By Hayley Brooks
09/11/11 9:32pm
One week after his graduation from Penn, Amit Friedlander was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma — a diagnosis Friedlander thinks could be linked to the carcinogens he was exposed to five years earlier on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001.
By Katherine Watkins
09/12/11 1:04am
Ameena Ghaffar-Kucher began in 2004 a study of working-class Pakistani-American immigrants in New York City — but her focus shifted quickly to 9/11’s influence.
By Lauren Reed-Guy
09/12/11 1:04am
Ten years after the attacks that changed the world, some of Penn’s war veterans are only just returning to civilian life.
By Yamini Nabar
09/14/11 11:53pm
Vice president for Facilities and Real Estate Services, Anne Papageorge oversaw the design of the approximately $1 billion 9/11 memorial in New York, which is scheduled to open this Sunday.
By Karen Aquino
09/12/11 1:05am
In the years after the attacks, both interest in and prejudice against Islam increased.
By Rachel Finkel
09/12/11 12:56am
Tucked away in front of Van Pelt Library since the second anniversary of 9/11 is a plaque paying homage to 16 alumni who were killed in the attacks. In this special feature, we take a look at five of those stories, through the eyes of those who knew them best.
By Anjali Tsui
09/12/11 12:55am
A snapshot of Penn on the morning of September 11.
By Julie Xie
09/12/11 1:16am
As the events of 9/11 recede further into the past, educators are debating how to best present the historical event to college students who grew up with it and younger students who have little memory of the day.
By The Daily Pennsylvanian
09/15/11 4:14am
The day after the towers fell, this paper carried the following plea: “Please take advantage — and take care — of your university’s greatest resource: each other.”
By Sheldon Hackney
09/12/11 1:06am
Former Penn President Sheldon Hackney argues that it might be appropriate to think of freedom, a communal enterprise, as our national purpose.
By Eduardo del Valle
09/12/11 1:06am
An architect and Penn parent working on the World Trade Center reconstruction reflects on the past and future of the site.
By Amy Gutmann
09/12/11 1:06am
Penn President Amy Gutmann believes that a big piece of the answer to drive hatred out of the human spirit lies in what universities do.
By Ian Lustick
09/12/11 1:06am
Political science professor Ian Lustick argues that the terrorist threat has been overblown and the War on Terror has been wasteful and destructive.
By Howard Kunreuther
09/12/11 1:06am
Wharton professor Howard Kunreuther says we must look to long-term solutions for dealing with the large-scale risks that we currently face — including terrorism, climate change and natural disasters.
By Clark McCauley
09/12/11 1:06am
Bryn Mawr College professor Clark McCauley writes that we were unable to predict how far our overreaction to 9/11 would go.
By Sara Schonfeld
09/12/11 1:06am
On Sunday, the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, Penn Museum Associate Director of Education Jean Byrne hopes students will find a place to reflect and share stories at the exhibit, which opened August 20.
By Mike Tony
09/11/11 10:18am
Mike Kiley and Conor Nickel’s homecoming for the Fordham Fiasco will be especially poignant this year on the 10th anniversary of 9/11.
By Kelsey Matevish
09/09/11 5:58am
New measures since 2001 include creating a position for a deputy chief of tactical emergency readiness.
By Isabel Friedman
09/09/11 2:07am
Penn Democrats President Isabel Friedman asks how bearing witness to such profound tragedy and international unrest during the most formative years of our lives shapes the way we view our place in the world.
By Emma Ellman-Golan
09/09/11 2:07am
Former Penn Democrats President Emma Ellman-Golan writes that although the national bond formed in the aftermath of 9/11 has weakened, that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t be able to find other shared values or experiences that can unite us again.
By Samantha Sharf
09/09/11 2:08am
Today’s average college student was between the ages of eight and 11 on Sept. 11, 2001. We were old enough to know there was a problem, to feel that something had been lost, to watch the events unfold on the news.
By Brian Goldman
09/09/11 2:08am
Columnist Brian Goldman argues that the term ‘9/11 generation,’ invoked by the national press, is a bit misleading and even confining.
