From Chicken Suit to Fan Cave
Gideon Evans C’93
Into Africa
Norman Golightly W’94
Alumni Notes
Jan|Feb 2012
Obituaries
Jan|Feb 2012
Jan|Feb 2012
Volume 110, No. 3
Where (The Big) Health Savings Are
Penn's Ezekiel Emanuel in The New York Times.
(Lots) More Bones Beneath the Tracks
Good news and bad news from the Duffy’s Cut Project.
Where (Some) Health Care Savings Are
Penn's Ezekiel Emanuel in The New York Times.
Where the Health Care Savings Aren’t
Penn's Ezekiel Emanuel in The New York Times.
Pointing the Way to the Pole
He didn’t find the Open Polar Sea he was looking for—and probably overestimated how far North he actually managed to get—but the Arctic discoveries of Isaac Israel Hayes M1853 helped set the course for later explorers. And that was just the first of his several careers.
The Spirit of Caring
They don’t diagnose illnesses, prescribe drugs, perform medical procedures, or suggest treatment options, but chaplains and other pastoral care staff are a key part of the medical team at Penn’s hospitals.
Letters
Nov|Dec 2011
Darkest Before Dawn
“The circle breaks. We leave the parking lot and begin the morning’s run.”
A Train to Nowhere
Nearing the last station of my wife’s neurological decline.
Old Friends
Two chance meetings, 70 years apart.
Much Ado About Drones
Hysteria, hype, and the long view of war.
$3.5 Billion Goal Met, But Still A Ways to Go
Making History campaign passes $3.5 billion mark
Brinster Awarded National Medal of Science
Vet school’s Ralph Brinster V’60 Gr’64 wins top US science award
Navigational Advice for the Class of 2015
Convocation 2011: Soggy start to a transforming journey
New Wharton Center and Prize
$12 million to Wharton to support quantitative financial research
@Penn Engineering: #Majoring in Twitter
Tweet this: new engineering major focuses on networked systems
New Program for Energy VIPERs
Vageloses give $13.6 million for new program in energy research
Hunting Shadows
A new documentary pursues the reasons why so many Nazi war criminals were never brought to justice.
Brave New Voices
A concert of vocal works by young composers, many of them Penn graduate students, shakes up the classical scene.