TV Room Tranquility, Revolutionary Robotics, Sweeter Swings
PennVention, Wharton competitions award cash for creativity
Research in Brief
Research in Brief
After Dunphy, It’s Miller’s Time
Brown’s Miller to succeed Dunphy
Mitt Man
Albert “Doc” Bushong D1882
The House that Writers Built
The Kelly Writers House celebrates 10 years as an experimental learning community and literary “sandbox.”
The Reverse Engineer
Forget nature versus nurture. From cooperation to social stigma, morality to mating, evolutionary adaptation is the key to understanding human behavior, says Penn psychologist Robert Kurzban.
“Heaven is a Mixed Neighborhood”
In this excerpt from his new book, Metropolitan Philadelphia, the author describes “the closest thing I have known to a peaceable kingdom.”
Passion Plays
After a long string of smash hits and artistic triumphs in film, Marc Platt C’79 is back with his first love—theater—with the Broadway phenomenon Wicked.
Understanding Pashto
Benedicte Grima Santry spent years in the remote reaches of Afghanistan and Pakistan. What she learned—and now teaches—is invaluable, especially in the wake of 9/11.
Quiet Goes the Don
The late Alan Halpern was more than just a brilliant, groundbreaking editor.
Continental Drift
In his latest work, an atlas of North American English, Penn sociolinguist Bill Labov shows that we are talking more differently from one another.
Ben Ed
Library exhibit traces Franklin’s educational ideas
Revering, Rejecting, Rethinking Ben
Ben, begone?
Steinem Addresses Gender, Masculinity
Steinem: Gender equality “and a great time on the way.”
Commencement Envy
Commencement complaints (What else is new?)
Global Solution: Foreign Investment Will Save the Developed World
Siegel says: Embrace foreign investment
Boom … or Doom?
Assessing Philadelphia’s building boom
A Healthy Rank for Penn Medicine
School of Medicine ranked third in U.S. News
Leaving Penn, but not West Philadelphia
Blaik resigns as facilities and real estate VP
Research in Brief
Research in Brief: May|Jun 2006
Bargain Now, Blush Later
Book tells brides how to bargain without blushing
Desi Dancing the Night Away
Getting down with Dhamaka
Penn’s Most Dangerous Minds?
Penn’s “tenured radicals”?
Lifting the Burden of School Loans
Penn replaces loans with grants for incomes under $50,000