Star Power
From the Editor: Nov|Dec 2000
Putting on a Show
More than half a century after Hal Prince left Penn to become Broadway's brightest off-stage star, he is still passionately committed to getting new musicals on stage.
Coming Home
Adrift in the great sea of university life, the author found an academic anchor—and much more—studying the history and sociology of science.
The Big Picture
David Koerner, a Penn astronomer and accomplished pianist, probes the universe for clues about how prevalent planetary systems, and life itself, may be.
“Tweaked, Not Trendy”
That's how architect Wendy Evans Joseph describes her work—which has ranged from a dramatic pedestrian bridge across a busy street a the edge of New York's East River to the conversion of a one-time opera house/cattle auction yard in Dallas into a Women's Museum.
Letters
Nov|Dec 2000: Questioning bilingual education, feeling left out, Perelman Quad complaint.
Man in the Muddle
Newt’s cookie choice and other secrets of a Washington intern.
Return to the River
You can go home again—but train first!
Don’t Take Your Medicine!
Treatment interruptions may boost immune response
Emergency Contraception and Catholic Theology
When patients’ rights and religious restrictions collide.
Health System to Pay $12 Million for Medicare Fraud at Presbyterian
Settlement in Medicare fraud case.
Big Bucks for New Building at Vet School
$18 million grant toward new Vet School building.
MacDiarmid Wins Nobel Prize
MacDiarmid wins chemistry Nobel.
P2B Hopes to Help Hatch Businesses
With P2B, Penn launches high-tech incubator.
Perelman Quadrangle: Back to the Future
Ribbon-cutting and rock at Perelman Quad
Opening Convocation: Taking It From the Top
Kafkaesque Convocation for the Class of 2004.
Highly Rated (Again)
Penn #6 in U.S. News; Wharton #1 in Business Week.
Hitting Pay Dirt—er, Mud—in the Black Sea
Flood of discoveries in Black Sea.
Who’s Dependent Now?
Welfare reform’s reverse dependency.
Patient’s Family Sues Over Gene Study
Lawsuit filed in Gelsinger death … Settlement follows
Wistar Scientists Cleared of Hatching AIDS
Wistar polio-vaccine not cause of AIDS.
“There Will be Cake!”
Ruth Branning Molloy Ed’30 invited friends to help her celebrate “90 years of uninterrupted living.”
Supermarket for Scandal
Whistle-blower's reward: jail time. Rats in the Grain. Penn and the prize. Prize Stories 2000: The O’Henry Awards.
Triple Crown?
Men’s basketball is poised for a “threepeat.”