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Wearing a red and blue Penn tank top, Sam Mattis throws the discus during his Penn undergraduate days.

Penn in the Track & Field U.S. Olympic Team Trials

Past and present track & field athletes are vying for a chance to compete in the Tokyo Olympics.

Making his major league debut, Jake Cousins prepares to throw the ball from the mound for the Milwaukee Brewers. The final 1-5 scored is listed vertically to the right.

Jake Cousins is Penn’s first big league pitcher in 30 years

The 2017 alumnus made his MLB debut for the Milwaukee Brewers on Monday against the Arizona Diamondbacks.

Hettie Simmons Love sits on a large ornate chair with daughter Karen Love standing to her left and Wharton Dean Erika James at her right in front of the Brick House statue.

Hettie Simmons Love: The story of a Wharton pioneer

A new book and a visit with Dean Erika James honor Wharton's first African-American MBA graduate.

Shaul Gordon in fencing regalia holds his hand up while clutching a fencing sabre in the other.

Former fencing standout Shaul Gordon to compete in Olympics for Canada

The 2016 alumnus and British Columbia native will participate in the men’s sabre event at the Tokyo Olympics.

The ideas of the first Black economics Ph.D. offer solutions to our problems today

Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander, the first African American with a doctoral degree in economics, advocated for economic justice after graduating from Penn in 1921.

At right, Regina Salmons sits in a boat holding an oar while wearing sunglasses and a blue uniform.

Alumna Regina Salmons selected to USRowing Olympic team

The 2018 graduate will compete in the women’s eight at the Games of the XXXII Olympiad in late July.

These Penn scientists discovered how the brain engages in imagination

Joseph Kable of the School of Arts & Sciences and alumni Arthur Lee and Trishala Parthasarathi used MRI brain scans to study the neuroscience of imagination.

We need to ‘tear down walls… within and without’ Laurene Powell Jobs told U Penn’s Class of 2021

Philanthropist, entrepreneur, and alumna Laurene Powell Jobs addressed graduating Penn students at this year’s Commencement ceremony. “The only way to do great work is to love what you do. And while you're doing it, love who you do it for and love who you are while you do it,” she said.

Penn Dental Medicine to receive $20M estate gift honoring alumnus

One hundred and four years after Penn Dental Medicine alumnus Dr. Arthur E. Corby, Class of 1917, earned his dental degree, his daughter, alumna Carol Corby-Waller, has gifted the Dental School with an anticipated $20 million honoring her father.

Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander in her graduation dress in 1921.

Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander: The first of many firsts

Despite encountering racism, sexism, and bigotry to get her Penn education, Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander became the first Black woman in the U.S. to get her Ph.D. in economics, and was one of the first three Black women to get a doctorate in any subject.

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