Vicarious Bacchanalia
Window, March|April 2015
Making Seamless Connections at 30th Street
Natalie Shieh EAS’02 LPS’08 GCP’09 is helping reshape 30th Street.
The Numbers Game
Alumni who love baseball, numbers, and baseball numbers.
Sweet Within: Emblems of Canada
Sheldon Posen Gr’78 curates Canadian culture, and celebrates it in song.
Ghost Boosters
Who ya gonna call … to study the “sociological truth” of ghosts?
A Deeply Rooted Rhodes Scholar
College senior Rutendo Chigora of Zimbabwe named a Rhodes Scholar.
Archaeology Education Gets an Upgrade
A close look at the Center for the Analysis of Archaeological Materials.
Findings
High altitude and lung cancer, Alzheimer's and antidepressants, all work and no sleep.
Baseball and Lacrosse On the Cusp
High expectations for baseball and men’s lacrosse.
Scoreboard
From Dec. 8 to Feb. 2
Four-Course Fridays
Full plate.
Blood Brothers
Grief, and a gift.
Lew’s Place
The only place to be.
Hacking The Great Distractor
“We can learn to use technologies more wisely.”
Still Crazy Good After All These Years
Q&A with Ben Yagoda G’91 on his book, The B-Side.
Looking Beyond the Gold
Beneath the Surface at the Penn Museum.
Moving on from Marx
An emeritus professor of sociology recalls his political and intellectual evolution.
Briefly Noted
March|April 2015
Arts Calendar
March|April 2015
Elementary
Even in the era of Big Science, some of the greatest discoveries start with someone—Penn physics professor and Nobel contender Charles Kane, for instance—just sitting in a room and thinking.
Journey from the East
More than 80 years ago, the paths of two Penn students—one from China, the other from New Jersey—intersected. The resulting friendship changed their lives, and those of their families.
Penn’s Ebola Fighters
They tend to be uncomfortable with terms like “fighter” and “hero,” but it’s hard to know what else to call these alumni and staff volunteers who’ve traveled to the heart of the epidemic to do whatever they can to help its victims.
Jan|Feb 2015
Volume 113, No. 3
It’s in Your Pocket
From College Hall, Jan|Feb 2015