Volume 106, No. 1
Features
Youth, Interrupted
The Adolescent Mental Health Initiative is a major, Penn-led effort to address what one expert calls the “chronic diseases of the young.”
By Samuel Hughes
The Ethnologist Sets Out
William Curtis Farabee conducted pioneering studies of the Amazon for the Penn Museum in the early part of the 20th century. His journals and notebooks offer extraordinary glimpses of the area’s indigenous peoples, and the artifacts he brought back offer an unmatched—and still largely unexamined—treasure-trove of cultural materials.
By Beebe Bahrami
Web, Take Two
The ranger of a virtual dog park, an Internet entrepreneur-turned-venture capitalist, a story scout, a “fake engineer,” and a word-of-mouth marketer are among the Penn players in a movement known (by some) as Web 2.0.
By Susan Frith
Departments
FIRST PERSON : Essays
Notes from the Undergrad “Yin Yin will always be a part of me”
Alumni Voices Grad-school confidential
Elsewhere “You’re kind of messy, aren’t you?”
Expert Opinion International adoption works
GAZETTEER : News & Sports
Guns aren’t going away, so how can we live with them more safely?
New award lets entrepreneurs take care of business all summer long
Arrivals & departures at Wharton, admissions, and alumni relations
“You’re burning it anyway—might as well run your cars on it”
Mock-stock portfolio earns real money
Grad-student governments merge
Changing Times
Research briefs
Football preview
ALL THINGS ORNAMENTAL : The Arts
ART Student curators explore “Crimes of Omission” at ICA
BOOKS Censorship study. Dirt for Art’s Sake
Briefly Noted
Arts Calendar
ALUMNI : Profiles
Alumnae partner in Nurse-Family Partnership
Wire actor John Doman C’66
Slightly-too-slow bull runner Michael Lenahan C’05
Lyme fighter Steven Phillips W’87
Waste wrapper David Stoller C’72
ALUMNI : Events : Notes : Obituaries