Getting Results
From the Editor: Sep|Oct 2001
How Excellent?
Take nine strategic goals, six academic priorities, 12 schools, five years and close to a billion dollars and what do you get?
Art from a Land of Sun and Shadows
A new exhibition at the Arthur Ross Gallery showcases an alumnus's powerful collection of modern Mexican art.
The Particle Sleuths
Penn researchers have a long history of tracking solar neutrinos, elusive particles which may tell us much about our sun and the nature of matter itself.
Man of Letters
Alfred Butts created the blockbuster word game known as Scrabble during the Depression. A new book examines the meticulous word-tinker, the evolution of the game, and the effect it had on America.
Letters
Sep|Oct 2001: Creation question, Chimpsky correction, cities railroaded, surgical strike.
Self Help: Charity on 52nd Street
Regular game. Nothing free.
The Arts For Our Sakes
From College Hall | Penn and the arts.
Welcome to the Dollhouse
Apartment hunting, East Village-style.
A Campus With a Plan
A 25-year framework for the future of campus development
$14 Million Grant Sparks Bioengineering Initiative
$14 million for bioengineering from Whitaker Foundation
Schwartz Leaves SSW
Social Work Dean Ira Schwartz chooses Temple
Shelter from the Storm
Sheltering the homeless—and saving money
Mack the Cutting Edge
William Mack gives $10 million for technological innovation
Cassatt String Quartet begins its second artist-in-residence
The Cassatt Quartet makes music
Just a Minute: the Academic Essence
The “essence of the finest lectures” from “outrageously
good lecturers”
Rubenstein Prescribed for Med School and Health System
Mt. Sinai’s Rubenstein named Medical School dean and Health
System EVP
Sick Culture
Raw Material. What the Victorians thought about disease
Back to Back?
Football prepares to defend its Ivy crown.
“Enzyme” Incarcerated
Ira Einhorn C’61
Batting for Pie in the Sky, He Gets Pie in the Face
Mark DeRosa W’97
From Drug Busts to Derivatives: Math Teacher With A History
Steven Kryger W’86
Life-Saving Reminders
Seth Forman C’94
What’s New About Getting Old
Bill Novelli C’63 ASC’64