Art With Punch
Worth 1,000 words.
Exit Laughing
How many of us can say that the last words we heard from a sick friend made us roar with laughter?
Tour of Duty
Four decades after Vietnam, a former soldier mounts a different mission.
Down and Out in Ireland and Greece
Does the debt crisis in Europe spell the end of the single currency?
Joe’s Café Opens
Menu for sustainability at Joe’s Cafe.
Tlingit Claim on Museum Objects Triggers Federal Scrutiny
Tlingit tribe and Penn Museum argue over artifacts.
Making Scents of the Past: The History of Cleanliness
History professor Kathleen Brown on what it means to be clean.
Superblock Gets a Sitcom
Students produce “Classless” comedy.
Overtime Blues for the Comeback Quakers
Men’s basketball: better, but still rebuilding.
Classical Revolutionary
Veronica Jurkiewicz C’04 foments Classical Revolution.
Inhabiting Geometry
Gallery-scale model by architect Anne Tyng Gr’75 at ICA.
Speak, Pain
A physician who has looked at pain from both sides examines the language we use to describe it.
Briefly Noted
Mar|Apr 2011
Giving Birth to Hope
Kitsie Converse CW’63 CGS’95 did not forget her friend Victo.
Pushing the Animal-Rights Envelope
Dara Lovitz C’00 defends animals and their advocates.
Alumni Notes
Mar|Apr 2011
Obituaries
Mar|Apr 2011
Jay Matsueda W’95 creates an album of volunteers
How did Jay Matsueda W’95 scrape together studio time with some of L.A.’s finest session musicians? “Barter, and the underground economy,” he says.
Old Penn Vol. III, 1904-05
Third in a 110 part series.
Wax in 1971
Lost photos from a band still making Rolling Stone Top 10 lists today.
NFL news roundup, Penn edition
A lockout that could shorten—or even cancel—next year’s NFL season, and carry a multi-billion dollar price tag.
Anton Bernstein: (yet another) W’08 entrepreneur
Anton Bernstein just finished his undergrad at Wharton in 2008, but he's already sold one company. He currently splits his time between San Francisco and Paris, where he's building business number two.
Economic stress trickles down to incoming freshman
It seems that not even incoming freshman are immune from economic gloom. According to a recent major survey, our newest college students are entering higher learning with historically low levels of optimism about the job market and historically high levels of stress.
Warning: Robot Construction Ahead
Meet the quadrotor, a four-propeller helicopter-style creature that lately has been whizzing around Penn’s GRASP robotics lab with increasing sophistication.