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
New Chairman of the Board
Cohen to succeed Riepe as trustee chair next year
The Presidential Sweepstakes
Voters, place your bets!
The Plight of the Urban Plight
Big cities, little attention
Findings Political Edition
Just Say No(thing)? and The Geniuses of Democracy
Gutmann and Faculty Help Shape “Global Agenda”
Big Penn presence at “world’s largest brainstorming event”
A Prayer For Mumbai
Mourning for Mumbai victims
From Penn Provost to Hopkins President
Daniels leaving Penn for JHU presidency
CCT, CCC, CGS, LPS
CGS’s new name: College of Liberal and Professional Studies
Abby’s Rhodes
Abigail Seldin C’09 G’09 snares Rhodes scholarship