Vol. 98, No. 3
Features
Silk Across the Sands
A rare exhibition of artifacts from Uzbekistan at the Arthur Ross Gallery offers a tantalizing glimpse of the cultures along the Silk Road. So did a symposium at the University Museum.
By Samuel Hughes
The World According to Gieg
Earth and Environmental Science Professor Bob Giegengack has fulfilled a boyhood dream of visiting exotic locales from the Sahara to the Antarctic and has earned the admiration and affection of a generation of students. He cautions today’s young academics not to follow in his footsteps.
By John Prendergast
Admission Denied
Naomi Nakano had already experienced discrimination at Penn when she was restricted to the basement of Houston Hall because she was a woman—then she found herself at the center of a storm of protest over the University’s wartime policy of excluding Japanese Americans from admission.
By Greg Robinson
Rebirth on the River
When the Fairmount Water Works was born in the 19th century, its cutting-edge technology and pleasing gardens drew hordes of tourists. Penn alumni working on a $26 million restoration and environmental-education project at the site hope to create a new life for this half-forgotten landmark that helped a city grow.
By Susan Lonkevich
Homecoming 1999
Slideshow | Photography by Tommy Leonardi C’89
Departments
From the Editor
On the Road.
Letters
Evans’ unfinished work, a wrong rhymed, more on architecture.
Notes From the Undergrad
Seeing a need and meeting it, one stall at a time.
From College Hall
Restoring the Health System’s finances.
Alumni Voices
A final choice.
Gazetteer
UPHS cuts workforce by 20 percent to reverse losses … FIRE’s fight for the right … First findings in gene-therapy death … Derrick Bell asks: who benefits from black success? … Leslie Nielsen on actors and lawyers … Study to assess minorities’ academic performance … Glandt named SEAS dean … $11 million for Baker Forum and financial aid … Hamilton Village architects’ designs.
Off the Shelf
Public art. A Clearing in the Distance: Frederick Law Olmsted and America in the Nineteenth Century.
Sports
Women’s basketball ranked first in Ivies.
Alumni Profiles
A more in-depth look at some of Penn’s outstanding alumni.
Ahmed Zewail Gr’74 Hon’97 | Nobelist Found a Way to Peer into the World of Molecules
Douglas Chu W’90 and Scott Samet W’90 | Spinning Sugar Into Lucre
Theodore Feder C’58 | Protecting Artists from Piracy—and Poor Taste
Martha Settle Putney Gr’55 | Worth Saluting
Nao Takasugi WG’46 | “Still the Greatest Country”
Emmanuel Modu WG’85 | Lemons, Sugar, Water … and a Marketing Plan?
The Alumni
Comings, goings, appointments, promotions, accolades, and other personal news
Pennsylmania
Double Acrostic.