“No Other Life”
The Mourning of Mario Lanza, Chubby Checker's twisting rise and fall, a race riot in North Philadelphia and the Phillies' 1964 "nervous breakdown." Memories of a boyhood in the city.
Raising Caine
Uri Caine's imaginative, genre-crossing musical projects—mixing influences from Bach to bebop and beyond—are sparking controversy and garnering international acclaim.
Advising Women
From paying off your credit card debt to helping your kids manage their allowance, these members of the Class of 1986 have the answers to all your financial questions.
Homecoming 2000
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Award of Merit Recipients
Homecoming 2000
This is Only a Test
Rather than wrangle over a hypothetical new curriculum, the College of Arts and Sciences has opted for an experimental approach—with help from some pioneering freshmen.
Putting on a Show
More than half a century after Hal Prince left Penn to become Broadway's brightest off-stage star, he is still passionately committed to getting new musicals on stage.
Coming Home
Adrift in the great sea of university life, the author found an academic anchor—and much more—studying the history and sociology of science.
The Big Picture
David Koerner, a Penn astronomer and accomplished pianist, probes the universe for clues about how prevalent planetary systems, and life itself, may be.
“Tweaked, Not Trendy”
That's how architect Wendy Evans Joseph describes her work—which has ranged from a dramatic pedestrian bridge across a busy street a the edge of New York's East River to the conversion of a one-time opera house/cattle auction yard in Dallas into a Women's Museum.
The Education of Pedro Ramos
As a college activist, Pedro Ramos C’87 learned the importance of tenacity. Now he's using it in his drive as Philadelphia's school board president to improve education opportunities for 213,000 children.
Perelman Quad, Complete
A loving restoration of Houston Hall and the new Wynn Commons put the finishing touches to Penn's undergraduate hub.
Audience Participation Requested
How far with the leaders of Penn's arts and cultural institutions go to get people through the doors?
Resistance Fighter
Medical School alumnus and bacteria researcher Dr. Stuart Levy warns against the overuse of antibiotics, a potential public health nightmare for the 21st century.
Lily Yeh’s Art of Transformation
Dissatisfied with her work as a painter, Lily Yeh was searching for "a luminous place, a place where I could locate the sacred in the mundane"—and found it in blighted North Philadelphia.
Class Acts
With volunteerism on the rise nationally, Penn's alumni programming has expanded beyond highball toasts and traveling lectures to include cleaning up parks and driving nails, creating new ways to engage with the old alma mater.
Wideman on Campus
The writer John Edgar Wideman—a star athlete and Rhodes Scholar at Penn in the early sixties—was back on campus last spring. In a wide-ranging interview at Kelly Writers House, he talked about the construction of reality, the joys of basketball, the writer’s search for a subject and the mysterious power of faith.
Alumni Weekend 2000
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Monty in Full
Bruce Montgomery is laying down his baton after half a century at Penn. In a spirited interview, he talks about his musical triumphs, tribulations and travels.
Haunted by an Heiress
Ever since first reading her as an unhappy child at camp, Nina Auerbach has returned to the novels and stories of Daphne du Maurier. Now, in a new book from the University Pennsylvania Press, the Victorian scholar and Penn professor ponders her lifelong obsession with the writer best remembered—unjustly—for Rebecca.
Saving the Animal Planet
The Veterinary School’s Center for the Interaction of Animals and Society is attempting to find common ground in the animal-welfare debate. Getting the Lion and the Lamb together was nothing in comparison.
A Passion for Evidence
The new director of the Fels Center is a renowned criminologist with a zeal for finding out what works—and using it.
TeleStudies
Kids spend more than 20 hours a week in front of the TV. Are yours watching what they should? Would you know? Researchers at the Annenberg Public Policy Center have some answers.
Looking In, Looking Out
Architect Barton Myers’ designs set the stage for art and life in the city.