Jan|Feb 2016
Volume 114, No. 3
FEATURES
Haresh Lalvani Gr’81 believes there’s a universal code for form—a “morphological genome” that determines the shape of built structures, similar to the way that DNA shapes living things. And he’s well into the process of decoding it. By Samuel Hughes
In Risky Medicine, History and Sociology of Science Professor Robert Aronowitz argues that today’s fixation on diagnosing and managing risk factors rather than treating diseases leads to anxiety and stress, over-diagnosis of conditions and overuse of drugs, and radical treatments that are unnecessary or harmful. By Kevin Hartnett
One hundred years after a Penn professor was famously fired for his political views, a campus symposium on academic freedom wrestled with a familiar question:
Are universities still homes of free speech and inquiry? By Samuel Hughes
Our annual photo essay. By Tommy Leonardi C’89
Plus: Alumni Award of Merit winners and citations
DEPARTMENTS
First Person: Essays
NOTES FROM THE UNDERGRAD A line of smoke
ALUMNI VOICES “We did do some good”
ELSEWHERE Getting to November 26, 1944
EXPERT OPINION Fellow wanderers
Gazetteer: News & Sports
“Everything he did was trying to help other people”
$10 million Schattner gift will renovate main dental clinic
Centuries of scandal: sex abuse and the Church
Needed? A new college-application portal
Heard on Campus: Tipping point
Rhodes Scholars Adebisi Ogunrinde and Jenna Hebert
Bringing together first-generation college students at Penn
President’s Innovation Prize to award $100,000
Football shares Ivy League crown; cross country competes nationally
Arts
MUSIC Yearlong celebration of Zydeco at WXPN
INTERVIEW Lisa Green C’82’s legal guide for women, On Your Case
ART James Mundie CGS’97 documents “interesting people” in Exhibitionists
Alumni: Profiles
Chris George C’77 is helping settle Syrian refugees in the US
Stephanie Tramdack Cash WG’78 left her desk for an oyster farm
Nyles Lannon C’95 makes a living in music
: Events
: Notes