Volume 104, No. 1
Features
The Cowbird Variations
Animal behaviorist David White is teasing out the mysteries of cowbirds at the junction of Heredity and Environment. | By Samuel Hughes
Fruits & Fate
Dr. Marie Savard wants every woman to know that her body shape—whether she is round in the middle like an apple or wider at the bottom like a pear—is the single best predictor of her health risks. | Plus:W Weight-loss the Volumetrics way. | By Caroline Tiger
Gray is Good
From Social Security to sex, AARP’s Bill Novelli is working to make aging safe—and cool—for the baby-boom generation and the rest of us. | By Dennis Drabelle
Departments
FIRST PERSON : Essays
Notes from the Undergrad: Hanging with the homeless
Alumni Voices: Life lesson
Elsewhere: Fading paradise
Expert Opinion: How to fix Social Security
GAZETTEER : News & Sports
Sociologist Kathryn Edin on poor women’s choices
Humanities Forum to examine Word and Image
Honors for Penn Medicine
Freshmen orient themselves online
BLAST-Off: Balloon-borne astronomy
CPRE marks 20 years of education research
Dissertation “boot camp” turns slackers into scholars
GIS technology enriches DuBois’ Philadelphia Negro
Research briefs
New name: School of Social Policy and Practice
Center for Molecular Discovery
A Faulkner scholar in “Oprah’s Classroom”
Curriculum revision approved for College
Football: Favorites by a hair
Jim Finn, NFL survivor
ALL THINGS ORNAMENTAL : The Arts
Interview Cary Mazer on 25 years of theatre-arts at Penn
Art Present Passion: Gwyneth Leech’s Stations of the Cross
Books Creative Writing program launches literary journal
Briefly Noted
Arts Calendar
ALUMNI : Profiles
Moment maker Nadine Epstein
Art advocate Sheldon Bonovitz
Culinary revolutionist Amy Trubek
Pulitzer winner Charles Ornstein
Historic designer Kristin Haskins
ALUMNI : Events : Notes : Obituaries