Hitting Pay Dirt—er, Mud—in the Black Sea
Flood of discoveries in Black Sea.
Who’s Dependent Now?
Welfare reform’s reverse dependency.
Patient’s Family Sues Over Gene Study
Lawsuit filed in Gelsinger death … Settlement follows
Wistar Scientists Cleared of Hatching AIDS
Wistar polio-vaccine not cause of AIDS.
Triple Crown?
Men’s basketball is poised for a “threepeat.”
Support Wear for Ailing Hearts
Heartwarming medical advance.
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.
Glenn McGee on Brits, Yanks and … Male Birthing
Glenn McGee on his year studying bioethics in Britain.
Rapisarda Leaves Alumni Relations
Rapisarda resigns as alumni relations director.
Peter, We Hardly Knew Ye
Health System CEO leaving after four months.
Family Secrets for Sale? Ask Your Kids (and Offer a Gift)
“The Internet and the Family 2000: The View from Parents/The View from Kids”
The Media, the Message and the Meaning
Unconventional wisdom from Annenberg's Jamieson.
The Substance of Style
Plachy photos kick off Humanities Forum with "style."
IHGT Gets Another Warning from FDA
FDA cites gene lab on animal studies.
Give Them a Place to Boot Up and They’ll Wire the World
Wiring the world, in Mali and India
Roman Corinth: They Came, They Saw, They Digitized
Roman Corinth online
Time for Football
Returning veterans promise improvement in Penn’s prospects.
Double Play
David Jordan L’59 and Dr. John Rossi Gr’65
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.