Class Acts
With volunteerism on the rise nationally, Penn's alumni programming has expanded beyond highball toasts and traveling lectures to include cleaning up parks and driving nails, creating new ways to engage with the old alma mater.
Wideman on Campus
The writer John Edgar Wideman—a star athlete and Rhodes Scholar at Penn in the early sixties—was back on campus last spring. In a wide-ranging interview at Kelly Writers House, he talked about the construction of reality, the joys of basketball, the writer’s search for a subject and the mysterious power of faith.
Alumni Weekend 2000
Alumni Weekend 2002
Parting Notes
The view from 2000.
When Were the Days?
What a diary reveals.
Vision + Plan + Competition = $uccess
$75,000 awarded to winning business plans.
They Wrote the Book
Undergraduates co-edit foreign policy book
On The Biology, and Bouquet, of Women
Natalie Angier on women and evolutionary psychology
New Fuel Cell Offers Flameless Energy—Without Hydrogen
Flameless fuel-cell promises cleaner energy source
Passing the Baton, Gleefully
New Glee Club director named
Bioethics-Center Plans Reconfigured by Press
Caplan blasts press on bioethics treatment
External-Committee Recommendations Prompt Changes at IHGT
IHGT will no longer conduct human trials
Lang Steps Down as Dean of Nursing
Lang steps down as nursing school dean
Revamping Locust Walk
Student groups gain space on Locust Walk
Metamorphosing into Freshmen with Kafka
Freshmen will read Kafka’s Metamorphosis
Between Two Worlds, Under the Open Sky
Commencement 2000
The World For Sale (or Lease)
What price virtuality? The Age of Access.
Wrapping Up
All basepaths lead to Rome?
Itching to Perform
Adam Gertsacov C’86
He’s Got the Meter Running On Crime
Jason Diaz W’95
Something to Grin About
Kathleen Harris Nu’98
When Culture and a Community Church Intersect, the Spire’s the Limit
Lorene Cary C’78 G’78
Shapiro Succeeds Howard as Alumni Society President
Elsie Sterling Howard CW'68 and Leonard Shapiro W'64
Alumni Notes
Jul|Aug 2000