What’s Behind a New Wave of Crime?
Symposium analyzes Philadelphia’s rise in violence
Roberts Family Gives $15 Million for Proton Therapy Center
Brian and Ralph Roberts give $15 million for proton-therapy center
Leventhal Out as Museum Director
Leventhal steps down as Penn Museum director
Franklin and the Iroquois Foundations of the Constitution
What the Founders learned from those who were here first
Basketball’s New Era, and a Football Season Best Forgotten
Basketball springs forward, football falls flat.
Music Lessons
Carol Muller’s ethnomusicology class partners with a West Philadelphia Islamic school to explore the sounds of the Qur’an, and each other’s communities.
Lowering the Temperature
The threat of terrorism is real, but America’s response to it is dangerously counterproductive, writes Penn political-science professor Ian Lustick in this excerpt from his new book, Trapped in the War on Terror.
Law Made Plain
Though it pushes plenty of hot buttons in the issues it takes up for debate—domestic spying, torture, criminal sentencing for juveniles, and immigration reform, to name just a few—for close to a decade the Annenberg Public Policy Center’s Justice Talking program has functioned as the opposite of “shout” radio.
Workers of the World, Adapt!
After 30 years in the trenches, Andy Stern has become the labor movement’s rising star. But can he change unions fast enough to save them?
Early Admissions: Whose Advantage?
Penn will maintain Early Decision program in admissions
Connecting Mind and Spirit
New center explores mind, spirituality, and health
Nice Catch
Wharton junior hauls in a big catch: $1.5 million
Introducing the “Passionately Intense” Class of 2010
A rainy welcome for the “passionately intense” Class of 2010
Penn Seventh in U.S. News Rankings
U.S. News and other rankings
Marketing Professor Will No Longer Teach Following Arrest
Emeritus professor Scott Ward charged in child porn case
Research Briefs
Compromised keyboards, measuring moods, the eye and the ethernet
Keeping Penn in the Family
Legacies program supplements alumni parents’ “antiquated” tales
A Lasker for Beck
Cognitive psychology founder Aaron Beck wins Lasker award
Samurai-vy Warriors
Ivy-Samurai Bowl: the 8,000 mile pass
“Everyone’s Got a Positive Attitude”
Football’s “positive attitude”
Squash: With All Respect Due
Squash teams rise
The Mother of All Races
North vs. South. The Great Match Race
New Campus Dawning
Penn’s recently approved master plan envisions playing fields and green space where there are now parking lots; the transformation of Walnut Street’s “dead zone” into a mixed-use mecca; new housing, research, and athletic facilities—plus river views and a seamless connection between University City and Center City.
Retiring Ringmaster
Acclaimed composer Osvaldo Golijov Gr’91 doesn’t mind being famous, but he’d rather talk about music than himself—or better yet, write it.