Hoops for Life
Dave Wohl C’71 hasn’t had to get a “real job” yet
Journey to Estonia
Louis Kahn Ar’24 Hon’71 left Estonia as a little boy in 1906. A century later, some members of the great architect’s “family through choice” went back to explore his tangled roots and legacy.
The Radical and the Restorer
As the international blockbuster King Tut exhibition comes to Philadelphia’s Franklin Institute, the Penn Museum has unveiled an eye-opening companion show on the radical religious and political experiment imposed by the boy-king’s predecessor (and putative father), the Pharoah Akhenaten.
Homecoming 2006
2006 featured the Game (a tough loss to Princeton, unfortunately), the Awards of Merit Gala, and the finale of a year-long commemoration of the 125th anniversary of the University’s first African-American graduate, James Brister D1881.
Penn Praxis Tapped for Delaware Waterfront Project
City asks Penn Praxis to advise on waterfront’s future
Engineering’s Rough-Hewn, High-Tech Castle
Skirkanich Hall, bioengineering beauty
Harker Leaves Wharton for Delaware Presidency
Wharton Dean Harker named University of Delaware president
Turning Andean Silver into Green
Wharton helps silver artisans in Peru shape greater profits
Research Briefs
Benefits of Neighborhood Cleanup Go Beyond Beauty; Now It’s Matter, Now It’s Not; Stretch Nerves After They Snap
What’s Behind a New Wave of Crime?
Symposium analyzes Philadelphia’s rise in violence
Roberts Family Gives $15 Million for Proton Therapy Center
Brian and Ralph Roberts give $15 million for proton-therapy center
Leventhal Out as Museum Director
Leventhal steps down as Penn Museum director
Franklin and the Iroquois Foundations of the Constitution
What the Founders learned from those who were here first
Basketball’s New Era, and a Football Season Best Forgotten
Basketball springs forward, football falls flat.
Music Lessons
Carol Muller’s ethnomusicology class partners with a West Philadelphia Islamic school to explore the sounds of the Qur’an, and each other’s communities.
Lowering the Temperature
The threat of terrorism is real, but America’s response to it is dangerously counterproductive, writes Penn political-science professor Ian Lustick in this excerpt from his new book, Trapped in the War on Terror.
Law Made Plain
Though it pushes plenty of hot buttons in the issues it takes up for debate—domestic spying, torture, criminal sentencing for juveniles, and immigration reform, to name just a few—for close to a decade the Annenberg Public Policy Center’s Justice Talking program has functioned as the opposite of “shout” radio.
Workers of the World, Adapt!
After 30 years in the trenches, Andy Stern has become the labor movement’s rising star. But can he change unions fast enough to save them?
Early Admissions: Whose Advantage?
Penn will maintain Early Decision program in admissions
Connecting Mind and Spirit
New center explores mind, spirituality, and health
Nice Catch
Wharton junior hauls in a big catch: $1.5 million
Introducing the “Passionately Intense” Class of 2010
A rainy welcome for the “passionately intense” Class of 2010
Penn Seventh in U.S. News Rankings
U.S. News and other rankings
Marketing Professor Will No Longer Teach Following Arrest
Emeritus professor Scott Ward charged in child porn case