Vol. 102, No. 1
Features
The Cult of DMD
The view from inside Penn’s digital-media-design major: “We are an annoying, fidgety, break-things-and-fix-it cult—who make horrible noises.” Others might say that the program attracts some of Penn’s brightest, most dedicated, and most creative students.
By Samuel Hughes
Nurturing Enterprise
Want to grow a business? Entrants in the annual Wharton Business Plan Competition can get top-flight gardening advice—and maybe pick up some seed money as well.
By Jon Hurdle
The Most Amazing Cell
It won’t mean, as one silly headline had it, “Eggs Over Easy,” but the discovery by the vet school’s Dr. Hans Schöler that male mouse stem-cells could develop into oocytes—eggs—opens the door to understanding what he calls “the one cell that I think is the most amazing of all.”
By Joan P. Capuzzi Giresi
Departments
Letters
FIRST PERSON: Essays
Notes From the Undergrad: Impersonating an alcoholic
Alumni Voices: Nick is gone
Elsewhere: Riding with the bulls
Expert Opinion: Are you an Influential?
GAZETTEER:
Leaders aim for smooth transition in College Hall
Affirmative Action decision applauded
With smoking, even happiness harms
The Quiet American chosen for Penn Reading Project
Oil flows will lift Iraq (eventually)
Cell block turned art gallery
HUP makes honor roll and “most wired” list
SARS panel: “Is it coming back? We don’t know.”
Goodbye GSFA, hello School of Design
Nasal spray may replace annual flu shot
In football, Quakers look hard to beat
Athletic Director Bilsky on Ivy reforms
ALL THINGS ORNAMENTAL: The Arts
Art: Patti Smith’s drawings at the ICA
Books: Uniforms. What to wear
Books: In Full Bloom. Mother knows best?
Interview: I’m “with” George—co-author Nate Chinen
Briefly Noted
Arts Calendar
ALUMNI : Profiles : Events : Notes : Obituaries
Mosaics master | Jonathan Mandell
Sports broadcaster | Scott Graham
Award winner | Elsie Sterling Howard
“Out” actor | Robert Gant
“Fairy Godmother” | Helen Rosenau