Volume 104, No. 6
Features
The House that Writers Built
Kelly Writers House celebrates 10 years as an experimental learning community and literary “sandbox.”
By Susan Frith
The Reverse Engineer
Forget nature versus nurture. From cooperation to social stigma, morality to mating, evolutionary adaptation is the key to understanding human behavior, says Penn psychologist Robert Kurzban.
By Julia M. Klein
“Heaven is a Mixed Neighborhood”
In an excerpt from his new book, Metropolitan Philadelphia, Steven Conn Gr’94 describes “the closest thing I have known to a peaceable kingdom.” Plus: An interview with the author
Alumni Weekend 2006
Our annual photo essay.
By Addison Geary
Something About Barbaro
After the Kentucky Derby winner’s shocking injury in the second leg of the Triple Crown, his owners—alumni Roy and Gretchen Jackson—turned to Penn’s New Bolton Center to save their beloved horse’s life.
By Kathryn Levy Feldman
Departments
FIRST PERSON : Essays
Notes from the Undergrad Ultimate thrill
Alumni Voices Love and fate
Elsewhere Sri Lanka’s contrasts
Expert Opinion Whose death?
GAZETTEER : News & Sports
Inspiration from Ben and Emimem at 250th Commencement
First Penn Integrates Knowledge professor appointed
GSE Dean named president of Columbia Teachers College
No more gifts from pharma reps allowed at HUP
My Big Fat Reality Show: Penn nutritionist uses TV to fight obesity
High-rise infrastructure improvements to cost $106.5 million
Massey: Don’t blame illegals for African Americans’ plight
PennVention, Wharton competitions award cash for creativity
Research in Brief
Brown’s Miller to succeed Dunphy
ALL THINGS ORNAMENTAL : The Arts
Art What the bartender saw
Books Mommy Wars. Reports from the front
Architecture and Design The Raymonds’ “Modern World”
Briefly Noted
Arts Calendar
ALUMNI : Profiles
Slang sage Tom Dalzell C’71
Mitt man Albert “Doc” Bushong D1882
GSE’s Generations of Botels
Family healer Lisa Buksbaum C’82
ALUMNI : Events : Notes : Obituaries
