
Volume 103, No. 5
Features
Small Technology, Big Promise
With the help of an $11.4 million grant from the National Science Foundation, Penn’s new Nano/Bio Interface Center is asking the “fundamental questions” about nanotechnology. | By Samuel K. Moore
Taking the Trouble to See
Share Our Strength founder and executive director Bill Shore knows that world hunger can be ended. | By Lewis I. Rice
A Remarkable Record
More than 50 years after it was written and nearly a century since the events described, Penn Law Professor and Dean Edwin Keedy’s account of the murder trial of two Inuit men in Canada’s far north remains a vivid and timely piece of scholarship. | By Dennis Drabelle
What’s Next?
“This is a book about land, and about how land, like us, changes over time.” An excerpt from Ghosts in the Garden | By Beth Kephart
Departments
FIRST PERSON : Essays
Notes from the Undergrad: Worst trip, best trip
Alumni Voices: Admissions anxiety
Elsewhere: Dream job: Ox herder
Expert Opinion: “The style is in the words”
GAZETTEER : News & Sports
Ancient Afterlives in China and Egypt
How Egypt’s other 80 percent lived
Penn Integrates Knowledge receives $10 million gift
U.N.’s Annan picked as Commencement speaker
New research on rankings
In search of civil-rights history
Technique promises “bottomless repository” of stem cells
Tracking AIDS in Africa
Riepe House-warming
Playwriting fellowship premieres
Reality TV revealed at Media Summit 2005
McIntosh sentenced in sexual assault
Basketball: Tim Begley’s team
Baseball: Bob Seddon’s farewell
Scoreboard
ALL THINGS ORNAMENTAL : The Arts
Design “Groundswell”: Beauty in Brownfields
Books A Change of Heart. Framingham study’s legacy
Film Ice Princess-screenwriter Hadley Davis
Photography Becky Young retrospective
Symposium Greil Marcus on “Resistance”
Briefly Noted
Arts Calendar
ALUMNI : Profiles
Indonesian expert (and deportee) Sidney Jones
Robot researcher Ralph Etienne-Cummings
Walking man Roy Thomas
lilaguides creators Oli Mittermaier and Elysa Marco
New Republic managing editor Jeremy Kahn
ALUMNI : Events : Notes : Obituaries