Lightning Fingers and a Big, Beautiful Sound
A child prodigy grows up.
Briefly Noted
Nov|Dec 2009
The Doctor Is In—And Now She’s Listening
Dr. Marie Savard Nu’70 GrNu’72 M’76
Monsters of Recycling
Brian Yanish C’95
Graduate from Penn; Stay in Philly
Jonathan Grabelle Herrmann W’00
She Sees Fitness in the Stars
Gina Lombardi DH’83
Alumni Notes
Nov|Dec 2009
Obituaries
Nov|Dec 2009
Splendid Splinter
Window, Nov|Dec 2009
Nov|Dec 2009
Volume 108, No. 2
“Academic Activist,” Emeritus
Celebrating sociologist Frank Furstenberg
Truth in Advertising
Wharton study reveals the truth about advertising
Ready to Reclaim Some Gridiron Swagger?
Football looks to get its “swagger” back
Notes on a Revolution
The music, in words, of the late George Rochberg.
The Beatbox Goes On
Beatboxer Adam Matta EAS’96
Battle Lines Being Drawn
A new book on hip-hop gives context to the L.A. scene.
Designs on Nakashima
Alumnus explores early furniture by George Nakashima
Disney’s Channeler
Mixing up-to-the-minute marketing techniques, tried-and-true entertainment formulas, and engaging young stars and stories, Disney Channels Worldwide President Richard Ross C’83 is helping ensure that the company remains supreme in the kid-entertainment universe.
Ornamental and Essential
From College Hall: We need arts and culture to feel fully alive and to live as well as we can.
Letters
Sep|Oct 2009
Chasing Aztlán
A summer of food politics, social justice, and Chicana epiphanies in Florida’s tomato belt.
My Alumni Magazine, Myself
Fifty years of reading, skimming, ignoring, and connecting with the Gazette.
Towards an Old Architecture
On a bare rock island off the Spanish coast, a young architect contends with the anxiety of Le Corbusier’s influence.
Lessons from the General
What Cuba can teach the U.S. about educational reform.