Live, from Franklin Field …
Advice to graduates: “Risk it”
Standouts in Track, Tennis, and Rugby
Fast and patient wins the race.
A Major League Road Trip
Brian Bolten W’96
Finals
“Listen, Worm …”
Reburying the Past
Remains found at construction site to be reburied
$10 Million for Bioengineering
Peter and Geri Skirkanich give $10 million toward new bioengineering facility
Lessons to be Learned
Goodwin on leadership (not plagiarism)
Probing Plagiarism
Childers and other history faculty on plagiarism in the field
Trust and Chance Lead to $100 Million Gift for Penn Medicine
$100 million for Penn Medicine from Philadelphia Health Care Trust
Speed-Reading the Book of Life
J. Craig Venter recaps the race to map the human genome
Bridging the Regeneration Gap in Spinal-Cord Injuries
Preventing scarring may help in healing spinal-cord injuries
An Internet “Grandfather” on its Past, Present, Future
David Farber on what’s next for the Internet
Now Sitting in the Owners’ Box: Fans?
Student Life: “Goof” or “great idea?” Senior leads effort to buy the Montreal Expos
Out of the Frying Pan …
Executive VP John Fry named Franklin & Marshall president
Learning and Labor
Graduate-student group attempting to unionize
Winners and Winningest
Late run secures Ivy basketball title and puts Dunphy in the record books.
The Century in Sports
Whether the cry from Quaker fans has been "Hurrah!" or "Help!" the Gazette has been there to record the wins, the losses, and the would/could/should have beens.
World War and Cold War: 1941-1960
Our third Centennial timeline: 1941-1960.
Bob Bigelow’s Full Court Press
The former Penn men's basketball standout and NBA journeyman knows what's wrong with organized youth sports in this country and has made a career out of delivering the news to the perpetrators of the crime: Parents.
First Visit, Last Farewell
In this excerpt from her new memoir about her “multicultural marriage,” the author writes of her son’s first trip to his father’s country of El Salvador and the death of a family patriarch.
Zahi Hawass and the Secrets of the Pyramids
Archaeology’s answer to Carl Sagan has generated unprecedented interest in Egypt’s past and believes that science and history can “create love between countries.” In a world of increasing tensions, he says that mission is more important than ever.
Making the Most of the Material Past
A stint as a “trainee mortician” set Penn English Professor Peter Stallybrass on the path to scholarship. These days, he prowls old bookstores and library stacks in search of the objects that make the past come to life.
The Big Picture
Muralist Jane Golden brings her vision of art as a medium for social change to Penn—and to one wall in the Mantua neighborhood north of campus.
The Boy Chemist at 75
Well over a half-century and one Nobel Prize later, Penn Professor Alan G. MacDiarmid still possesses—and communicates to students—the energy and enthusiasm of a 10-year old with his first chemistry book.