Inside the Cancer-Cell Smasher
In the last century, American medicine has gone from a cottage industry to a technology-driven juggernaut. The machine at the heart of the new Roberts Proton Therapy Center, dubbed “the world’s most expensive and complex medical device,” provides a glimpse of what the coming years may hold.
Sound Investments
From College Hall | These times will bring out the best in the Penn family.
Letters
Mar|Apr 2009
My First Career
Some people take a gap year before college. I took seven.
Living In Between
The strange familiarity of divided Belfast.
Land Without Bargains
On buying a home in Provence, circa 1988.
Beyond Big Government
Can Washington be effective and accountable at the same time?
The Zeus Dig Goes Deeper
More proof on origin of Zeus worship
The Energizer Dean
From her distinctive outfits to her influential research to her indefatigable efforts to raise the profile of Penn’s School of Nursing, Dean Afaf Meleis commands attention—provided you can keep up with her.
In Dreams Begin Discoveries
Revisiting a century-old essay—still cited in the scientific literature—in which one noted Penn scholar dissected the “problem-solving” dreams of two others and showed how they slept their way to insights that eluded their waking selves.
Homecoming 2008
Homecoming 2008
Sound Investments
From College Hall: These times will bring out the best in the Penn family.
Letters
Jan|Feb 2009
Night Court
“From the outside, this room must glow.”
Under the Ice
“Suddenly, my body was in freefall.”
Fractured Homeland
Traveling the borders that divide Albanians from Albanians.
The Rise of the Female Right
What Sarah Palin’s candidacy says about the growing role of women in conservative politics.
New DuBois Mural
South Street mural honors W.E.B. Dubois
New Chairman of the Board
Cohen to succeed Riepe as trustee chair next year
The Plight of the Urban Plight
Big cities, little attention
A Prayer For Mumbai
Mourning for Mumbai victims
Hopeful Finish, Shaky Start, Championship Season
Three sports, three stories
The Death and Rebirth of Rasputin
A long-dormant opera by Penn music professor Jay Reise rises again in Russia.
Windows on Other Worlds
Two exhibitions and a new book of images by a physician-turned-photographer.