Letters
Nov|Dec 2014: Digital Netork’s iPad problem, zoos as prisons … and more.
Events
Nov|Dec 2014
Alumni Notes
Nov|Dec 2014
Obituaries
Nov|Dec 2014
Healthcare Behind Bars
Bruce Herdman WG’75 Gr’82 G’83 directs healthcare for Philly’s prisons.
Leading the Fight Against Childhood Cancer
John Maris M’89 co-leads a “Dream Team” fighting childhood cancers.
A Labor of Love from Her Brain to Yours
Brain Pickings is Maria Popova C’07’s “one-woman labor of love.”
Cold Shower Therapy
Immersive experience.
Philosopher on the Lathe
Creative practice = examined life.
A War-Scattered Family
“A War-Scattered Family.”
Consider the Turkey
Celebrating turkeys.
Thefts, Words, Memories
Moyra Davey’s Burn the Diaries at ICA.
Trust
Rottenberg on Greenfield.The Outsider.
Arts, Humanities, and the Research University: Do They Have a Future?
The future of the arts and humanities in universities.
Briefly Noted
Nov|Dec 2014
Arts Calendar
Nov|Dec 2014
First-year Bioengineering Prof Nabs “Genius Grant”
Bioengineering professor Danielle Bassett wins “genius” grant.
Wharton on the Radio
Knowledge@Wharton launches programs on SiriusXM Satellite Radio.
Wounded Warriors and the Legacy of WWI
Medical historian Beth Linker on war and the limits of rehabilitation.
Jerome Allen Faces a Tipping Point
Make-or-break season for men’s basketball coach?
Scoreboard
From Sept. 5 to Oct. 5
With the Donbas Battalion
A young reporter gets his first taste of war in eastern Ukraine.
A Principled Man
Nathan Mossell M1882 overcame great odds to become the first African-American graduate of Penn’s School of Medicine. He went on to found Philadelphia’s first black hospital—an achievement he never really wanted.
Sept|Oct 2014
Volume 113, No. 1