May|June 2015

27 Apr 2015

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May|June 2015
Volume 113, No. 5

FEATURES

Andy Strauss has spent 25 years preserving land and creating trails to restore natural beauty to blighted landscapes. Now he has a vision for the hardscrabble coal country of northeastern Pennsylvania. By Trey Popp

Unconditional Pavlov

Daniel Todes spent 25 years researching and writing his epochal biography of Ivan Pavlov. The result is a science historian’s answer to Tolstoy, Turgenev, and Dr. Zhivago. By Samuel Hughes

Living Up to the Lipstick

In the two decades since her breast-cancer diagnosis, Geralyn Lucas C’89 has become an icon and inspiration to fellow survivors for her flamboyant and gleefully defiant response to her disease. It all started with her choice of lipstick to wear for her mastectomy. By Alyson Krueger

From Skimmer to Fling

Looking back at the (r)evolution of spring festivals at Penn. By Violet Baron

Strange But True

How Mike Finkel’s life became a movie. By Caren Lissner

DEPARTMENTS

From the Editor

From College Hall

Letters

First Person: Essays

NOTES FROM THE UNDERGRAD Facetime for mourning

ALUMNI VOICES Denying hurt doesn’t make it disappear

ELSEWHERE Ships beyond counting