Sick Culture
Raw Material. What the Victorians thought about disease
Candide, Pangloss, and Cunegonde Join Class of 2005
Candide best of all possible choices for Penn Reading Project
Ever Changing, Always Themselves
The Seduction of Place. Why we love the cities we do.
Misgivings. A poet’s memoir of family life.
Bearing Witness in Blue
Harrison Tao C’74
Sam Maitin’s Sistine Chapel
When the Christian Association relocated this winter, it took the mural Sam Maitin created 15 years ago along—and commissioned him to do a new one, too.
Jews and Modernity: Fragments and Shifting Notions
“Jews & Modernity” at the Arthur Ross Gallery
Flashback
Recalling some forgotten performers of rock’s real “glory days.”
A Princess’s Diary
Dr. Cecilia Segawa Seigle Gr’71
The Underground World of Cockfighting
Loren Mendell C’95
Three Slackers, Three Bikes, and a Prairie
Jeremy Lerman C’97 and Matt Wasowski C’97
New Faces
Department of Fine Arts Graduate Faculty.
Briefly Noted
Mar|Apr 2001
An Artist’s Life, Set to Music at Penn
Gary Fagin C’73
In the Cards
Dr. Robert Fitts C’87
Ancient Cats, Kings and Goddesses Return
Egyptian artifacts return from travels.
The Endless Search for the Self
The cerebral nature of being human. Altered Egos: How the Brain Creates the Self;
A family forever transformed. Where Is the Mango Princess?
Color-conscious
Elizabeth Osborne FA’59
“There Will be Cake!”
Ruth Branning Molloy Ed’30 invited friends to help her celebrate “90 years of uninterrupted living.”
Supermarket for Scandal
Whistle-blower's reward: jail time. Rats in the Grain. Penn and the prize. Prize Stories 2000: The O’Henry Awards.
A Japanese-American Legend Set to Song
Rob Redei C’97
The Color of Mummy
Dr. Zahi Hawass G’83 Gr’87
Audience Participation Requested
How far with the leaders of Penn's arts and cultural institutions go to get people through the doors?
The Substance of Style
Plachy photos kick off Humanities Forum with "style."
Tracing Twain’s Travels
Following in the footsteps of a literary legend, 100 years later.