Volume 103, No. 6
Features
Expect to Hear Music
Something is definitely up with Penn’s music department. In addition to studying, analyzing, thinking about, and writing music, students are playing it, too. Plus: “Accidental genius” Jennifer Higdon. | By Karen Rile
LEAPP of Faith
“How do you get to know a patient as a person first, not as a container for a disease?” Penn’s medical school is looking to LEAPP—Longitudinal Experience to Appreciate Patient Perspectives—as one answer. By Huntly Collins | Plus: “I Want to Remember Everything,” a student perspective by Defne Amado
Alumni Weekend 2005
Our annual photo essay. | By Addison Geary
Insuring Against Terror
Since 9/11, Howard Kunreuther and his colleagues at the Wharton School’s Center for Risk Management and Decision Processes have been examining the thorny issue of how to protect society from the economic effects of the next terrorist attack. | By Jon Hurdle
Departments
FIRST PERSON : Essays
Notes from the Undergrad:“Even at home, things are changing”
Alumni Voices:Idol encounter
Elsewhere:In search of porcupine stomach
Expert Opinion:Being funny is no joke
GAZETTEER : News & Sports
Annan: “The cause of larger freedom should be your cause”
Grads pledge to do good in chosen work
Q&A with new Provost Ronald Daniels
Conference highlights global threats to women
Penn Reading Project pick: Franklin’s Autobiography
Better minesweeper takes PennVention prize
Wound sealant wins honors at Wharton
Keys to learning
$5 million to develop “swarming” robots
Do “clutch hitters” exist?
Trees make good neighborhoods
Pole vaulter Stephanie Crook
Latest Hall of Famers
Scoreboard
Honoring “world’s greatest oarsman” Joe Burk
50 years later, crew team recalls triumphant tour
ALL THINGS ORNAMENTAL : The ArtsArt Heroic portrait: Chuck Close
Talk Wendy Steiner on “dream modeling”
Symposium Hometown honors William Carlos Williams
Books Bright Boulevards, Bold Dreams. Black Hollywood’s Golden Age?
Books Maxfield Parrish and the American Imagists
Books True Story. Murderer saves journalist
Briefly Noted
Arts Calendar
ALUMNI : Profiles
Movie memoirist Frawley Becker
“BananaBunker” creator Paul Stremple
Sims stylist Charles London
Women’s Leaguer Narda Quigley
ALUMNI : Events : Notes : Obituaries