Uphill Battles
Basketball: men & women looking to the future.
Serious Satire
The satiric science fiction of James Morrow C’69.
Girls, Interrupted (by a Lens)
A new exhibition at the Arthur Ross Gallery shows “the pathological in the everyday.”
On with the Show!
A new book examines the remarkable history of the American musical theater.
Briefly Noted
May|June 2011
Tracing the Class of 1811
The Class of 1811 in profile.
Endorsements, Inc.
Endorsement deal-maker Michael Balser C’90.
Alumni Notes
May|June 2011
Obituaries
May|June 2011
The Frosting of War
Ultimate Collegiate Cupcake Decorating Competition
T-minus Six Days
Catch the Philadelphia Science Festival before it ends.
Don’t look if you’re already hungry: Penn Appétit hits news stands
Penn's awarding-winning food magazine.
Jennifer Egan C’85 takes home the National Book Critics Circle award for fiction (updated: and the Pulitzer)
The award statement calls A Visit From the Goon Squad “a novel at once experimental in form and crystal clear in the overlapping stories it delivers, offering us a sense of youth and what gets lost along the way.”
Experimental poetry gains a new home at the Kelly Writer’s House
Jacket2 comes to Penn.
Dara Lovitz C’00 on house cats, songbirds, and animal law
Conversation with the animal rights activist and lawyer whose book Muzzling a Movement was released earlier this year.
Cynthia Kaplan C’85 is feeling a little bit Fangry
Kaplan was in Philly just before Christmas, delivering her yuletide carols to an enthusiastic crowd at the Tin Angel.
Neurosurgeon Michael Lemole M’95 is recognized, again
When he stepped up to the microphone at the press briefing after surgery and delivered an update on Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, Lemole became a sort of unofficial spokesperson for the tragedy.
Now on YouTube: Classless
Undergrad life, skewed and skewered.
Jon Sarkin C’75 splashes some paint on Guster
The art of Jon Sarkin C'75 is all over the music video for Guster's hit song "Do You Love Me," and if you look closely you can see Sarkin himself make a cameo.
Penn Fights the Civil War
As soldiers on the battlefield or doctors in military hospitals, Penn alumni and faculty played remarkable roles in the nation’s bloodiest conflict—serving both North and South.
Passion Play
Sure it’s nice being a giant in the world of psychology, but sometimes Marty Seligman “just can’t wait to get to the bridge screen.”
Mar|Apr 2011
Volume 109, No. 4
Letters
Mar|Apr 2011