Luck and Timing, Dread and Relief
Alan Kirschenbaum W’83
Drama Dame
Susan Bernfield C’86
Somebody’s Been Listening
Stephen Jaffe C’77 G’78
Renovation Empire
Curtis Bashaw WG’90
Alumni Notes
Sep|Oct 2012
Obituaries
Sep|Oct 2012
Hidden Dragon, Sweaty Rowers
Penn’s Dragon Boat Team
Rush’s Remedies
Two centuries after its publication, Founding Father and early Penn faculty member Benjamin Rush’s pioneering work on mental illness prompts alarm and admiration—as well as reminders about ongoing challenges in the mental-health field.
Is That All There Is?
On the road with Zach and Buzz, Peggy Lee on the car stereo, and the meaning of life. An excerpt from Father’s Day: A Journey into the Mind and Heart of My Extraordinary Son.
Alumni Weekend 2012
Photos from the Alumni Weekend 2012 festivities
Letters
Jul|Aug 2012
Seems Like Old Times
The rotary phone, transistor radio, three-piece-suit-on-an-airplane blues.
Pilgrim’s Progress
On walking at the spirit’s pace.
Driving Up The Dalton
A road lover celebrates his 80th year on the most distant patch of gravel he can find.
The Third Man
How America’s secret hunt for al Qaeda’s No. 3 transformed the struggle against terrorism.
Needed: Winners for the “Losing Team”
Canada to Class of 2012: “Get in the game”
Honorary Degrees
Honorary-degree recipients
Gutmann Gets Five-Year Contract Extension
Contract extension will keep Gutmann in College Hall until 2019
Garry Kasparov on Chess and Politics
Kasparov on politics: “The comparison with chess is not correct”
Improving Women’s Health—One Man, Pig, or Cityscape at a Time
Nursing’s Center for Global Women’s Health holds first symposium
Findings
Blood Sugar, Brains, and Memory plus Pain: Separate but Unequal
Holocaust Archive Comes to Penn
Shoah Foundation’s Holocaust archives coming to Penn
To Err is Divine
Learning from Brilliant Mistakes
How Gardens Grow
What happens to us when we walk through a garden.