Volume 106, No. 6
Features
Bridges to the Gulf
Three years after Hurricane Katrina, recovery is far from complete. Hundreds of students and faculty from schools across Penn are volunteering in New Orleans and the Gulf Coast in what may be the largest university-based relief effort from outside the immediate region. By Samuel Hughes
Lincoln’s American Dream
In 1858, tumbling financial markets prompt a religious revival, the government launches a “diversionary crusade,” and a new leader finds his voice. An excerpt from Throes of Democracy by History Professor Walter A. McDougall. Plus: An interview with the author
What Women Wanted
Celebrating 20 years of “a new paradigm” for Penn. By Susan Frith. Plus: A report from the Trustees Council of Penn Women Spring Conference
Alumni Weekend 2008
Photos of the festivities by Addison Geary
Departments
FIRST PERSON : Essays
Notes from the Undergrad Leaving home in Bosnia
Alumni Voices Standing tall in Houston Hall (at last)
Elsewhere The guilt of having choices
Expert Opinion An education reform that might work
GAZETTEER : News & Sports
Commencement: A “toast” from Michael Bloomberg
Honorands
Penn helps teachers take lessons back to the classroom
New College House architect named
From research assistant to co-editor in just seven years
Findings
Penn golden when it comes to green power
Original sin and power politics, perfect together
Fishers give $50 million for translational medicine
Vet prizes fight global poverty, change students’ lives
Dental School Dean Jeffcoat steps down
Who says grad school is no fun?
SOM’s Marilyn Jordan Taylor succeeds Hack at Design
Women’s lacrosse reaches NCAA finals
Scoreboard
ALL THINGS ORNAMENTAL : The Arts
EXHIBITION What they found in the museum. Penn in the World
ART Photographer John Yang GAr’57’s lyric journey
Briefly Noted
Arts Calendar
ALUMNI : Profiles
Penn Alumni President Lee Spelman Doty W’76
Newseum chairman Alberto Ibarguen L’74
Cathouse creators Doug Leferovich C’94 and Seth Yudof EAS’94
Dueling Tampons website wizard Matt Rosler C’96
Bible translator Carl Harrison Gr’70
ALUMNI : Events : Notes : Obituaries
