The River
“Submitting the direction of our lives to the Current is one of the most difficult endeavors we can undertake.”
Art for Eyes and Ears
Landscape/Soundscape at the Arthur Ross Gallery
Notes and Whispers
An “extraordinary evening” at the Penn Museum.
Down the Rabbit Hole and into Art
A graphic-memoir of healing through dementia in Aliceheimer’s.
Briefly Noted
March|April 2017
Arts Calendar
March|April 2017
“Penn Will Not Bend”
Gutmann: Penn opposes executive order on immigration and refugees.
Data Defenders
Data Refuge project preserves federal data on climate change.
Wham! Smack! Pow! You’re Dead
PG-13 films: heavy on violence, light on consequences.
Star Struck
Looking back—way back—with Penn astrophysicist Bhuvnesh Jain.
New Portal to the Past
Digital Penn Museum expands online access to collections and more.
Shakespeare Shakeup
Shakespeare has some company in Fisher-Bennett Hall.
Pancreas Research Program Established
$12 million to establish Human Pancreas Analysis Program at Penn.
Commencement Speaker: Cory Booker
Senator Cory Booker of New Jersey to speak at Commencement.
Biden Coming to Penn
Biden joins Penn to lead Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement.
Serve and Rally
Tennis looks to improve standing; women’s lacrosse to dominate.
Scoreboard
From Dec. 5, 2016 to Feb. 5, 2017
In Pursuit of Justice
Over more than three decades, mostly at the US Justice Department, Eli Rosenbaum has made a career and a calling out of tracking down Nazi war criminals and more recent human-rights abusers.
Bone Warrior
Dinosaur hunter Edward Drinker Cope studied briefly at Penn in his youth and ended his days as a faculty member at the University. In between, the impulsive and driven scholar churned out more than 1,400 scientific publications—and exchanged many harsh words—in an epic battle with his more methodical rival, Othniel Charles Marsh of Yale, for primacy in the nascent field of paleontology.
Jan|Feb 2017
Volume 115, No. 3
Thinking Makes It So
From College Hall, Jan|Feb 2017
Letters
Jan|Feb 2017: Stem cells, charter-school debate, first thoughts on the election.
Who’s Invasive?
Window, Jan|Feb 2016
Events
Jan|Feb 2017