Vol. 99, No. 2
Features
Putting on a Show
More than half a century after Hal Prince left Penn to become Broadway’s brightest off-stage star, he is still passionately committed to getting new musicals on stage.
By Samuel Hughes
Coming Home
Adrift in the great sea of university life, the author found an academic anchor—and much more—studying the history and sociology of science.
By Beth Kephart
The Big Picture
David Koerner, a Penn astronomer and accomplished pianist, probes the universe for clues about how prevalent planetary systems, and life itself, may be.
By Susan Lonkevich
“Tweaked, Not Trendy”
That’s how architect Wendy Evans Joseph describes her work—which has ranged from a dramatic pedestrian bridge across a busy street a the edge of New York’s East River to the conversion of a one-time opera house/cattle auction yard in Dallas into a Women’s Museum.
By Virginia Fairweather
Departments
From the Editor
Star Power.
Letters
Questioning bilingual education, feeling left out, Perelman Quad complaint.
Notes From the Undergrad
Secrets of a Washington intern.
Alumni Voices
Stream—river—of consciousness.
Gazetteer
MacDiarmid wins chemistry Nobel
With P2B, Penn launches high-tech incubator
Ribbon-cutting and rock at Perelman Quad
Kafkaesque Convocation for the Class of 2004
Penn #6 in U.S. News; Wharton #1 in Business Week
Flood of discoveries in Black Sea
Welfare reform’s reverse dependency
Lawsuit filed in Gelsinger death … Settlement follows
Wistar polio-vaccine not cause of AIDS
When patients’ rights and religious restrictions collide
Settlement in Medicare fraud case
$18 million grant toward new Vet School building
Treatment interruptions may boost immune response
Off the Shelf
Whistle-blower’s reward: jail time. Rats in the Grain.
Penn and the prize. Prize Stories 2000: The O’Henry Awards.
Plus |Ruth Browning Malloy Ed’30 celebrates her 90th birthday. Finally.
Sports
Make it three for men’s basketball?
Alumni Profiles
Marc Steren L’96 | Paper Tickets? How Pass´é
Rob Redei C’97 | A Japanese-American Legend Set to Song
Dr. Deidrè Farmbry GrEd’97 | Still Crazy—About Education—After All These Years
Michael Feinberg C’91 | KIPP-KIPP Hurray
Jon Gailmor C’70 | Odes to “Perpetual Childishness”
Dr. Steven Brodsky C’82 | When Disease Masks As Devotion
Dr. Zahi Hawass G’83 Gr’87 | The Color of Mummy
Alumni Notes
Comings, goings, appointments, promotions, accolades
and other personal news
Pennsylmania
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