Best-Case Scenario
Five years ago, David Borgenicht C’90 and Joshua Piven C’93 came out with a little humor book titled The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook. Since then, things have gone from worst to, well, pretty incredible.
Remember the Reunion
The 70 members of Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity who went to fight in World War II wrote hundreds of letters for The Delta Pen, a newsletter created by Henry A. Pope W’43. A new book collects some of them.
A Marriage “Meant to Be”
Amy Gutmann’s inauguration as the University’s eighth president featured a day of community service, a concert on Hill Field, and a wide-ranging symposium, among other events. In her inaugural speech the president called for a new “Penn Compact.”
Homecoming 2004
Photos from the game. Plus: Alumni Award of Merit Citations.
Taste Quakers
“Everyone who graduated from Penn is either a doctor, a lawyer or … a food writer, it seems.” Well, not quite, but this alumna soon found she wasn’t the only one—food writer, that is.
Strange Labyrinth
Behind the gift to Penn’s library of a very rare 17th-century book lies the moving story of an alumna scholar’s groundbreaking research and untimely death.
Learning and Leading
Since her nomination to become the University’s eighth president last winter, Amy Gutmann has spent a lot of time quietly thinking and talking with people about how to move Penn forward. Now she’s eager to get to work.
Signature Style
As he heads West for a teaching position in the other Washington, Paul Steven Miller C’83 looks back on a decade defending the rights of people with disabilities as an EEOC Commissioner—and a lifetime battling for his own.
Hard Questions, Uneasy Answers
Reflecting on his recent experience in Kurdistan, Brendan O'Leary, a leading scholar of ethnopolitical conflict, ponders Iraq’s future.
Growing Movement
At the Charlestown Cooperative Farm, alumna Aimee Kocis is helping preserve valuable farmland from development while keeping 105 area families well supplied with a variety of fresh, locally grown fruits and vegetables.
Writing For Her Life
Stephanie Williams C’92 was determined to fulfill her ambition to write and publish a novel before cancer killed her. With some help from her friends, she succeeded.
The Global Garden
Penn’s Morris Arboretum owes much of its botanical diversity to the work of plant hunters, whose pursuits (fortunately) are a little less dangerous today than they were a century ago.
A Dark Task
The chaplain asked if I was the lieutenant who had killed a man the day before. I told him I was.
Alumni Weekend 2004
Slideshow
Saving Bentley
Penn’s veterinary hospital not only offers treatments that can prolong quality of life when a pet gets cancer, but also conducts research that sheds light on the disease in humans.
Freak Love
James Mundie has crafted a portrait gallery of “Anomalous Humans” that forces us to confront some uncomfortable truths about the Other and Ourselves.
The Rodin Years
A look back at an extraordinary decade for Penn, and the President who led the way.
Who’s Who on the Savannah
Studying the social knowledge of a troop of baboons in Botswana, Penn researchers Dorothy Cheney and Robert Seyfarth gain insights into monkey cognition—and our own.
Creating Space
Architects Peter Shelton and Lee Mindel design interiors that are as striking as they are “eminently livable.”
Dentist of the Purple Sage
Before Zane Grey began creating legends of the American West, he was a hard-throwing Penn dental student named Pearl.
Full Circle
University Museum Director Jeremy Sabloff found his life’s path through an undergraduate anthropology course at Penn. Now, after an extraordinarily productive decade at the museum’s helm, he is ready to head back to the classroom.
Sarah Kagan’s “Genius Idea”
The 2004 MacArthur Foundation Fellow and nursing professor calls on clinicians to listen to patients“talk about what hurts, where the itch is, how tired they are, what they’ve done about it, and how illness has changed the way they live.”
Who’s Minding the Brain?
As our ability to peek inside the brain—and to alter it—expands, the field of neuroethics is beginning to emerge (with the help of a few Penn Scholars) to study the implication for society and the individual.
Homecoming 2003
Homecoming 2003