Fruits and Fate
Research has shown that a woman’s body shape—whether she is round in the middle like an apple or wider at the bottom like a pear—is the single best predictor of health risks. Dr. Marie Savard wants to get this message out to all women, so that “pears” can give themselves a break from pointless dieting and “apples” can save their own lives.
Gray is Good
From social security to sex, AARP’s Bill Novelli is working to make aging safe—and cool—for the baby-boom generation and the rest of us.
Putting the Carriage Before Marriage
Sociologist Kathryn Edin on poor women’s choices
Combatants, Collaborators and Competitors: Word and Image
Humanities Forum to examine Word and Image
Big Bucks for Research, High Marks for Health
Honors for Penn Medicine
Fine ’09 Meets Online
Freshmen orient themselves online
A Balloon With a View
BLAST-Off: Balloon-borne astronomy
Evaluating Policy—from the Chalkboard to the School Board
CPRE marks 20 years of education research
Drop and Give Me 20 … Pages!
Dissertation “boot camp” turns slackers into scholars
Mapping The Philadelphia Negro
GIS technology enriches DuBois’ Philadelphia Negro
Research in Brief
Research briefs
What’s in a Name?
New name: School of Social Policy and Practice
Looking for Good Things in Small Packages
Center for Molecular Discovery
Entertaining—and Enlightening—with Faulkner
A Faulkner scholar in “Oprah’s Classroom”
A New Roadmap for Learning
Curriculum revision approved for College
Football’s Feel-Good Story
Football: Favorites by a hair
Being Jim Finn
Jim Finn, NFL survivor
Expect to Hear Music
Penn’s music department, known for top-quality scholarship and world-class composers, has gotten over its long case of performance anxiety.
LEAPP of Faith
A new program at the School of Medicine is betting that matching students with chronically ill patients, who they then follow throughout their four-year curriculum, will help them to become better doctors.
Alumni Weekend 2005
Slideshow
Insuring Against Terror
Since 9/11, Howard Kunreuther and his colleagues at the Wharton School’s Center for Risk Management and Decision Processes have been examining the thorny issue of how to protect society from the economic effects of the next terrorist attack.
“Your Future Depends on Their Future”
Commencement 2005 | Annan: “The cause of larger freedom should be your cause”
Doing Well By Doing Good
Grads pledge to do good in chosen work
Q&A with Penn’s Provost
Q&A with new Provost Ronald Daniels