Matters of Scale
From the Editor: May|June 2005
Small Technology, Big Promise
Penn researchers are helping write the rulebook for the future of nanotechnology.
Taking the Trouble to See
Bill Shore’s candidates went 0-for-3 in presidential races, but with Share Our Strength the former political operative launched a unique campaign to fight hunger and created a new model for community service.
A Remarkable Record
More than 50 years after it was written and nearly a century since the events described, Penn Law Professor and Dean Edwin Keedy’s account of the murder trial of two Inuit men in Canada’s far north remains a vivid and timely piece of scholarship.
What’s Next?
“This is a book about land, and about how land, like us, changes over time.” An excerpt from Ghosts in the Garden.
Building Bridges
From College Hall | To gain a deeper understanding of our world, we must reach across disciplines.
Letters
May|June 2005
Strangers and Friends
A chance encounter on a train transforms a trip.
Applying Themselves
Two well-meaning parents get swept up in college-admissions insanity.
The Ox Herder
Dream job: Ox herder
The Wild Web
Along with lots of junk, online writing has produced some captivating material.
Life, Death, and the Afterlife in Ancient China and Egypt
How Egypt’s other 80 percent lived
$10 Million for Integrating Knowledge
Penn Integrates Knowledge receives $10 million gift
U.N.’s Annan to Speak at Graduation
U.N.’s Annan picked as Commencement speaker
Who Goes Where?
New research on rankings
Spring Break With a Difference
In search of civil-rights history
Toward a Culture of Immortality
Technique promises “bottomless repository” of stem cells
Tracking AIDS in Africa
Tracking AIDS in Africa
House Party
Riepe House-warming
In Playwriting Fellowship, The Process is the Thing
Playwriting fellowship premieres
The Realities of “Reality Television”
Reality TV revealed at Media Summit 2005
Former Neurology Professor Sentenced to House Arrest for Sexual Assault
McIntosh sentenced in sexual assault
Defining Moments
Basketball: Tim Begley’s team
How Green is My Brownfield
“Groundswell”: Beauty in Brownfields