Gardens of Earthy Delights
Matthew Rader WG’11 cultivates the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society.
Studying—and Standing in the Way of—Extremism
Brian Levin C’89 knows a scary amount about all kinds of extremism.
Presence
John Doman C’66 is still exercising his acting muscle.
Memorializing the Civil Rights Movement
Beverly Robertson ran the National Civil Rights Museum.
Ghosts of Segregation
Barren campus. Without Regard to Sex, Race, or Color.
Behind the Bamboo Camera
“Father of Philippine Independent Cinema” Kidlak Tahimik WG’67.
When the Answer Is C) None of the Above
“Middlesex meets Mean Girls” in YA novel None of the Above.
Out of Texas
Paul Christensen Gr’73’s “A West Texas Marriage.”
Accent Adaptation
Parts of speech.
Ghosting for Gerald
Gerald’s story, and mine.
Next Stop, Paradise
“That old promise of bliss.”
Uber Gridlock
Uber and VIM.
$80 Million to Restore Hill’s “Wow!”
Hill House to get $80 million renovation.
Islamic Chaplain: Fight Hatred With New Narratives
Penn’s Islamic chaplain Kameelah Rashad C’00 GEd ’01.
Class of 2016 Gets Broadway Star
Hamilton’s Lin-Manuel Miranda to be Commencement speaker
“Historic Philadelphia,” Rethought
Historic preservation studio challenges neighborhood assumptions.
Y-Prize Gets Beery
Y-Prize winners get $10,000 in beer money.
An Ethnographer Among the Hyenas
Q&A on sociologist David Grazian’s American Zoo.
Cancer Moonshot Launched by Mission Control
Biden’s cancer “moonshot” lifts off at Penn.
Throwing Weight
Sam Mattis’ Olympic hopes; women’s lacrosse is “on a mission.”
Scoreboard
From Dec. 8, 2015 to Feb. 7, 2016
The Small, Good Stories
The Penn Cultural Heritage Center was launched to provide a forum for an “intellectual discussion” of the meaning of heritage and the role of communities in preservation efforts. Then came the Syrian civil war and the rise of ISIS.
Briefly Noted
March|April 2016
That Roosevelt
Penn Law professor, legal scholar, and novelist Kermit Roosevelt III is doing his best to live up to the family name—including, in his latest book, by tackling cousin Franklin’s executive order authorizing the confinement of more than 100,000 Japanese Americans in internment camps during World War II.