Women in the Wilderness
OK, I’ll Do It Myself at Van Pelt-Dietrich Library.
Cret Day
Architect Paul Cret’s legacy in Philadelphia.
Music in the Key of Green
Presenting the Morris Arboretum Suite.
Briefly Noted
Sept|Oct 2018
Arts Calendar
Sept|Oct 2018
End Stage
“I will soon be with my son. I am fine.”
Free Exercise in Peril
The Supreme Court’s double standard.
A Tourist in Romance
Afterlife of a grand gesture.
Philip Roth Gave Me an A Minus
Studying literature with the writer—and brilliant teacher—in the shadow of Vietnam.
Philip Roth and Me
A different side of Philip Roth.
Events
Sept|Oct 2018
Alumni Notes
Sept|Oct 2018
Obituaries
Sept|Oct 2018
The Path to Peace in a Tribe of Tribes
Restitching the dis-United States.
Tuition and Aid for 2018–19
2018–19 costs up 3.8 percent; financial aid up 5.25 percent.
Political Science and Economics Shift North
Perelman Center for Political Science and Economics opens.
Economic Miracle—and Money Pit?
What’s wrong with the domestic Chinese stock market?
A New Oldest Star
Visiting researchers discover most distant star yet.
Religious Freedom at the Brink
Mitchell Center’s “The States of Religious Freedom.”
Wharton on Woodland Walk
Construction under way on new Wharton building.
Star Search
Football and men’s soccer look to the future.
A Death in South Sudan
Trying to understand the loss of a young journalist and family friend, who was killed last year while covering the civil war in South Sudan.
Film for Social Change
Penn students from a variety of disciplines are learning the essentials of film storytelling and production while helping to give a voice to marginalized people and communities, from Philadelphia’s high schools to a refugee settlement in Kenya to Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria.
The Rigors of Success
New York’s Success Academy charter school network has been lionized for its sky-high test scores and robust curricular offerings—and decried for a rigidly disciplined school environment one opponent described as “abuse.” Opinions are just as divided on its combative and committed leader, Eva Moskowitz C’86. She’ll be happy to tell you who’s right.