Medical School Gets Sweet Diabetes Grant
$15.5 million to medical school to study juvenile diabetes FDA rejects
What Price Religious Freedom?
Faith and freedom
Report of Higher Death Rates Disputed by HUP
HUP faults report of higher death rates in 2000
Nobel, Nobel, on the Wall …
Six Nobels and counting on chemistry’s wall of fame
The Art of Youthful Exhibitionism
Undergrads “leave a mark” at Arthur Ross Gallery
Turning Back the Clock on Stem Cells
Advance may produce stem cells without using embryos
Wilson’s Explanation Rejected
Wilson letter on gene-therapy trial
Pondering the Ethics and Science of Stem Cells
Panel examines stem-cell ethics and science
A Selective (Old) Penn Chronology 1902-1918
Our first Centennial timeline covers 1902 to 1918, when Old Penn becomes the Gazette (and World War I ended).
Browsing Penn’s Cyber Stacks
Scattered collections, brittle diaries, rare artifacts, handwritten plays, and more are flashing across computer screens worldwide, via the University's groundbreaking digital library project.
James Thomson and the Holy Grail
In 1998, graduate alumnus Dr. James Thomson won the race to isolate and culture human stem-cells for a sustained period—one of the holy grails of medical science—but he can’t outrun the controversy generated by his work. Increasingly, he isn’t trying.
Homecoming 2001
Homecoming 2001
Shadow Selves
Look at Me. A novel of dangerous depths.
Nazi Terror. Evil’s work-a-day world.
So Close …
Football falls short, and men’s basketball starts strong.
Big Man on Campus
Edward G. Rendell C’65 Hon’00
Vacation with Verse
Kelly Writers House hosts workshop
Hollywood Restaurant Makeover
Eric Rosen GAr’90
Signs of Progress for Deaf Studies
Sheryl Cooper C’79
My Friend the Adventure Writer
Mike Finkel W’90
Testing, 1, 2, 3—And Please Pass the Mashed Potatoes
Ira Rosen C’88
Where There Are Wheels, There’s a Way
Hal Colston C’75
Art in the Family
Gwyneth Leech C’81
Uprising Against Evil
Jon Avnet C’71
Alumni Notes
Jan|Feb 2002