Unconditional Pavlov
Daniel Todes spent 25 years researching and writing his epochal biography of Ivan Pavlov. The result is a science historian’s answer to Tolstoy, Turgenev, and Dr. Zhivago.
Living Up to the Lipstick
In the two decades since her breast-cancer diagnosis, Geralyn Lucas C’89 has become an icon and inspiration to fellow survivors for her flamboyant and gleefully defiant response to her disease. It all started with her choice of lipstick to wear for her mastectomy.
Strange But True
How Mike Finkel’s life became a movie.
Pitch Perfect and Penn
What movie do Penn Masala, John Legend, and Elizabeth Banks all have in common?
Using Your Words
Q&A with artist Martha Rich MFA’11.
Alumni Notes
March|April 2015
Obituaries
Mar|Apr 2015
Events
Mar|Apr 2015
The Men Behind the Madness
CBS Sports’ “Madness” men Stephen Karasik C’95 and Tyler Hale C’96.
Making Seamless Connections at 30th Street
Natalie Shieh EAS’02 LPS’08 GCP’09 is helping reshape 30th Street.
The Numbers Game
Alumni who love baseball, numbers, and baseball numbers.
Sweet Within: Emblems of Canada
Sheldon Posen Gr’78 curates Canadian culture, and celebrates it in song.
If You Build It, They Will Grow
Andy Toy C’80 G’81 got Chinatown’s community center off the ground.
A Twitter Eclipse of the Heart
Language on Twitter can predict heart-disease risk in a community.
Blood Brothers
Grief, and a gift.
Lew’s Place
The only place to be.
Hacking The Great Distractor
“We can learn to use technologies more wisely.”
White Tower Power
White Towers Revisited at Architectural Archives.
The T-Cell Warriors
Four years after a tentative but tantalizing breakthrough against leukemia, Carl June and Bruce Levine C’84 have gone from the fringes of gene therapy to the center of a revolutionary approach to cancer treatment.
Journey from the East
More than 80 years ago, the paths of two Penn students—one from China, the other from New Jersey—intersected. The resulting friendship changed their lives, and those of their families.
Down By Law
Alice Goffman was a Penn undergraduate when she began doing the fieldwork for the project that became On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City. It’s an important, unsettling exploration of a serious issue. Just try not to focus on her.
Penn’s Ebola Fighters
They tend to be uncomfortable with terms like “fighter” and “hero,” but it’s hard to know what else to call these alumni and staff volunteers who’ve traveled to the heart of the epidemic to do whatever they can to help its victims.
Arts Videos for a Snow Day (or Not)
Whether you're home on a snow day or not, these Penn-related arts videos from around the web are worth watching.
The Hardest Roommate
Me time, pro and con.