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.
Alumni Weekend 2000
Alumni Weekend 2002
Vision + Plan + Competition = $uccess
$75,000 awarded to winning business plans.
They Wrote the Book
Undergraduates co-edit foreign policy book
On The Biology, and Bouquet, of Women
Natalie Angier on women and evolutionary psychology
New Fuel Cell Offers Flameless Energy—Without Hydrogen
Flameless fuel-cell promises cleaner energy source
Passing the Baton, Gleefully
New Glee Club director named
Bioethics-Center Plans Reconfigured by Press
Caplan blasts press on bioethics treatment
External-Committee Recommendations Prompt Changes at IHGT
IHGT will no longer conduct human trials
Lang Steps Down as Dean of Nursing
Lang steps down as nursing school dean
Revamping Locust Walk
Student groups gain space on Locust Walk
Metamorphosing into Freshmen with Kafka
Freshmen will read Kafka’s Metamorphosis
Between Two Worlds, Under the Open Sky
Commencement 2000
Wrapping Up
All basepaths lead to Rome?
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.