Now on Trial: Justice in Smart Vs. Dumb
What “blind justice” misses.
A New Home for Early American Studies
McNeil Center for Early American Studies gets $6 million.
New Dental Dean Appointed
University of Alabama’s Marjorie Jeffcoat named dental school dean.
Penn and Health Care Trust Dissolve Agreement
Gifts Revisited: Penn and Philadelphia Health Care Trust dissolve $100 million agreement
Where the Wild Things Were
What killed the woolly mammoth?
Emeritus Professor, Emerging Painter
Former SAS Dean Rosemary Stevens’ “parallel career” as a painter.
Court Orders Penn to Pay Up
Penn ordered to pay $2.9 million to vet school professor
The Magic of Birth and Bricks
Magical “birth brick” discovered at Abydos in Egypt
Cutting Through the Smoke
Caryn Lerman and her colleagues at the Transdisciplinary Tobacco Use Research Center are hot on the trail of biological, psychological, and social means to counter tobacco’s addictive power.
Spreading the Words
A century after University Museum archaeologists uncovered thousands of tablets bearing the earliest known form of writing and 25 years after efforts began to compile a dictionary of the language, the Penn Sumerian Dictionary Project is going online.
Speaking Out Against War
Faculty “teach-in” and students march against war on Iraq
Assault Allegations Shock Campus
Five charged in assault on Princeton debater
NLRB Rules: Some Grad Students Are Employees
NLRB rules for grad-student union elections
‘Summit’ Highlights Alumni Presence in Media
Alumni in the media gather in New York for first “summit”
Making a Commitment to Residential Life
Hassenfeld and Fishers give $11.5 million for Quad renovations
Huntsman Hall: Wharton’s New Nerve Center
Wharton’s $140 million Huntsman Hall opens
More Patients + Fewer Nurses = More Deaths
Fewer nurses means more patient deaths
Three’s Company
2003 Writers House Fellows: Bernstein, Anderson, and Sontag
Hamilton House Makeover
New furniture—and more—for Hamilton House
Building a Better Homepage
Spinning a new Web site
Remembering 9/11
Marking the first anniversary of 9.11.01
Freshmen Get the Message: “There is No Sure Thing”
“Open your minds, and we’ll open one another’s eyes."
Walter Annenberg Dies
Philanthropist Walter Annenberg dead at 94; last gift was $100 million for Annenberg School .
Solar Neutrinos Shine on a New Nobel Laureate
Physics professor Ray Davis wins Nobel for work on solar neutrinos.