The Yankee’s Secret Weapon
Frank Dolson, C '54
Martin Seligman’s Journey From Learned Helplessness to Learned Happiness
The renowned Penn professor of psychology has refocused the field toward the encouragement of mental health, launched an investigation into the causes and prevention of ethnopolitical warfare—and vowed to stop being such a grouch.
Homecoming 1998
Slideshow | Photography by Tommy Leonardi C'89
Taking On the Tobacco Giants
Bill Novelli has peddled soap, advertised pet food, and even promoted a presidential election campaign. He's now involved in the toughest marketing job of his career—keeping kids away from cigarettes.
Before & After
A five-year conservation program is restoring Penn's extensive—and long-neglected—collection of bronze outdoor sculptures to their former glory "to be seen, enjoyed, and inspire anew."
Making Waves
A conference marking the 25th anniversary of Penn's women's studies program brought together faculty, students, and leaders in the field to surf the past 3.5 waves of feminism and debate the turbulent currents ahead.
Close Quarters
Good fence wanted in history department?
Three Days of Hope
Keeping faith with the cities
Barchi Chosen as Provost
Barchi is new provost
Building Up Undergraduate Residences
New views of campus
Annenberg Survey: “Negative” Is Not a Four-Letter Word
Negative ads not all bad.
From Civic Center to Cancer Center
Penn and CHOP to get part of Civic Center site
Trim the Fat, Not the Bone
Managing managed care
Physician, Heal (But Don’t Medicate) Thyself
A fool for a patient?
These Championship Seasons?
Football tops the Ivies; men's basketball shocks Temple.
Internet Tour-Guide
Andrew Gold, C'94
Obituaries
Jan|Feb 1999
The Stock Market Sage
When he was a kid, Wharton finance professor Jeremy Siegel liked to chart the growth of morning glories in his back yard; now he directs his keen attention to the rise and fall of the stock market.
The Flu of 1918
It started with a cough in the summer of 1918. In the next 120 days, nearly 22 million people around the world would die in one of the worst epidemics in modern times. And Philadelphia was to be the American city with the highest death toll.
Through a Glass Darkly
Stephen Glass's glittering career in journalism took off at The Daily Pennsylvanian and crash-landed when he was discovered to have fabricated dozens of articles for national magazines. Did this talent for invention color his work at Penn?
The Bible’s People
A new permanent exhibit at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology draws on artifacts from excavations spanning much of the century to reveal the daily lives of the Bronze and Iron age inhabitants of Canaan and ancient Israel.
Constitutionalist in Cyberspace
In the decade and a half since he graduated from Penn, legal scholar and internet enthusiast Lawrence Lessig has emerged as a leading thinker in the application of Constitutional concepts to the realm of cyberspace—and gotten Bill Gates (among others) mad at him.
Penn Football: 1968 & 1998
Back to football camp, 30 years later.
Sundance Rises in the West
Movie theater announced for 40th Street