First Visit, Last Farewell
In this excerpt from her new memoir about her “multicultural marriage,” the author writes of her son’s first trip to his father’s country of El Salvador and the death of a family patriarch.
Zahi Hawass and the Secrets of the Pyramids
Archaeology’s answer to Carl Sagan has generated unprecedented interest in Egypt’s past and believes that science and history can “create love between countries.” In a world of increasing tensions, he says that mission is more important than ever.
Faculty Favorites
Faculty member who most stimulated readers during their years at Penn.
Going For It
How I sang for Billy Joel.
Making the Most of the Material Past
A stint as a “trainee mortician” set Penn English Professor Peter Stallybrass on the path to scholarship. These days, he prowls old bookstores and library stacks in search of the objects that make the past come to life.
The Big Picture
Muralist Jane Golden brings her vision of art as a medium for social change to Penn—and to one wall in the Mantua neighborhood north of campus.
The Boy Chemist at 75
Well over a half-century and one Nobel Prize later, Penn Professor Alan G. MacDiarmid still possesses—and communicates to students—the energy and enthusiasm of a 10-year old with his first chemistry book.
Professor Quagmire
A Chronicle of Campus Changes Through One Absent Mind
A Tragedy of Democracy
By Order of the President. Dissecting a tragedy of democracy.
The Philly and the Ivy
Big 5, small consolation?
Smoke on the Water
Ed Grusheski G’74
Consistently Right About Enron
John Olson C’64 WG’66
“Boy, Did I Show Them”
John Palko W’76
Nurturing Nature in Our Cities
Anne Whiston Spirn GLA’74
Alumni Notes
Mar|Apr 2002
Obituaries
Mar|Apr 2002
Finals
“Honor Veteran Teachers
of College Faculty”
Mar|Apr 2002
Vol. 100, No. 4
Penn Between the Wars: 1919-1940
Boom, bust, and the University’s bicentennial.
Hello, Dr. Chips
An emeritus English professor and frequent Gazette contributor looks at how Penn's faculty has been portrayed in the magazine during its first century.
Pause against Plagiarism
Think your own thoughts, and you may not steal others’ words.
Saved by a C
Recalling a professor’s act of generosity.