The Faculty Issue
From the Editor: Mar|Apr 2002
Making the Most of the Material Past
A stint as a “trainee mortician” set Penn English Professor Peter Stallybrass on the path to scholarship. These days, he prowls old bookstores and library stacks in search of the objects that make the past come to life.
The Big Picture
Muralist Jane Golden brings her vision of art as a medium for social change to Penn—and to one wall in the Mantua neighborhood north of campus.
The Boy Chemist at 75
Well over a half-century and one Nobel Prize later, Penn Professor Alan G. MacDiarmid still possesses—and communicates to students—the energy and enthusiasm of a 10-year old with his first chemistry book.
Professor Quagmire
A Chronicle of Campus Changes Through One Absent Mind
An Affair to Remember
The dismissal of Economics Professor Scott Neering taught the University a valuable lesson—the hard way.