A Writer by Any Other Gender
Feminist Toril Moi on not being a “woman writer.”
Marketing Professor Pleads Guilty
Ward pleads guilty to child pornography charges.
Baker to Speak at Commencement
James Baker to speak at Commencement.
The Best Inventions That Don’t Exist
Innovation for the rest of us: “2nd Best Idea Slam.”
And the Winning Prototype Is …
Parachuting robot snares annual PennVention prize.
Champions
B-baller turned blogger Steve Danley; wrestler Valenti champion again.
Prognosis Botswana
Penn doctors, nurses, and scholars are collaborating with their counterparts in Botswana to try to change the course of HIV/AIDS (and health care itself) in one of the countries hit hardest by the disease.
Arnold Eisen’s Moment
With his appointment as chancellor of New York’s Jewish Theological Seminary, the noted religious-studies scholar—and one time Gazette student columnist and assistant to former Penn President Martin Meyerson—is only the second non-rabbi to serve as the symbolic head of American Judaism’s Conservative movement.
The Wife, the Lady, and the Book of Dames
When an English professor set out to create an animated opera based on “The Wife of Bath’s Tale,” she decided to bring in some very un-Chaucerian characters. That’s when the real fun began.
Barbaro’s Race Ends
Barbaro’s last days
Nobel-Winner MacDiarmid Dies
Nobel-prize chemist Alan MacDiarmid dies at 79
Martin Luther King Day 2007
Campus honors MLK’s legacy
Exit Alig
Alig resigns as alumni-relations AVP
Research Briefs
Attacking HIV with a (Modified) V; Found in Translation: Cholesterol-Cutting Drug; Bending DNA No Problem at Nano-Scale
Bringing Penn’s Treasures Back Home
Display highlights Penn treasures—and collector who found them.
Economics Professor on Trial
Economics professor charged with murder
The Logic of Torture
Heard on campus: Peter Singer on torture
Smokeless Smoke’s?
Smokeless Joe’s
Unlearning to Talk: Q&A with Charles Yang
How children learn language; or, why wuckoo?
Civic Scholars: A “Galvanizing” Program
New four-year program combines service and scholarship
Where’s That Other Eakins Clinic Again?
Whatever happened to Penn’s Eakins masterpiece?
On the Road Again
Kelly Writers House celebrates Kerouac classic
But Where Do They Go to Sleep?
No kitchen-sink studies? College Houses offer everything but
A Game to Remember
Foul shots down Owls in Dunphy’s return