An end to the debate?
Penn researchers prove that sea level is rising faster now than it has for the past two millennia.
Jennifer Egan C’85, in the Gazette and in the news
Penn’s first Pulitzer-winning novelist.
Surprises Are Always the Best
Like her four previous books, Jennifer Egan C’85’s A Visit from the Goon Squad received generally stellar reviews. But it didn’t look like this resistant-to-summary novel-in-stories would catch on with the public—that is, until she won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
Alumni Weekend 2011
Our annual photo essay. Plus: Reports from three alumni panels focusing on global health, the economy, and reality TV.
July|Aug 2011
Volume 109, No. 6
Letters
July|Aug 2011
¡Bienvenidos a Buenos Aires!
Now, put your hands up.
Doctor By Default
Some physicians can’t imagine doing anything else. I’m the other kind.
Across the Great Divide
Hiking over the hump of the continent, and something else.
Drinking the Passion-Flavored Kool-Aid
Why modern entrepreneurs won’t succeed under the influence.
Hollywood Ending
Denzel to Class of 2011: “Fall forward.”
Historian of Collapse Eyes the Present Day
Collapse author: “Take environmental problems seriously.”
$15 Million Gift for a New ARCH
$15 million anonymous gift to renovate ARCH.
Gamer U.
Penn Reading Project choice Reality is Broken launches Year of Games.
“Dorm Room Diplomat” Named Truman Scholar
Truman Scholar Corey Metzman.
Start-Up With Style
Wharton Business Plan-winner Stylitics makes dressing digital.
A Legend Brings Soul to Seoul
Checking in with John Legend C’99.
Artist with a Syringe
Artist and cosmetic-surgeon Eric Finzi C’77.
The Roar of the Literary Canon
Making sense of war and peace in literature.
Defending the Superheroes
Michael Lovitz C’86 is a copyright-lawyer for superheroes.
Farm Therapy
Kathleen Fields GNu’87 teaches kids farm-work, and more.
Coming to America
Curtis Macnguyen W’90’s life “has been beyond my imagination.”
Wharton Digital Press launches its first title into the ether
Portable, and available on every platform imaginable.
A Safari with a Purpose
Marjorie Margolies CW’63 is at home in the world.