Briefly Noted
Jan|Feb 2018
New College House West
$163 million New College House West announced.
Projecting Race
Series revives and reexamines “race films.”
The Mistake Hormone
Testosterone and decision-making: speed over accuracy.
The Underground Railroad, Reimagined
Novelist Colson Whitehead on The Underground Railroad.
Senior Standouts
Record-setting seniors Alexa Hoover and Justin Watson.
Scoreboard
From Oct. 10 to Dec. 5
Homecoming 2017
Our annual photo gallery. Plus: Alumni Award of Merit winners and citations.
Of Beneficent Buildings and Bedside Manners
Thomas S. Kirkbride M1832 wrote the book—literally—on the housing and treatment of the mentally ill in the 19th century.
Rifkin’s Next Revolution
Jeremy Rifkin W’67 launched his career as an activist by protesting the Vietnam War. Now he’s making perhaps his biggest impact yet advocating for a “third industrial revolution” to save the world from stagnating productivity and the ravages of climate change.
Nov|Dec 2017
Volume 116, No. 2
The Carriage House, Pre-LGBT
Old Penn, Nov|Dec 2017
Events
Nov|Dec 2017
Alumni Notes
Nov|Dec 2017
Obituaries
Nov|Dec 2017
Letters
Nov|Dec 2017: Berk’s algorithms, Penn/UPenn pro and con, Roberts on Gelles, and more.
The Snow Day Kid
Fool for love.
My Rookie Season
New game, same competitive spirit.
Slamdance
The lure of lucha libre.
Cultivating Cassandras
The Cassandra Coefficient.
Arts Calendar
Nov|Dec 2017
Becoming Nazi
Thomas Childers’ The Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany.
Three Ways of Seeing Rome
Three Women Photographers in Rome at Arthur Ross Gallery.
Sweet 16
Daedalus to play all 16 Beethoven string quartets in a single season.