Keeping Faith
Bloodied but unbowed by his stint as George W. Bush’s first “faith czar,” alumnus and political science professor John. J. DiIulio is more convinced than ever of America’s faith-based future—and he has a new book that tells why.
Ghost Landscapes
Arthur Drooker’s infrared photographs of historic ruins in the U.S. conjure a “spirit world of haunted beauty.”
Reclaiming a Riverfront
Delaware Waterfront plan announced
“Little Ben” Finishes Fourth
Pretty big finish for “Little Ben”
The Wrath of Herzog
Herzog on cinema studies: “Abolish these courses”
Blame It On My Genes, Your Honor
The DNA Defense?
Economics Professor Pleads Guilty and Resigns
Former econ prof pleads guilty to manslaughter
Huntsman Program Senior Wins Rhodes Scholarship
Rhodes Scholar Joyce Meng
Alumnus Nets Marshall
A Marshall for Steve Danley
The Sculptor’s Ark
Richard Serra’s menagerie
Haute Kicks
Student uses sneakers as canvases
$70 Million Design Package for Engineering
Engineering awarded $70 million gift-in-kind
Blogging Against the Machine
Blogger Juan Cole on tenure’s coming collapse
$10 Million Gift for Community Partnerships
Penn’s Center for Community Partnerships has been channeling the University’s expertise and manpower toward West Philadelphia’s urban challenges since 1992.
Findings
Research in Brief
Summit Psychology
Women’s soccer Ivy champs
Home Court Advantage
Ed Stefanski W’76
Seizing the Moment
The University’s top leaders promise that Penn’s $3.5 billion fundraising campaign will make history—by changing the face of Penn’s campus and extending its local and global impact, strengthening financial aid and faculty support, and pointing a new multidisciplinary direction in higher education. With $1.6 billion already committed, donors seem to be listening.
Prisoners, Poems, and Principles
Why is attorney Marc Falkoff representing detainees at Guantánamo Bay and publishing a book of their poetry?
Digital Natives in Tomorrow’s Classroom
Today's Web-washed, text-messaging, technology-tethered undergraduates don't learn the way even their recent forebears did. Meanwhile, professors in the School of Engineering want to make them masters of technologies yet to be invented. When the two sides meet in the classroom, all the rules have changed.
Diagnosing Health Care
Four Penn scholars examine U.S. health care—and its political future.
East Campus Rising
Cira Center South to replace Eastern eyesore
Off-Campus, Close By
New housing options (just) off-campus
New Alumni Relations AVP: “It’s All About the Relationships”
Alumni Relations AVP Hoopes Wampler