Letters
Jul|Aug 2012
Seems Like Old Times
The rotary phone, transistor radio, three-piece-suit-on-an-airplane blues.
Pilgrim’s Progress
On walking at the spirit’s pace.
Driving Up The Dalton
A road lover celebrates his 80th year on the most distant patch of gravel he can find.
The Third Man
How America’s secret hunt for al Qaeda’s No. 3 transformed the struggle against terrorism.
Needed: Winners for the “Losing Team”
Canada to Class of 2012: “Get in the game”
Honorary Degrees
Honorary-degree recipients
Bond Buyers Bet Penn Will Last Another Century
Buy and hold: University sells $300 million in 100-year bonds
Gutmann Gets Five-Year Contract Extension
Contract extension will keep Gutmann in College Hall until 2019
Garry Kasparov on Chess and Politics
Kasparov on politics: “The comparison with chess is not correct”
Celebrating 25 Years of TCPW, and a Nobel Prize Winner
Toni Morrison gets Beacon Award at TCPW’s 25th
Back To School
Penn offering free courses through Coursera online-education platform
Improving Women’s Health—One Man, Pig, or Cityscape at a Time
Nursing’s Center for Global Women’s Health holds first symposium
Findings
Blood Sugar, Brains, and Memory plus Pain: Separate but Unequal
Holocaust Archive Comes to Penn
Shoah Foundation’s Holocaust archives coming to Penn
False Credentials Prompt GSE Vice Dean’s Exit
GSE’s Lynch resigns over false credentials
From Golden Fleece to Golden Goose
“Golden Goose” awards will defend the value of research
To Err is Divine
Learning from Brilliant Mistakes
Sixteen Strokes to Glory
Scotty Williams C’12 leads men’s golf to Ivy title and NCAAs
Get Happy
Stefan Sagmeister’s The Happy Show at the ICA
How Gardens Grow
What happens to us when we walk through a garden.
Mr. Magoo’s Visionaries
The chronicler of a remarkable Hollywood studio talks about the animated characters—real and drawn—that populate his new book.
So Much Still Depends
A new biography of William Carlos Williams approaches the man and his work from some odd angles.
Briefly Noted
Jul|Aug 2012