Letters
March|April 2017: Trump (non)coverage, sanctuary campus pro and con, and more.
Beyond Granola
Notes from my backcountry recipe book.
Serial EarthQuakers
Alumni writers dig up their satiric LA-earthquake novel.
Bone Warrior
Dinosaur hunter Edward Drinker Cope studied briefly at Penn in his youth and ended his days as a faculty member at the University. In between, the impulsive and driven scholar churned out more than 1,400 scientific publications—and exchanged many harsh words—in an epic battle with his more methodical rival, Othniel Charles Marsh of Yale, for primacy in the nascent field of paleontology.
On the Election
From the Editor, Jan|Feb 2017
Alumni Notes
Jan|Feb 2017
Sustaining Sonoma’s Vineyards
Karissa Kruse W’97 WG’04 leads sustainability efforts in Sonoma County.
What Kids Want (to Watch)
Twenty-five years after she helped launch the original Nicktoons, Linda Simensky is still deciding what millions of kids watch on TV—and teaching Penn students who grew up loving the shows she developed.
States Worse Than Death
Patient preferences diverge from standard measures of care quality.
Nov|Dec 2016
Volume 115, No. 2
When Twenty Meets Forty
A Penn story (but not hers) by Allison Winn Scotch C’95.
Letters
Nov|Dec 2016: CA memories, Disneyland lessons.
Leadership Program’s New Name, and the Complications of Compromise
$10 million gift for McNulty Leadership Program at Wharton.
Unconventional
Photographer Arthur Drooker C’76 has trained his lens on American Ruins and Lost Worlds. His new collection, Conventional Wisdom, covers his strangest territory yet.
Hands On History
For the past three decades, the Raab family has been buying and selling rare documents. It’s a uniquely personal way of learning—and sharing—history.
Eat. Dismay. Love.
Penn’s changing palate.
Method Inventor
With an innovation portfolio that ranges from medical devices to folding bicycles to social-impact enterprises to junk food, Wharton professor Karl Ulrich has every justification to bask in entrepreneurial mystique. Only that’s exactly what he sets out to demolish in the classroom.
Director Gone Bad
Mean Girls director Mark Waters C’86 is taking a shot at R-rated comedy with Bad Santa 2 this Thanksgiving—and still trying to figure out his place in ever-evolving Hollywood.
Our Father
Tom Hagan’s lessons.
The New Biology
From matchbook-sized models of living human organs to the surprising alternative-energy implications of symbiotic giant clams, the work of three new faculty members represents the changing face of bioscience at Penn.