Full Circle
University Museum Director Jeremy Sabloff found his life’s path through an undergraduate anthropology course at Penn. Now, after an extraordinarily productive decade at the museum’s helm, he is ready to head back to the classroom.
Sarah Kagan’s “Genius Idea”
The 2004 MacArthur Foundation Fellow and nursing professor calls on clinicians to listen to patients“talk about what hurts, where the itch is, how tired they are, what they’ve done about it, and how illness has changed the way they live.”
Building Leadership—And Wells, and Hospital Wings
Student-led group aims to raise $50,000 to aid Paraguay
The Way We Communicate
Media professionals and aspirants meet at second Summit
A House Built with Ideas
Weiss Tech House is home for student-inventors
Two Takes on a Civil Rights Icon
Jackson and Dyson on Martin Luther King’s legacy
Basketball’s Bounces
In basketball, women start strong, but will men rebound?
Who’s Minding the Brain?
As our ability to peek inside the brain—and to alter it—expands, the field of neuroethics is beginning to emerge (with the help of a few Penn Scholars) to study the implication for society and the individual.
Homecoming 2003
Homecoming 2003
The Double Shift: Managing Careers and Families
Skidding off the fast track?
A Woman’s Place—in the Academy
Panel looks at women in academe
Quad Arrest Prompts Questions
Police stop of faculty spouse under investigation
Written in Stone
Penn women’s history chronicled in stone
A Place for Community—and Kosher Dining
Steinhardt Hall is Hillel’s new home on campus
The Input Bias: When Quantity Trumps Quality
More means better, right?
Opiates Without Rx —A Prescription for Trouble
Drug pushers go digital
A New Chapter for English Department’s Home
$16.4 million approved for Bennett Hall renovations
Wetland Restored: Wildlife Approve
Restoring a wetland at Morris Arboretum
Homework: Head Start
GSE to design Head Start curriculum
Revitalize, Take the Prize
Revitalization projects recognized
Undefeated!
Champions in football and volleyball
What Happens to the Mail
“A reader of other people’s mail wants a challenge”
The House That Joe Built
The new National Constitution Center is billed as a museum of ideas rather than artifacts—but it might have remained just an idea if not for alumnus Joe Torsella.
The University as Discourse Community
In this essay from the book, Public Discourse in America, Penn’s president lays out a vision of universities as “exemplars of a new kind of thoughtful civic engagement and robust public discourse.”