Barbaro’s Race Ends
Barbaro’s last days
Nobel-Winner MacDiarmid Dies
Nobel-prize chemist Alan MacDiarmid dies at 79
Martin Luther King Day 2007
Campus honors MLK’s legacy
Exit Alig
Alig resigns as alumni-relations AVP
Research Briefs
Attacking HIV with a (Modified) V; Found in Translation: Cholesterol-Cutting Drug; Bending DNA No Problem at Nano-Scale
Bringing Penn’s Treasures Back Home
Display highlights Penn treasures—and collector who found them.
Economics Professor on Trial
Economics professor charged with murder
The Logic of Torture
Heard on campus: Peter Singer on torture
Smokeless Smoke’s?
Smokeless Joe’s
Unlearning to Talk: Q&A with Charles Yang
How children learn language; or, why wuckoo?
Civic Scholars: A “Galvanizing” Program
New four-year program combines service and scholarship
Where’s That Other Eakins Clinic Again?
Whatever happened to Penn’s Eakins masterpiece?
On the Road Again
Kelly Writers House celebrates Kerouac classic
But Where Do They Go to Sleep?
No kitchen-sink studies? College Houses offer everything but
A Game to Remember
Foul shots down Owls in Dunphy’s return
Hoops for Life
Dave Wohl C’71 hasn’t had to get a “real job” yet
Journey to Estonia
Louis Kahn Ar’24 Hon’71 left Estonia as a little boy in 1906. A century later, some members of the great architect’s “family through choice” went back to explore his tangled roots and legacy.
The Radical and the Restorer
As the international blockbuster King Tut exhibition comes to Philadelphia’s Franklin Institute, the Penn Museum has unveiled an eye-opening companion show on the radical religious and political experiment imposed by the boy-king’s predecessor (and putative father), the Pharoah Akhenaten.
Homecoming 2006
2006 featured the Game (a tough loss to Princeton, unfortunately), the Awards of Merit Gala, and the finale of a year-long commemoration of the 125th anniversary of the University’s first African-American graduate, James Brister D1881.
Penn Praxis Tapped for Delaware Waterfront Project
City asks Penn Praxis to advise on waterfront’s future
Engineering’s Rough-Hewn, High-Tech Castle
Skirkanich Hall, bioengineering beauty
Harker Leaves Wharton for Delaware Presidency
Wharton Dean Harker named University of Delaware president
Turning Andean Silver into Green
Wharton helps silver artisans in Peru shape greater profits
Research Briefs
Benefits of Neighborhood Cleanup Go Beyond Beauty; Now It’s Matter, Now It’s Not; Stretch Nerves After They Snap