Documenting the Unspeakable
Barbara P. Barnett GEd’71 documents Holocaust-survivors’ stories.
Letters
May|June 2015: Restaurants, food waste, and more.
Fear, Loathing, and Denial
Denying hurt doesn’t make it disappear.
Reviving the Doctor-Patient Relationship
Seeing past the ‘iPatient.’
Neuroscience for Poets (or Lawyers, or Nurses…)
SCAN certificate program serves non-specialists in neuroscience.
The Waymaker
Andy Strauss has spent 25 years preserving land and creating trails to restore natural beauty to blighted landscapes. Now he has a vision for the hardscrabble coal country of northeastern Pennsylvania.
Living Up to the Lipstick
In the two decades since her breast-cancer diagnosis, Geralyn Lucas C’89 has become an icon and inspiration to fellow survivors for her flamboyant and gleefully defiant response to her disease. It all started with her choice of lipstick to wear for her mastectomy.
Food Waste Nation
Conference tackles food waste (all 1.3 billion tons a year).
Ghost Boosters
Who ya gonna call … to study the “sociological truth” of ghosts?
Walking On, Bowing Out
Matt Hanessian’s unlikely journey to—and from—varsity basketball.
The T-Cell Warriors
Four years after a tentative but tantalizing breakthrough against leukemia, Carl June and Bruce Levine C’84 have gone from the fringes of gene therapy to the center of a revolutionary approach to cancer treatment.
More Quaker Magic
Ten months after winning one historic title, the high-flying Penn women's basketball team captured another one.
The Hardest Roommate
Me time, pro and con.
Made (Again) in the USA
Three generations of Hornicks—at Penn, in business, and back in the USA.
Wasting Time on the Internet
As you’re wasting time on the Internet over Thanksgiving, take a minute to consider Penn’s newest class, which is focused on just that.
A Labor of Love from Her Brain to Yours
Brain Pickings is Maria Popova C’07’s “one-woman labor of love.”
From Printer to Prototype
An “entry-level 3D printer” is still pretty impressive.
Jerome Allen Faces a Tipping Point
Make-or-break season for men’s basketball coach?
Letters
Sept|Oct 2014: Proper names, admissions stats, and more.
Saving Lassie
PennVet’s bloodmobile collects the red stuff for dogs, from dogs.