Taste Quakers
“Everyone who graduated from Penn is either a doctor, a lawyer or … a food writer, it seems.” Well, not quite, but this alumna soon found she wasn’t the only one—food writer, that is.
Strange Labyrinth
Behind the gift to Penn’s library of a very rare 17th-century book lies the moving story of an alumna scholar’s groundbreaking research and untimely death.
Summons to an Academic Adventure
Gutmann to new students: Move to Penn “major upgrade”
Administrative Posts Filled
Craig Carnaroli named EVP
A Vote for Fairness
Should people with dementia be allowed to vote?
A Fresh Start
Rodin to head Rockefeller Foundation
Counting Sheep in Space
Sleeping in space
One of the Fab Four
U.S. News & World Report ranks Penn fourth
A Winning Combination: Management and Technology
M&T program at 25
Kiss a Frog, Kill Germs?
Frog skin fights bacteria
Hospitality, Latin Style
La Casa Latina at five
It’s Official: No Grad Union
NLRB rules against union in Penn case
Extreme Makeover
Second high-rise renovation completed
Monumental Task
Rybczynski named to Commission of Fine Arts
Bad Snap: Streak Ends at 17
Football win streak broken at 17
“This is Where I Belong”
Dunphy stays at Penn
Homage to a Cathedral of Hoops
Palestra praiser Mikaelyn Austin
Learning and Leading
Since her nomination to become the University’s eighth president last winter, Amy Gutmann has spent a lot of time quietly thinking and talking with people about how to move Penn forward. Now she’s eager to get to work.
Signature Style
As he heads West for a teaching position in the other Washington, Paul Steven Miller C’83 looks back on a decade defending the rights of people with disabilities as an EEOC Commissioner—and a lifetime battling for his own.
Hard Questions, Uneasy Answers
Reflecting on his recent experience in Kurdistan, Brendan O'Leary, a leading scholar of ethnopolitical conflict, ponders Iraq’s future.
Growing Movement
At the Charlestown Cooperative Farm, alumna Aimee Kocis is helping preserve valuable farmland from development while keeping 105 area families well supplied with a variety of fresh, locally grown fruits and vegetables.
Writing For Her Life
Stephanie Williams C’92 was determined to fulfill her ambition to write and publish a novel before cancer killed her. With some help from her friends, she succeeded.
Labor Board Says No to Grad Unions
NLRB rules against grad-student unions.