Cricket Craze
Students gather to watch 2003 Cricket World Cup
Make It Plain!
Michael Eric Dyson—professor, preacher, and “paid pest”—brings a critical eye and rhetorical flair to his analyses of hip-hop culture and his call for social justice.
Laugh It Up
For three young alumni trying to make it in New York, comedy is serious business.
The Good Citizen
When asked why he gave, the late Walter Annenberg—Penn’s largest benefactor, who for years headed the list of Most Generous Americans—always said, “Because it’s the right thing to do.”
Now on Trial: Justice in Smart Vs. Dumb
What “blind justice” misses.
A New Home for Early American Studies
McNeil Center for Early American Studies gets $6 million.
New Dental Dean Appointed
University of Alabama’s Marjorie Jeffcoat named dental school dean.
Penn and Health Care Trust Dissolve Agreement
Gifts Revisited: Penn and Philadelphia Health Care Trust dissolve $100 million agreement
Where the Wild Things Were
What killed the woolly mammoth?
Emeritus Professor, Emerging Painter
Former SAS Dean Rosemary Stevens’ “parallel career” as a painter.
Court Orders Penn to Pay Up
Penn ordered to pay $2.9 million to vet school professor
The Magic of Birth and Bricks
Magical “birth brick” discovered at Abydos in Egypt
Fran Dunphy’s Tough Love
Challenging road ahead for men’s basketball.
The Constant Reader
In his acclaimed 2002 documentary, Stone Reader, Mark Moskowitz used his search for the writer of a novel he admired to create a “Huck Finn story for guys who love books.” Now the lost author is back at work, the film is out on DVD, and Moskowitz is leading the fight to revive other forgotten works.
Cutting Through the Smoke
Caryn Lerman and her colleagues at the Transdisciplinary Tobacco Use Research Center are hot on the trail of biological, psychological, and social means to counter tobacco’s addictive power.
Second Time Around
A program offered through the College of General Studies allows retirees—Penn alumni and others—to audit courses in the School of Arts and Sciences.
Learning to See Lancaster Avenue
When a suburban commuter finally got out of his car, he found himself viewing an old street—and its people—through new eyes.
Spreading the Words
A century after University Museum archaeologists uncovered thousands of tablets bearing the earliest known form of writing and 25 years after efforts began to compile a dictionary of the language, the Penn Sumerian Dictionary Project is going online.
Homecoming 2002
Slideshow | Game photos and more from Homecoming’s 50th anniversary.
Speaking Out Against War
Faculty “teach-in” and students march against war on Iraq
Assault Allegations Shock Campus
Five charged in assault on Princeton debater
NLRB Rules: Some Grad Students Are Employees
NLRB rules for grad-student union elections
‘Summit’ Highlights Alumni Presence in Media
Alumni in the media gather in New York for first “summit”
Making a Commitment to Residential Life
Hassenfeld and Fishers give $11.5 million for Quad renovations

















