Volume 105, No. 3
Features
Journey to Estonia
Louis Kahn Ar’24 Hon’71 left Estonia as a little boy in 1906. A century later, some members of the great architect’s “family through choice” went back to explore his tangled roots and legacy. By Samuel Hughes
The Radical and the Restorer
As the international blockbuster King Tut exhibition comes to Philadelphia’s Franklin Institute, the Penn Museum has unveiled an eye-opening companion show on the radical religious and political experiment imposed by the boy-king’s predecessor (and putative father), the Pharoah Akhenaten. By Beebe Bahrami
Homecoming 2006
This edition of Penn Alumni’s big fall weekend featured the Game (a tough loss to Princeton, unfortunately), the Awards of Merit Gala, and the finale of a year-long commemoration of the 125th anniversary of the University’s first African-American graduate, James Brister D1881.
Departments
FIRST PERSON : Essays
Notes from the Undergrad “This was not my Ramadan”
Alumni Voices Calculating age’s “sum of destructions”
Elsewhere An aviation fantasy come true
Expert Opinion Getting good value
GAZETTEER : News & Sports
City asks Penn Praxis to advise on waterfront’s future
Skirkanich Hall, bioengineering beauty
Wharton Dean Harker named University of Delaware president
Wharton helps silver artisans in Peru shape greater profits
Research Briefs
Symposium analyzes Philadelphia’s rise in violence
Brian and Ralph Roberts give $15 million for proton-therapy center
Leventhal steps down as Penn Museum director
What the Founders learned from those who were here first
Basketball springs forward, football falls flat
Scoreboard
ALL THINGS ORNAMENTAL : The Arts
Photography Rustbelt rescue. Titusville Steelworkers
Books Marconi and the murderer. Thunderstruck
Architecture Penn to get Venturi Scott Brown archives
Arts Calendar
ALUMNI : Profiles
Their dinner with the Iranian ambassador
Gene detective Daniel Weinberger M’73
Vatican blogger Rocco Palmo C’04
Snowy CEO Rob Katz W’88
ALUMNI : Events : Notes : Obituaries