Clinical Trials Put on Hold at Gene-Therapy Lab
FDA suspends gene-therapy research
The Women of Winter
Women's squash and basketball score firsts.
Silk Across the Sands
A rare exhibition of artifacts from Uzbekistan at the Arthur Ross Gallery offers a tantalizing glimpse of the cultures along the Silk Road. So did a symposium at the University Museum.
The World According to Gieg
Earth and Environmental Science Professor Bob Giegengack has fulfilled a boyhood dream of visiting exotic locales from the Sahara to the Antarctic and has earned the admiration and affection of a generation of students. He cautions today's young academics not to follow in his footsteps.
Admission Denied
Naomi Nakano had already experienced discrimination at Penn when she was restricted to the basement of Houston Hall because she was a woman—then she found herself at the center of a storm of protest over the University’s wartime policy of excluding Japanese Americans from admission.
Rebirth on the River
When the Fairmount Water Works was born in the 19th century, its cutting-edge technology and pleasing gardens drew hordes of tourists. Penn alumni working on a $26 million restoration and environmental-education project at the site hope to create a new life for this half-forgotten landmark that helped a city grow.
Homecoming 1999
Homecoming 1999
And Then There Were Two …
Hamilton Village architects’ designs
Bakers Give $11 Million
$11 million for Baker Forum and financial aid
Glandt Takes Over at SEAS
Glandt named SEAS dean
Study to Examine Minority Performance in the Academy
Study to assess minorities’ academic performance
Clarence Darrow Gets High Nielsen Rating
Leslie Nielsen on actors and lawyers
Color Blinders
Derrick Bell asks: who benefits from black success?
Gene-Therapy Researchers Probe Patient’s Death
First findings in gene-therapy death
Fighting Shadows with FIRE
FIRE’s fight for the right
Strong Medicine: Health System Cuts 1,700 After Record Deficit
UPHS cuts workforce by 20 percent to reverse losses
From Spoiler to Champion?
Women’s basketball ranked first in Ivies.
Award of Merit Recipients
Homecoming 1999
Crowns and Confidences
Thomas Evans was the trusted friend of royalty and a secret diplomat with an eye for beauty. Such are the rewards of dentistry.
Setting the Record Straight
An Interview with Elijah Anderson
High Noon in the ‘hood
Penn sociologist Elijah Anderson writes about life at "ground zero," in the inner city's most blighted areas. In this excerpt from his new book, a reformed drug-dealer turned small-businessman attempts to take back a neighborhood corner from his successor in the drug trade.
From Zip to X
How would-be experimental physicist became a cyber-mogul instead.
Justice in the Bones
When a 15-year-old Philadelphia boy was wrongly accused of rape in a case of mistaken identity, public defender Glenn Gilman C’69 and two Penn anthropologists, Dr. Alan Mann and Dr. Janet Monge Gr’80, combined their expertise to ensure that justice was served.
Researchers Seek Answers After Gene-Therapy Patient Dies
Patient in gene-therapy trial dies