Despite Downturn, Firm Commitment to Greater Access
The latest on Penn and the economy
Seeking Commencement Speaker? Google It.
Google CEO to speak at Commencement
The Moore Building Goes Matrix
Computer-graphics center opens in old ENIAC home
Dental School Names New Dean
New dental dean named
Miller’s Time Not Up Yet
Bilsky on Miller: “Let’s be patient”
Open Treasure
Penn’s Rare Book and Manuscript Library has a message for students, alumni, and book lovers everywhere. Online or on campus, come up and see us sometime!
Findings
Killer T-Cells for HIV, Adult Stem Cells for Liver Therapy, and the Urban Beauty Dividend
The Clavichord of the Scientist’s Soul
Orchestrating knowledge
Requiem for a Volunteer Surgeon
Remembering John Pryor
Down With Jefferson, Up With Grant?
Rethinking presidential rankings
At a Crossroads, Engine Sputtering
Different tune in basketball
You Didn’t Tell Me There’d Be a Shot
Window, Mar|Apr 2009
Digging Routes
Nick Spitzer C’72’s sonic gumbo is unlike anything else on radio.
Inside the Cancer-Cell Smasher
In the last century, American medicine has gone from a cottage industry to a technology-driven juggernaut. The machine at the heart of the new Roberts Proton Therapy Center, dubbed “the world’s most expensive and complex medical device,” provides a glimpse of what the coming years may hold.
View from the Trenches: Debriefing the Presidential Election
Election 2008 from the inside
The Zeus Dig Goes Deeper
More proof on origin of Zeus worship
Financial Meltdown: The Class
Wharton’s class on the crisis
The Truth, Sort of, About Lies
Lies and their tellers
An Architect Walks Into the Lab
Can architects help create next-generation treatments for cancer and lung disease? Will the buildings of tomorrow have intelligent skins? What does figure skating have to do with it? An unusual partnership between Penn cell biologists and design students is tackling a lot of strange questions. Their answers may rewrite the rules of biomedical research.
The Energizer Dean
From her distinctive outfits to her influential research to her indefatigable efforts to raise the profile of Penn’s School of Nursing, Dean Afaf Meleis commands attention—provided you can keep up with her.
In Dreams Begin Discoveries
Revisiting a century-old essay—still cited in the scientific literature—in which one noted Penn scholar dissected the “problem-solving” dreams of two others and showed how they slept their way to insights that eluded their waking selves.
Homecoming 2008
Homecoming 2008
“In Bad Times We’re in Relatively Good Shape”
Weathering the economic storm
New DuBois Mural
South Street mural honors W.E.B. Dubois