Building Bridges with Art
The Foundation community arts initiative.
Alumni Notes
Mar|Apr 2000
High Noon in the ‘hood
Penn sociologist Elijah Anderson writes about life at "ground zero," in the inner city's most blighted areas. In this excerpt from his new book, a reformed drug-dealer turned small-businessman attempts to take back a neighborhood corner from his successor in the drug trade.
Alumni Notes
Nov|Dec 1999
Treasures & Travesties
Two experts on Penn's architecture talk about the evolution of its West Philadelphia campus—the delights, the dinosaurs and the duds.
Letters
Sep|Oct 1999: Advice for the Phils, wrong turn in the Crimea.
A Mush With Greatness
Aliy Zirkle C’92
Alumni Notes
Sep|Oct 1999
The Vision Thing
As the National Science Foundation's new director of Computer and Information Science and Engineering, Dr. Ruzena Bacsjy—a Penn computer-science professor noted for her work on robotic perception—must get Congress to see its way to creating greater support for basic research in information technology.
Travels with Tarzan: A Documentary Odyssey
Two filmmakers went on the road with a family-owned circus and found enough human drama outside the ring to rival the snarling tigers, horse-riding bears, and aerial acrobatics within.
University Sobered by Alumnus’ Death on Campus
Alumnus' death sparks renewed alcohol debate.
Other Places
Reports from four alumni on what it's like now in Russia, Iran, China, and Guatemala.
Carole Solomon’s Sacred Mission
In Israel with the first woman to chair the United Jewish Appeal.
Letters
Mar|Apr 1999: Stouffer loyalists unite, shallow "waves," and more.
Radioactive Cocaine Analogue Sheds Light on Brain
Diagnostic drug may provide clue to Parkinson's cure.
The Stock Market Sage
When he was a kid, Wharton finance professor Jeremy Siegel liked to chart the growth of morning glories in his back yard; now he directs his keen attention to the rise and fall of the stock market.
The Flu of 1918
It started with a cough in the summer of 1918. In the next 120 days, nearly 22 million people around the world would die in one of the worst epidemics in modern times. And Philadelphia was to be the American city with the highest death toll.
The Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center
From College Hall | A library transformed for a new century.
Rewriting the Final Chapter
As medicine advances, the choices associated with end-of-life care grow more complex — especially when patients or their families clash with doctors, the state, and occasionally each other, over when to treat and when to let go.
Big Shoes
From the Editor | June 1998