The Omnivore’s New Dilemma
(Which exotic University City restaurant should we try tonight?)
Dining a la Penn
Remember the dining halls? You can still get a burger and fries, but pretty much everything else has changed.
Quakers in the Kitchen
Penn alumni offer tips on how to relax and host great parties, eat well without harming the environment, and dine like a gourmet on the cheap.
Architecture of Madness
Chris Payne GAr’96’s photographs evoke the vanished world of state mental hospitals, where inmates could be both “mad and safe.”
Slouching Towards Elegance
In her new book, Trustee Professor of French Joan DeJean counts the many ways—from padded sofas, to “casual” clothing, to flush toilets—that France taught the world how to make itself comfortable.
Letters
Mar|Apr 2010
Hyphen Anxiety
A Franco-American worries that he’s not quite French enough.
Journey Into Silence
Can I renounce speech, and almost everything else, for three months?
Private Shetznitz
Why would a peace-loving, left-leaning, lactose-intolerant Jew from the Chicago suburbs join the Israeli Army?
From Words to Buildings
What good is language to an architect?
Vision Shot
Eye-opening advance in gene therapy
Bigger Bangs for Charitable Bucks
New SP2 center focuses on “high impact philanthropy”
$20 Million Gift for PIK Professorships
Weiss $20 million gift will fund four PIK professors
A Rhodes Scholar from Old Rhodesia
Sarah-Jane Littleford C’09 awarded Rhodes Scholarship
Penn Poet Wins a Marshall
Joshua Bennett C’10 wins Marshall Scholarship
Granting Green
First round of “green grants” announced
Findings
Rethinking Depression Treatment, BlackBerry Nation, and the Cholesterol Cure
Harnessing PIK Power to Engage Alumni
“Engaging Minds” takes PIKs on the road
Crime and (Incoherent) Punishment
Legislative haste makes legal waste
You Want Science With That?
Science Cafe examines DNA screening and more
College Green Snow
Snow more
Reality Check
Basketball’s woes
Scoring a Hearing
When an artful dodger is interrogated by sopranos, music breaks out.
Grammy Sends Composer Over the Moon
Jennifer Higdon G’92 Gr’94 on her Grammy win