏷️: #pennbaseball #baseball #sportshistory Penn Quakers thepenngazette.com/a-century-and-…

History professor Ben Nathans received the Pulitzer in General Nonfiction for his book "To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause: The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement." | 🏷️: #pulitzerprize #books The Pulitzer Prizes Penn Arts & Sciences thepenngazette.com/penns-benjamin…

BREAKING: Penn’s Vice President for Finance and Treasurer Mark Dingfield will serve as the University’s next executive vice president, according to a Thursday announcement from Penn President Larry Jameson to the University’s senior leaders. l8r.it/xPPD

In front of a rapt Penn Hillel audience, 97-year-old Michael Katz CCC’49 recounted his harrowing Holocaust escape. | 📝: Julia M. Klein | 📸: Jonathan Gilbert courtesy Penn Hillel | 🏷️: #holocaustsurvivor #holocaust #wwii thepenngazette.com/survival-story/

A dog’s successful brain surgery could advance human care. | 📝: Kathryn Levy Feldman LPS’09 | 📸: John Donges courtesy Penn Vet | 🏷️: #veterinarymedicine #dogs #braincancer #visar #arsurgery thepenngazette.com/geddys-gift/

The issues raised by the famed “Monkey Trial” of 1925 continue to resonate a century later. * thepenngazette.com/the-scopes-tri… * 📝: Mary Ann Meyers Gr’76 | 📸: Courtesy Penn Libraries | 🏷️: #johnscopes #monkeytrial #evolution

Trust Boosters: The #pandemic, #vaccination and public trust five years on, in an exhibition at Mütter Museum. thepenngazette.com/trust-boosters/ via The Pennsylvania Gazette

The massive tomb of an unknown pharaoh is the latest discovery at the ancient Egyptian site. | 📝: Mary Ann Meyers Gr’76 | 📸: Josef Wegner courtesy @PennMuseum | 🏷️: #pharaoh #abydos #archaeology thepenngazette.com/after-125-year…

In an Oklahoma warehouse, sitting in a fold-out chair with a half-eaten cupcake, a young Mollie Benn C’25 raised her hand to be saved. "Technically, I had already been saved before—about half a dozen times—but I was always scared that it didn’t stick." thepenngazette.com/beyond-salvati…

"I used to associate the jangle of bottles and cans with animals," writes Berenice Leung C’17 W’17. But after eight years of city living, "I’ve learned that this particular clink-clank-clatter more often signals the enterprise of older humans." thepenngazette.com/trash-tribe/

"Soap reflects what we value and, I submit, is a metaphor for how we approach life," writes Cynthia McVay G’88 WG’88 in this ode to bar soap. | 🎨: Martha Rich | 🏷️: #soap #barsoap #personalessay thepenngazette.com/bar-soap/

An unusual artist-in-residence program through the Penn Center for Neuroaesthetics (@Penn Center for Neuroaesthetics) begets a fantastical creation at the Michener Art Museum. | 📝: JoAnnGreco | 🎨: Stained glass by @Judith Schaechter | 🏷️: #stainedglass #art #neuroaesthetics thepenngazette.com/glass-cosmos/

An alumni panel during Alumni Weekend digested writing, cooking, and left-right brain thinking. | 📝: Trey Popp | 🎨: Jeff Koegel | 🏷️: #cooking #foodwriting #writing Kelly Writers House thepenngazette.com/writers-in-the…

Dennis Drabelle G'66 L'69 reviews English professor Peter Conn's new book about the paintings of Thomas Sully (1783–1872), "Thomas Sully’s Philadelphians: Painting the Athens of America." | 🏷️: #art #portrait #thomassully #earlyamerica thepenngazette.com/philadelphia-i…

A special exhibition at the Mütter Museum highlights the roles Penn played in developing COVID-19 vaccines and trying to foster confidence in them. | 📝: Julia M. Klein | 📸: Courtesy Mütter Museum | 🏷️: #covid19 #vaccine #vaccinehesitancy thepenngazette.com/trust-boosters/

Beth Kaplan GrEd’21's new book, "Braving the Workplace," dives into how to belong—but not necessarily “fit in”—at work. | 📝: Caren Lissner C’93 | 🎨: Rich Lillash | 🏷️: #belonging #newbook #workplace thepenngazette.com/longing-to-bel…

Jonathan Levine C’84 designs headphones that can track your focus level—and look cool too. | 📝: Jonathan Takiff C’68 | 📸: Courtesy HBO | 🏷️: #headphones #sound Master & Dynamic thepenngazette.com/hear-the-futur…

Born out of a controversy over Penn's stance on the Vietnam War, the stainless-steel Peace Symbol on College Green has witnessed many subsequent protests and vigils—as well as generations of sun-seeking students—since it was dedicated on January 27, 1970. thepenngazette.com/a-peaceful-pla…