Carole Solomon’s Sacred Mission
In Israel with the first woman to chair the United Jewish Appeal.
Don’t Worry, This Won’t Be on the Exam
Short, non-credit courses called preceptorials allow students to explore foreign intellectual worlds—and get acquainted with faculty outside the classroom.
The China Syndromes
A wide-ranging interview with Penn's resident China expert, political science professor—and alumnus—Avery Goldstein.
Martin Seligman’s Journey From Learned Helplessness to Learned Happiness
The renowned Penn professor of psychology has refocused the field toward the encouragement of mental health, launched an investigation into the causes and prevention of ethnopolitical warfare—and vowed to stop being such a grouch.
Taking On the Tobacco Giants
Bill Novelli has peddled soap, advertised pet food, and even promoted a presidential election campaign. He's now involved in the toughest marketing job of his career—keeping kids away from cigarettes.
Before & After
A five-year conservation program is restoring Penn's extensive—and long-neglected—collection of bronze outdoor sculptures to their former glory "to be seen, enjoyed, and inspire anew."
Making Waves
A conference marking the 25th anniversary of Penn's women's studies program brought together faculty, students, and leaders in the field to surf the past 3.5 waves of feminism and debate the turbulent currents ahead.
The Stock Market Sage
When he was a kid, Wharton finance professor Jeremy Siegel liked to chart the growth of morning glories in his back yard; now he directs his keen attention to the rise and fall of the stock market.
The Flu of 1918
It started with a cough in the summer of 1918. In the next 120 days, nearly 22 million people around the world would die in one of the worst epidemics in modern times. And Philadelphia was to be the American city with the highest death toll.
Through a Glass Darkly
Stephen Glass's glittering career in journalism took off at The Daily Pennsylvanian and crash-landed when he was discovered to have fabricated dozens of articles for national magazines. Did this talent for invention color his work at Penn?
The Bible’s People
A new permanent exhibit at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology draws on artifacts from excavations spanning much of the century to reveal the daily lives of the Bronze and Iron age inhabitants of Canaan and ancient Israel.
Constitutionalist in Cyberspace
In the decade and a half since he graduated from Penn, legal scholar and internet enthusiast Lawrence Lessig has emerged as a leading thinker in the application of Constitutional concepts to the realm of cyberspace—and gotten Bill Gates (among others) mad at him.
Spreading the Word
Two small centers at Penn are taking on the giant task of bringing the three R's to the nation and the world. In a high-tech, academic way, of course.
Rewriting the Final Chapter
As medicine advances, the choices associated with end-of-life care grow more complex — especially when patients or their families clash with doctors, the state, and occasionally each other, over when to treat and when to let go.
2002: A Cyberspace Odyssey
Physically they arrive on campus this month, but for 32 incoming freshmen their "Penn experience" started last January -- via the Internet.
Wildwood at Heart
Could a team of Penn architecture students learn enough from the quintessential Jersey Shore-town's pop-culture past to guarantee its future?
The Scent of Art
A tale of two brothers—and their museums.
Knowing El Niño
There was no getting away from El Niño this year -- in newspapers and magazines, on TV, or anytime you walked out the door. But if you think you know all about it, you're wrong, says Dr. Michael Glantz, who's been studying the much-maligned weather phenomenon for the past quarter-century.
Dramatic Entrance
David Stone has been stagestruck since he choked up at the end of Man of La Mancha at age four. At 31, he's a veteran Broadway producer -- most recently, of the controversial revival of The Diary of Anne Frank.
Rediscovering Troy
Academic turned museum-director Tom Carroll is hoping that a greater awareness of its rich past will help Troy, New York -- an industrial powerhouse of the last century that has fallen on hard times in this one -- rise again in the next.
Start Me Up
The letters P.O.V. were once synonymous with I.O.U. Today the fledgling men's magazine, co-founded by a Penn alumnus working off his laptop, has multimillion-dollar backing, an office equipped with its own bar, and a new nightlife supplement called Egg.
Coal Miners’ Doctor
Forty years ago, a freshly-minted M.D. learned about life and death -- and how to drink home-brewed beer and (almost) eat squirrel's brains -- while practicing medicine in the hills of eastern Kentucky.
Reflections of a Couple of Book Prize Judges
An insider's view of the passions, politics, and personalities involved in, well, singling out literary merit.
Dear Doc Schelling
The original copies of the following letters, written by Ezra Pound to Felix Schelling and other people at Penn over a 20-year period, are in the special-collections department of Van Pelt Library. No attempts have been made to correct Pound's idiosyncratic spelling and grammar.