Hall of Fame’s Second Class is First-Rate
Hall of Fame, Class II
The Year That Just Was
Titles in wrestling, women’s gymnastics, and golf.
Proof & Beauty
What do you get when you add a couple of math professors, a Roman Catholic nun, and a computer? Not the start of a bad joke, but a major breakthrough in mathematics -- and a pretty one, too.
Start Me Up
The letters P.O.V. were once synonymous with I.O.U. Today the fledgling men's magazine, co-founded by a Penn alumnus working off his laptop, has multimillion-dollar backing, an office equipped with its own bar, and a new nightlife supplement called Egg.
Coal Miners’ Doctor
Forty years ago, a freshly-minted M.D. learned about life and death -- and how to drink home-brewed beer and (almost) eat squirrel's brains -- while practicing medicine in the hills of eastern Kentucky.
Reflections of a Couple of Book Prize Judges
An insider's view of the passions, politics, and personalities involved in, well, singling out literary merit.
Upping the Ante on Student Aid
Can Penn compete?
Tuition Up a Little; Applications Up a Lot
Class of 2002: Better than ever (again).
Throwing the Book at Dangerous Art
Book lovers beware?
No Parasol? Slather on the PARSOL
Safer sunblocks on the way
Deconstructing the Constitution In Support of the Arts
Garry Wills on support for the arts
Go West (Philly), Young Family
New incentives for home ownership
Alternative Medicine Moves Toward the Mainstream
Investigating the role of alternative medicine
Homage to a Visionary
Celebrating Strausz-Hupé
Throwing for the Distance
New women's records in the shot put and discus.
Dear Doc Schelling
The original copies of the following letters, written by Ezra Pound to Felix Schelling and other people at Penn over a 20-year period, are in the special-collections department of Van Pelt Library. No attempts have been made to correct Pound's idiosyncratic spelling and grammar.
Moderns in the Quad
Two legendary poets formed friendship at Penn that would change the course of American Poetry.
Not the Alumni Notes
Underachievers, take heart! Alumni news for the rest of us.
A River of Words
How a New Yorker essay helped save a river from destruction -- and one Penn alumnus from a career in law.
Reflections on the Roman World
The curator of a show of Roman glass now at the University Museum tells how the ancient glassworking industry reveals as much about the Romans as their architecture, thirst for conquest, or tendency to murder their emperors.
Have You Heard the One About the Traveling Book-Salesman?
Sample books cast light on 19th-century bookselling
A Wheelchair for All Seasons
All-terrain wheelchair prototyped
Shooting Leaves One Dead and a Penn Student Injured
Student wounded by stray bullet
Twelve Months of Penn Men
Penn men for every month