A Dog’s Life (Gourmet Division)
Fine dining for Fido. The Culinary Canine
Penn Perspectives on the 99 Percent
Penn faculty talk about what lies behind the Occupy phenomenon, what may lie ahead, and what the recent spate of protests across the political spectrum portends for the republic.
Stop-Motion Jackpot
Dan Markowitz EAS’11
The Spirit of Caring
They don’t diagnose illnesses, prescribe drugs, perform medical procedures, or suggest treatment options, but chaplains and other pastoral care staff are a key part of the medical team at Penn’s hospitals.
Center of the Graduate Universe
Grad Student Center marks 10 years of “creating graduate community”
Brave New Voices
A concert of vocal works by young composers, many of them Penn graduate students, shakes up the classical scene.
Resolution Revolution
“Chaz” Howard C’00
The Other Health Care Revolutions
The Affordable Care Act may have gotten all the attention, but American medicine will be transformed even more profoundly by forces that neither the government, insurance companies, nor even doctors themselves can fully tame. It’s already happening, and three trends provide a preview of the shape of things to come.
The Scene of my Defection
Revisiting the great Indian city where, 30 years ago, I came out of the Soviet cocoon.
Short-Order Entrepreneur
Nate Adler C’11 has an appetite for entrepreneurship
Findings
Follow the Leader and SpongeBob SugarPusher
It’s a Mom, Mom, Mom, Mom Online World
Tina Sharkey C’86
Surprises Are Always the Best
Like her four previous books, Jennifer Egan C’85’s A Visit from the Goon Squad received generally stellar reviews. But it didn’t look like this resistant-to-summary novel-in-stories would catch on with the public—that is, until she won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
Artist with a Syringe
Artist and cosmetic-surgeon Eric Finzi C’77.
Journalism, Jews, and Jeffrey Goldberg
College alumnus Jeffrey Goldberg’s reporting from the Middle East has garnered a slew of awards and an invitation to come and chat with Fidel Castro. Just don’t tell his kids he dropped out of Penn.
Tour of Duty
Four decades after Vietnam, a former soldier mounts a different mission.
Routes of Reform
From the Editor: Jan|Feb 2011
PENN 2.0
The University is now active on all manner of social networks—and students, faculty, and staff members are even inventing new ones of their own.
After WikiLeaks
Overreaction could do more damage than anything revealed
in the leaked diplomatic cables.
Jailbreak
“I thought back to my college biology class, but nothing came to mind.”