The Poetics of Giving
Thinking outside the gift box at Writers House
A Better Endowment Return
Endowment grows 20.2 percent to $6.6 billion
The Reign of Hodges Begins at the Penn Museum
Richard Hodges named Penn Museum director
Best Class Ever—For Now
Freshman Convocation: 45 months and a lifetime
Findings
Findings
$20 Million Gift for Nanotech
Krishna Singh GME’69 Gr’72 gives $20 million for nanotech
Promise of Spring?
Basketball preview
Youth, Interrupted
The Adolescent Mental Health Initiative is a major, Penn-led effort to address what one expert calls the “chronic diseases of the young.”
The Ethnologist Sets Out
William Curtis Farabee conducted pioneering studies of the Amazon for the Penn Museum in the early part of the 20th century. His journals and notebooks offer extraordinary glimpses of the area’s indigenous peoples, and the artifacts he brought back offer an unmatched—and still largely unexamined—treasure-trove of cultural materials.
Web, Take Two
The ranger of a virtual dog park, an Internet entrepreneur-turned-venture capitalist, a story scout, a “fake engineer,” and a word-of-mouth marketer are among the Penn players in a movement known (by some) as Web 2.0.
Beyond Gun Control
Guns aren’t going away, so how can we live with them more safely?
The Summer Anti-Internship
New award lets entrepreneurs take care of business all summer long
Wharton Names New Dean
Arrivals & departures at Wharton, admissions, and alumni relations
From French Fries to Fuel
“You’re burning it anyway—might as well run your cars on it”
Mock Stocks Lead to Real Gains
Mock-stock portfolio earns real money
Graduate Students Unite
Grad-student governments merge
“Gray Lady” Goes Digital
Changing Times
Research Briefs
Research briefs
Wanted: Kicking Game
Football preview
A Perfect Day
Commencement: Baker on beer—and leadership.
Honorary Degrees
2007 Honorands
Martin Meyerson Dies
President Emeritus Martin Meyerson Hon’70 dies.
Reading More Than Menus
Incoming freshmen to read Omnivore’s Dilemma.
The Music of Writing
Roseanne Cash at the Writers House