Volume 108, No. 2
Features
Are Better Brains Better?
Penn neuroscientists Martha Farah and Anjan Chatterjee believe the answer is more complicated than you think. By Trey Popp
Darwinism Comes to Penn
A century-and-a-half after the publication of On the Origin of Species, a Penn microbiologist looks back at how Darwin’s ideas were received by some of the University’s leading thinkers. By Howard Goldfine
“Red and Blue Makes Green”
The University’s new Climate Action Plan is good for the environment—and won’t hurt Penn’s bottom line, either. By John Prendergast
The Justice Who Was of Two Minds
Appointed to the Supreme Court for his crusading prosecution of the Teapot Dome scandal in the 1920s, Owen Roberts went from New Deal obstructionist to enabler after Roosevelt threatened to “pack” the court. Was the alumnus and future Law School dean merely expedient, or a statesman who put country before consistency? By Dennis Drabelle
Departments
ESSAYS : First Person
Alumni Voices Two old souls
Elsewhere A (tiny) pot to piss in
Expert Opinion Yawn!
GAZETTEER : News & Sports
Blame smoking, not system, for Americans’ poor health outcomes
New social work program focuses on needs of aging
Class of 2013 makes some noise at Convocation
Unintended consequences kill in Mexican drug war
All about Abydos at the Penn Museum
Peter Conn on the not-so-“red decade”
Stimulus funds support student research
“People generally die the way they live”
Findings
What do women have against happiness?
The return of Jerome Allen C’95
Football hampered by injuries
Your piece of the Palestra?
ALL THINGS ORNAMENTAL : The Arts
EXHIBIT Healing art at the Perelman Center
MUSIC Big Sleep-er Sonya Balchandani C’98
BOOKS With the Underground. White Light/White Heat
MUSIC Violinist Ann Fontanella LPS’11
BRIEFLY NOTED
ARTS CALENDAR
ALUMNI : Profiles
Marie Savard Nu’70 GrNu’72 M’76 answers your health questions
Digital-image pioneer George E. Smith C’55 shares Nobel Prize
Scrap Kins creator Brian Yanish C’95 makes recycling fun
Jonathan Grabelle Herrmann W’00 runs “Campus Philly”
AKA Argument Man: Debate Team director Douglas Robbins L’01
Philanthropist Henry Baron W’41 helps children with challenges
Fitness guru Gina Lombardi DH’83 takes no excuses
Events
Notes
Obituaries