Industrious Preservation
Amy Hollander GFA’95 runs the National Museum of Industrial History.
Star-Spangled Singing
Bill Squires C’71 has “never been booed” for singing—roared at, yes.
Workhorse at the White House
Jon Decker C’88 G’91 has covered three US presidents (and counting).
Pinup Boy
Wiindow, Sept|Oct 2016
Darkwater Ripples
Arthur Ross Gallery show honors Terry Adkins’ influence.
Living Color
William Ferris G’67 Gr’69’s “visual journal” of the South.
American Routes Brings It All Back Home
Nick Spitzer C’72 brings American Routes to WXPN.
Another Fall in Philadelphia
Elaine Lisle C’76’s autumnal images of Philadelphia.
Briefly Noted
Sept|Oct 2016
Arts Calendar
Sept|Oct 2016
New College House
New College House opens.
A $2 Genetic Test for Zika
Penn researchers develop a $2 genetic test for Zika virus.
Fifty Shades of Grit
Q&A with Grit author and psych professor Angela Duckworth Gr’06.
Of Monsters and Ramen
Faculty couple Linda and Frank Chance share their love of Japan.
You Don’t Know Jack (Kerouac)
The long road to finding and translating Kerouac’s French writings.
Sex, Suicide, and Snapchat: Adolescent Health in the Digital Age
Parents wrong again: APPC study shows social media mostly OK for kids.
Greater Expectations
Starting over, in football and field hockey.
Method Inventor
With an innovation portfolio that ranges from medical devices to folding bicycles to social-impact enterprises to junk food, Wharton professor Karl Ulrich has every justification to bask in entrepreneurial mystique. Only that’s exactly what he sets out to demolish in the classroom.
Director Gone Bad
Mean Girls director Mark Waters C’86 is taking a shot at R-rated comedy with Bad Santa 2 this Thanksgiving—and still trying to figure out his place in ever-evolving Hollywood.
The Christian Association at 125
At the turn of the last century, the CA pioneered the idea of service at Penn with settlement houses and summer camps, and has since been at the forefront of anti-war protests and movements for civil, women’s, and LGBT rights. In the 21st, it’s still providing a “safe space” for students and making a difference on campus and beyond.
The Man Who Put Yellowstone on the Map
As the National Park Service marks its centennial this year, let’s take a moment to celebrate Penn professor and building namesake Ferdinand Hayden, whose visionary advocacy saved what became America’s first National Park from the tawdry, commercialized fate of Niagara Falls.
Googling Cuba
Brett Perlmutter’s mission was to open up Cuba to the internet. To say that it was
politically sensitive is an understatement. But the timing was just about perfect.