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.
Street Fighter
“Gridlock Sam” Schwartz is an icon in New York’s century-long war with traffic. Can his final campaign reshape the city’s transportation future?
The Peace Children of Syria
Art can’t provide a way out of tragedy, but perhaps a way through.
Readin’, Writin’, Revolution
With the Minerva Project, Ben Nelson W’97 is out to “build the world’s greatest university from scratch.” Should Penn—and other top-tier schools—be worried?