Volume 108, No. 3
Features
Man, The Drinker
Biomolecular archaeologist and Penn Museum researcher Patrick McGovern Gr’80 has found some of the oldest alcoholic beverages known to history, and he wants you to take a glug. They might just be responsible for civilization as we know it. (Not to mention your next hangover.) By Trey Popp
Steeped in Tea
Professor of Chinese Language and Literature Victor Mair spent years immersing himself in tea lore. His new book gives a fresh infusion of history to a venerable subject. By Samuel Hughes
How To Succeed in Show Business By Really, Really Trying
She’s played an amateur porn actress and a president’s wife, produces movies with her (fellow alum) husband, and is now poised to direct her own first film. Elizabeth Banks C’96 is working almost as hard as she did at Penn. By Caroline Tiger
Homecoming 2009
Photos from this year’s arts & culture focus and football’s big win over Princeton. Plus: The 75th Alumni Awards of Merit and Citations
Departments
From the Editor
From College Hall
Letters
ESSAYS : First Person
Notes from the Undergrad 171 miles of asphalt
Alumni Voices Escape reading
Elsewhere Noah’s ark, stuffed
Expert Opinion Diplomats on Defense
GAZETTEER : News & Sports
Class uses art to teach urban studies
David L. Cohen L’81 takes reins as trustee chair
Gutmann to head Obama bioethics panel
Milestone mashup: DP, GIC, M&T, and Women’s Studies celebrate
Findings
Museum mounts new show on Iraq’s Ancient Past
Miller out as men’s basketball coach
Ivy champs in football and volleyball
ALL THINGS ORNAMENTAL : The Arts
SPECIAL FOCUS: MEMOIR
INTERVIEW Ben Yagoda G’91 on Memoir: A History
REVIEW Only a really bad headache? A Brain Wider Than the Sky
PHOTOGRAPHY Force of memory. The Art of Caring
EXCERPT Istanbul to West Philadelphia. Cultures in Counterpoint
EXCERPT An accidental family. What Else But Home
REVIEW Seeds of selfhood. The Smile at the Heart of Things
ARTS CALENDAR
ALUMNI : Profiles
Doug Hensch C’91 and Andrew Rosenthal C’06 want you to be happy
Debbie Weiss C’89 sells cels at Wonderful World of Animation
Charles Snowdon Gr’68 knows what music monkeys like
Doug Woodring WG’95 sails the Plastic Vortex
Charles Terry C’90 Res’98 can hurt and heal you
Events
Notes
Obituaries
