The Accidental Mogul
Bo Zenga C’83
It’s a Mom, Mom, Mom, Mom Online World
Tina Sharkey C’86
Alumni Notes
Sep|Oct 2011
Obituaries
Sep|Oct 2011
A journey through Pixel-delphia
Hipster City Cycle, created by three Penn Engineering grads.
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.
Cup O’Doodles
Artist Gwyneth Leech C’81 started drawing on used paper cups as a distraction when she got “antsy,” but “then it began to really take over.” A few hundred cups later, she spent six weeks doing the same thing while sitting in a window in New York’s Fashion District in an exhibit called Hypergraphia.
Alumni Weekend 2011
Our annual photo essay. Plus: Reports from three alumni panels focusing on global health, the economy, and reality TV.
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.
A Legend Brings Soul to Seoul
Checking in with John Legend C’99.
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.”
A Safari with a Purpose
Marjorie Margolies CW’63 is at home in the world.
Jewelry Like Grandma Might Have Made
Jessica Bohrer C’98 and Becca Richards C’99 make jewelry like Grandma’s.
Alumni Notes
July|Aug 2011
Obituaries
July|Aug 2011
The Debunker Debunked
Samuel Morton (Class of 1820) is vindicated.
Suggested Summer Reading from Alumni Authors
Summer reading, 2011.
Days from the Tonys
a conversation with musical-theatre historian Larry Stemple Gr'79.
Barbie Zelizer on the missing bin Laden photo, and the public record
Why the photo’s absence from the record is a cause for concern.