Obituaries
Jul|Aug 2009
The Summer Palace
Window, Jul|Aug 2009
Jul|Aug 2009
Volume 107, No. 6
Four Years End Not With a Bang, But a Twitter
Commencement: “THE BIG DAY IS HERE!”
Honorary Degrees
Honorands
Penn Names New Provost
Vincent Price named provost
Reader, Have You No Spine?
How books are different from the Web
The “Dark Matter” of Social Interaction
“Surprising disconnect” between pay and work quality
A Triumph in Ten Acts
Penn Relays decathlon-winner Max Westman C’09
The Dawn of El Saturn
A new exhibition at the ICA examines the early art, Arkestra, and Afro-futurism of the late Sun Ra.
Feet Last
From Norman MacAfee C’65’s Selected Poems
When Harry Met Trooper Stampler
Pull over. Harry Truman’s Excellent Adventure
Osborne’s Woman with Red
Elizabeth Osborne FA’59’s Woman with Red
The Vital Thread of Tom Sugrue
In The Origins of the Urban Crisis and now Sweet Land of Liberty, Penn historian Thomas Sugrue has shattered the conventional narrative about the struggle for Civil Rights in this country. The new book was published on the same day a black man was elected president; still, says Sugrue, “We’ve got a lot of overcoming to do.”
Intelligent Designs
Three Penn alumni are making their mark on fashion with clothing and accessories that are both thoroughly functional and very easy on the eyes.
The Next Generation of Leaders
From College Hall: Increasing access fosters opportunities for Penn students to lead us forward.
Letters
May|Jun 2009
Dancing Against The Stars
In the surreal world of dance competitions, victory can take a toll.
Certifiable Lifer
It took a lot of education to become this unemployable.
Group Portrait With Lions
On the etiquette of traveling in a pack.
Quiet as a Burning Fuse
Iraq may have fallen out of U.S. headlines, but tension in Kurdistan threatens to reignite the war.
The Vaccine Evangelist
Answering autism’s “false prophets”
Findings
Learning from the Unexpected, The Bachelor Blues, and Swallowing the Holiday-Suicide Myth
Run on the (Virtual) Banks
Paul Krugman on the “debt deflation” recession