Mr. Penn conquers Vegas
Whether he’s in the lab or in the gym, Balduzzi describes his ideal as a life that balances mind and body. “You can use your mind consciously, all day—every day—to change your body,” he says. “And it’s a very empowering process.”
Another Take on WikiLeakage
In the wake of the recent flood of US Government documents to WikiLeaks, David Jones C'63 G'64, a retired senior foreign-service officer in the US State Department, offered to write an essay on the matter for the Gazette.
Homecoming 2010
Photos from Penn’s fall celebration of arts & culture, football, and fun.
My Ivy-Strangled Valentine
“It was in the CUPID line that I noticed Steve K.”
On The Road
From Peking to Paris in a 1932 Plymouth.
Up Tempo
Jennifer Higdon G’92 Gr’94 reviewed and interviewed.
Designing Men
Alumni firm KieranTimberlake’s London embassy.
Creating a New Museum for a Venerable History
Gwen Goodman Ed’56 led the NMAJH to Independence Mall.
Drive
Fran McCaffery C’82’s coaching philosophy: Expect to beat everybody.
Momma Knows Best
Ruth Eni Ed’45 GEd’46 is “Momma Dietz.”
Hit and Running
Nargus Harounzadeh C’06 has won an amazing race to recovery.
Alumni Notes
Jan|Feb 2011
Obituaries
Jan|Feb 2011
Abele Honored
A mural and new neighborhood park in southwest Center City named in Abele’s honor.
Alumni create a “living” art museum
Elsewhere in North Carolina.
Busting Ghosts
By most conventional measures William Watson G’86 Gr’90 is a pretty rational guy. Also a pretty smart one.
Bones Beneath the Tracks
In the summer of 1832, 57 Irish laborers died suddenly while building the first railroad in Pennsylvania. Alumnus Bill Watson and a host of other Penn people have been trying to find out what really happened. And they’re getting close.
Doing the Time Warp with Wax
The scene, Mangoes restaurant in Allentown; the time, Friday evening, October 29. The occasion was a Beaufest, honoring the late Beau Jones, the bassist for Wax who died this past September.
More Light
“I think that what is changing about my writing is my willingness to go darker so that I can come out with more light,” says memoirist and fiction writer Beth Kephart C’82. In her new novel, set in Philadelphia during the Centennial, a young woman contemplates suicide following the accidental death of her twin.
Lesson Plan
“I sell love.”
The Wounded Wore Aftershave
One day in a doctor’s life at the 399th Combat Support Hospital in Iraq.
Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Ei-ichi Negishi Gr’63 shares Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
Rethinking Design
DesignPhiladelphia founder Hilary Jay C’83.
Catalyst for a Cure
Lee Ducat Ed’54 is on a mission to cure diabetes.