Obituaries
Jan|Feb 2005
A Marriage “Meant to Be”
Amy Gutmann’s inauguration as the University’s eighth president featured a day of community service, a concert on Hill Field, and a wide-ranging symposium, among other events. In her inaugural speech the president called for a new “Penn Compact.”
Homecoming 2004
Photos from the game. Plus: Alumni Award of Merit Citations.
Taste Quakers
“Everyone who graduated from Penn is either a doctor, a lawyer or … a food writer, it seems.” Well, not quite, but this alumna soon found she wasn’t the only one—food writer, that is.
Strange Labyrinth
Behind the gift to Penn’s library of a very rare 17th-century book lies the moving story of an alumna scholar’s groundbreaking research and untimely death.
Summons to an Academic Adventure
Gutmann to new students: Move to Penn “major upgrade”
Administrative Posts Filled
Craig Carnaroli named EVP
A Vote for Fairness
Should people with dementia be allowed to vote?
A Fresh Start
Rodin to head Rockefeller Foundation
Counting Sheep in Space
Sleeping in space
One of the Fab Four
U.S. News & World Report ranks Penn fourth
A Winning Combination: Management and Technology
M&T program at 25
Kiss a Frog, Kill Germs?
Frog skin fights bacteria
Hospitality, Latin Style
La Casa Latina at five
It’s Official: No Grad Union
NLRB rules against union in Penn case
Extreme Makeover
Second high-rise renovation completed
Monumental Task
Rybczynski named to Commission of Fine Arts
Bad Snap: Streak Ends at 17
Football win streak broken at 17
“This is Where I Belong”
Dunphy stays at Penn
Homage to a Cathedral of Hoops
Palestra praiser Mikaelyn Austin
Learning and Leading
Since her nomination to become the University’s eighth president last winter, Amy Gutmann has spent a lot of time quietly thinking and talking with people about how to move Penn forward. Now she’s eager to get to work.
Signature Style
As he heads West for a teaching position in the other Washington, Paul Steven Miller C’83 looks back on a decade defending the rights of people with disabilities as an EEOC Commissioner—and a lifetime battling for his own.
Hard Questions, Uneasy Answers
Reflecting on his recent experience in Kurdistan, Brendan O'Leary, a leading scholar of ethnopolitical conflict, ponders Iraq’s future.