Overtime Blues for the Comeback Quakers
Men’s basketball: better, but still rebuilding.
NFL news roundup, Penn edition
A lockout that could shorten—or even cancel—next year’s NFL season, and carry a multi-billion dollar price tag.
The NFL’s designated Decider: Stephen Burbank
This time of year, NFL fans are pretty much focused on one thing only: the Superbowl.
( ) This Education
What happens when you unleash an entrepreneurship evangelist on an education school? Meet Doug Lynch, the vice dean bent on making Penn GSE a hub for social entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, and next-generation educational reform.
When West Went East
Victor Mair first encountered the Bronze Age mummies of China’s Tarim Basin 23 years ago. He—and others—have been trying to figure out what those people were doing there ever since.
A Shelf Full of Resolutions
Five Penn authors offer challenges and inspiration to readers seeking better self-control, wiser conversations, age-appropriate outfits, meaningful reading, and wholesome eating.
PENN 2.0
The University is now active on all manner of social networks—and students, faculty, and staff members are even inventing new ones of their own.
Homecoming 2010
Photos from Penn’s fall celebration of arts & culture, football, and fun.
Bodybuilding for the Brainy
Bodybuilding competition combines hard bodies, sharp brains.
$15 Million Gift to Expand Retailing Center
$15 million gift will endow Baker Retailing Center
Campus Cultural Centers Turn 10
Cultural centers La Casa Latina, PAACH, and Makuu mark 10 years.
Linguists of the World, Unite?
Chomsky and Labov anchor linguistics conference.
Give That Leftist a Latte
Brewing ideology.
Habitat For (Aging) Humanity
PennDesign conference explores architecture of old age.
The Ethics of Early Intersex Intervention
Brownlee lecturer: “Should we be afraid of big clitorises?”
The Ink of the Letter of the Law
Cross-examining law professor and NFL special master Stephen Burbank.
Gridiron Dominance, Glimmerings of a Hoops Revival
Ivy title for football; basketball’s not-bad start.
Drive
Fran McCaffery C’82’s coaching philosophy: Expect to beat everybody.
Hit and Running
Nargus Harounzadeh C’06 has won an amazing race to recovery.
Bones Beneath the Tracks
In the summer of 1832, 57 Irish laborers died suddenly while building the first railroad in Pennsylvania. Alumnus Bill Watson and a host of other Penn people have been trying to find out what really happened. And they’re getting close.
Spreading Hope and Music
Through music and a grassroots organization for girls,
ethnomusicology grad student Jennifer Kyker is making things happen in Zimbabwe.
On Hearths, Ancient and Modern
In which the author takes a break from the rigors of her own ethnographic research in France’s Dordogne region to visit with eminent Penn archaeologist Harold Dibble as he plumbs the mysteries of early human and Neandertal behavior—and plots his next gourmet meal.
More Light
“I think that what is changing about my writing is my willingness to go darker so that I can come out with more light,” says memoirist and fiction writer Beth Kephart C’82. In her new novel, set in Philadelphia during the Centennial, a young woman contemplates suicide following the accidental death of her twin.
Making History, Ahead of Schedule: Campaign Passes 80 Percent Mark
Making History campaign reaches $2.85 billion.