News and Features

Penn to Launch Genomics Institute

01 May 2001

Genomics Institute launched

Sweet Smell of Success

01 May 2001

David Sedaris on the joys of housecleaning.

Rising From the Ashes, A First Home for Fine Arts

01 May 2001

A home for fine arts in Addams Hall

Jews and Modernity: Fragments and Shifting Notions

01 May 2001

“Jews & Modernity” at the Arthur Ross Gallery

Understanding Election 2000

01 May 2001

Election 2000, disputed (surprise)

Women at Penn: The First 125 Years

01 May 2001

Marking 125 years of women at Penn.

Street Picks Rodin to Head New Economy Board

01 May 2001

Rodin to head Philadelphia New Economy board

Williams Gives $16 Million to University Museum

01 May 2001

Cool $16 million for University Museum climate-control.

Breaking Ground in Education

01 May 2001

Ground broken for Penn-assisted public school.

New Champions in Basketball

01 May 2001

This year, it was the women’s turn to bring the Ivy title to Penn.

Blood Feuds

02 Mar 2001

A recent symposium at Penn probed the causes, symptoms and solutions of ethnic warfare.

Established in 1892 as a museum for anatomic specimens as well as a center for the "increase of original scientific knowledge," the Wistar Institute today is at the forefront of basic research on cancer, AIDS and other diseases.

New Faces

02 Mar 2001

Department of Fine Arts Graduate Faculty.

“No Other Life”

02 Mar 2001

The Mourning of Mario Lanza, Chubby Checker's twisting rise and fall, a race riot in North Philadelphia and the Phillies' 1964 "nervous breakdown." Memories of a boyhood in the city.