$70 Million Design Package for Engineering
Engineering awarded $70 million gift-in-kind
Blogging Against the Machine
Blogger Juan Cole on tenure’s coming collapse
$10 Million Gift for Community Partnerships
Penn’s Center for Community Partnerships has been channeling the University’s expertise and manpower toward West Philadelphia’s urban challenges since 1992.
Findings
Research in Brief
Summit Psychology
Women’s soccer Ivy champs
Home Court Advantage
Ed Stefanski W’76
Seizing the Moment
The University’s top leaders promise that Penn’s $3.5 billion fundraising campaign will make history—by changing the face of Penn’s campus and extending its local and global impact, strengthening financial aid and faculty support, and pointing a new multidisciplinary direction in higher education. With $1.6 billion already committed, donors seem to be listening.
Prisoners, Poems, and Principles
Why is attorney Marc Falkoff representing detainees at Guantánamo Bay and publishing a book of their poetry?
Digital Natives in Tomorrow’s Classroom
Today's Web-washed, text-messaging, technology-tethered undergraduates don't learn the way even their recent forebears did. Meanwhile, professors in the School of Engineering want to make them masters of technologies yet to be invented. When the two sides meet in the classroom, all the rules have changed.
Diagnosing Health Care
Four Penn scholars examine U.S. health care—and its political future.
East Campus Rising
Cira Center South to replace Eastern eyesore
Off-Campus, Close By
New housing options (just) off-campus
New Alumni Relations AVP: “It’s All About the Relationships”
Alumni Relations AVP Hoopes Wampler
The Poetics of Giving
Thinking outside the gift box at Writers House
A Better Endowment Return
Endowment grows 20.2 percent to $6.6 billion
The Reign of Hodges Begins at the Penn Museum
Richard Hodges named Penn Museum director
Best Class Ever—For Now
Freshman Convocation: 45 months and a lifetime
Findings
Findings
$20 Million Gift for Nanotech
Krishna Singh GME’69 Gr’72 gives $20 million for nanotech
Promise of Spring?
Basketball preview
Youth, Interrupted
The Adolescent Mental Health Initiative is a major, Penn-led effort to address what one expert calls the “chronic diseases of the young.”
The Ethnologist Sets Out
William Curtis Farabee conducted pioneering studies of the Amazon for the Penn Museum in the early part of the 20th century. His journals and notebooks offer extraordinary glimpses of the area’s indigenous peoples, and the artifacts he brought back offer an unmatched—and still largely unexamined—treasure-trove of cultural materials.
Web, Take Two
The ranger of a virtual dog park, an Internet entrepreneur-turned-venture capitalist, a story scout, a “fake engineer,” and a word-of-mouth marketer are among the Penn players in a movement known (by some) as Web 2.0.
Beyond Gun Control
Guns aren’t going away, so how can we live with them more safely?