Out of the Engineering Lab and into the Village
Engineering students volunteer for water project in Honduras
Opening Tip-off: Action!
Documentary celebrates Penn’s Palestra
One Week at a Time
Football looks to regain its footing
Alumni Weekend 2006
Alumni Weekend 2006
Something about Barbaro
After the Kentucky Derby winner’s shocking injury in the second leg of the Triple Crown, his owners—alumni Roy and Gretchen Jackson—turned to Penn’s New Bolton Center to save their beloved horse’s life.
Foster to Grads: “This is [your] story now.”
Inspiration from Ben and Emimem at 250th Commencement
First PIK
First Penn Integrates Knowledge professor appointed
GSE Dean to Head Columbia Teacher’s College
GSE Dean named president of Columbia Teachers College
Thanks, but No Thanks: HUP Nixes Pharma Gifts
No more gifts from pharma reps allowed at HUP
Tough Love for Junk Food Families
My Big Fat Reality Show: Penn nutritionist uses TV to fight obesity
Dorm Makeovers to Enhance Inner Beauty
High-rise infrastructure improvements to cost $106.5 million
Black, Brown, and Underpaid
Massey: Don’t blame illegals for African Americans’ plight
TV Room Tranquility, Revolutionary Robotics, Sweeter Swings
PennVention, Wharton competitions award cash for creativity
Research in Brief
Research in Brief
After Dunphy, It’s Miller’s Time
Brown’s Miller to succeed Dunphy
Mitt Man
Albert “Doc” Bushong D1882
The House that Writers Built
The Kelly Writers House celebrates 10 years as an experimental learning community and literary “sandbox.”
The Reverse Engineer
Forget nature versus nurture. From cooperation to social stigma, morality to mating, evolutionary adaptation is the key to understanding human behavior, says Penn psychologist Robert Kurzban.
“Heaven is a Mixed Neighborhood”
In this excerpt from his new book, Metropolitan Philadelphia, the author describes “the closest thing I have known to a peaceable kingdom.”
Passion Plays
After a long string of smash hits and artistic triumphs in film, Marc Platt C’79 is back with his first love—theater—with the Broadway phenomenon Wicked.
Understanding Pashto
Benedicte Grima Santry spent years in the remote reaches of Afghanistan and Pakistan. What she learned—and now teaches—is invaluable, especially in the wake of 9/11.
Quiet Goes the Don
The late Alan Halpern was more than just a brilliant, groundbreaking editor.
Continental Drift
In his latest work, an atlas of North American English, Penn sociolinguist Bill Labov shows that we are talking more differently from one another.
Ben Ed
Library exhibit traces Franklin’s educational ideas