News and Features

The Double Shift: Managing Careers and Families

01 Jan 2004

Skidding off the fast track?

A Woman’s Place—in the Academy

01 Jan 2004

Panel looks at women in academe

Written in Stone

01 Jan 2004

Penn women’s history chronicled in stone

A Place for Community—and Kosher Dining

01 Jan 2004

Steinhardt Hall is Hillel’s new home on campus

The Input Bias: When Quantity Trumps Quality

01 Jan 2004

More means better, right?

Opiates Without Rx —A Prescription for Trouble

01 Jan 2004

Drug pushers go digital

A New Chapter for English Department’s Home

01 Jan 2004

$16.4 million approved for Bennett Hall renovations

Wetland Restored: Wildlife Approve

01 Jan 2004

Restoring a wetland at Morris Arboretum

Homework: Head Start

01 Jan 2004

GSE to design Head Start curriculum

Revitalize, Take the Prize

01 Jan 2004

Revitalization projects recognized

Undefeated!

01 Jan 2004

Champions in football and volleyball

What Happens to the Mail

01 Jan 2004

“A reader of other people’s mail wants a challenge”

The House That Joe Built

02 Nov 2003

The new National Constitution Center is billed as a museum of ideas rather than artifacts—but it might have remained just an idea if not for alumnus Joe Torsella.

The University as Discourse Community

02 Nov 2003

In this essay from the book, Public Discourse in America, Penn’s president lays out a vision of universities as “exemplars of a new kind of thoughtful civic engagement and robust public discourse.”

A Passion for Putting Things Together

02 Nov 2003

Design alumni Stephen Kieran and James Timberlake, the architects for the new Melvin J. and Claire Levine Hall on Penn's campus, are on a mission to "refabricate" their profession.

Diagnosed with an aggressive form of leukemia, alumna Ruthie Spector faced long odds but was saved by an experimental drug treatment that made a bone marrow transplant possible. The donor drive organized in her behalf will save many more lives in the years to come.