Obituaries
May|June 2015
Events
May|June 2015
Fear, Loathing, and Denial
Denying hurt doesn’t make it disappear.
Skeleton Coast
Ships beyond counting.
The Waymaker
Andy Strauss has spent 25 years preserving land and creating trails to restore natural beauty to blighted landscapes. Now he has a vision for the hardscrabble coal country of northeastern Pennsylvania.
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.