Penn Gazette

New Dental Dean Appointed

01 Mar 2003

University of Alabama’s Marjorie Jeffcoat named dental school dean.

Penn and Health Care Trust Dissolve Agreement

01 Mar 2003

Gifts Revisited: Penn and Philadelphia Health Care Trust dissolve $100 million agreement

Where the Wild Things Were

01 Mar 2003

What killed the woolly mammoth?

Emeritus Professor, Emerging Painter

01 Mar 2003

Former SAS Dean Rosemary Stevens’ “parallel career” as a painter.

Court Orders Penn to Pay Up

01 Mar 2003

Penn ordered to pay $2.9 million to vet school professor

The Magic of Birth and Bricks

01 Mar 2003

Magical “birth brick” discovered at Abydos in Egypt

Off the Shelf

01 Mar 2003

A Matter of Degrees. Taking temperature’s measure. Can’t Be Satisfied. A life of Muddy Waters.

Fran Dunphy’s Tough Love

01 Mar 2003

Challenging road ahead for men’s basketball.

Four Weddings and a Hit TV Series

01 Mar 2003

Kirk Marcolina C’92

News—and Group-Therapy—for Ivy Basketball Fans

01 Mar 2003

Jake Wilson C’99

In his acclaimed 2002 documentary, Stone Reader, Mark Moskowitz used his search for the writer of a novel he admired to create a “Huck Finn story for guys who love books.” Now the lost author is back at work, the film is out on DVD, and Moskowitz is leading the fight to revive other forgotten works.

Second Time Around

01 Jan 2003

A program offered through the College of General Studies allows retirees—Penn alumni and others—to audit courses in the School of Arts and Sciences.

Spreading the Words

01 Jan 2003

A century after University Museum archaeologists uncovered thousands of tablets bearing the earliest known form of writing and 25 years after efforts began to compile a dictionary of the language, the Penn Sumerian Dictionary Project is going online.