Crossing the River on Horseback in the Night
One slave’s escape
Music Lessons
Carol Muller’s ethnomusicology class partners with a West Philadelphia Islamic school to explore the sounds of the Qur’an, and each other’s communities.
Lowering the Temperature
The threat of terrorism is real, but America’s response to it is dangerously counterproductive, writes Penn political-science professor Ian Lustick in this excerpt from his new book, Trapped in the War on Terror.
First PIK
First Penn Integrates Knowledge professor appointed
GSE Dean to Head Columbia Teacher’s College
GSE Dean named president of Columbia Teachers College
Penn’s Most Dangerous Minds?
Penn’s “tenured radicals”?
The Passion of Paul
The writer once known as Brother Garrett brings a compassionate fervor to his creative-writing classes.
Gentle Into That Good Night
An apology to Loren Eiseley.
Entertaining—and Enlightening—with Faulkner
A Faulkner scholar in “Oprah’s Classroom”
Insuring Against Terror
Since 9/11, Howard Kunreuther and his colleagues at the Wharton School’s Center for Risk Management and Decision Processes have been examining the thorny issue of how to protect society from the economic effects of the next terrorist attack.
A Remarkable Record
More than 50 years after it was written and nearly a century since the events described, Penn Law Professor and Dean Edwin Keedy’s account of the murder trial of two Inuit men in Canada’s far north remains a vivid and timely piece of scholarship.
$10 Million for Integrating Knowledge
Penn Integrates Knowledge receives $10 million gift
Tracking AIDS in Africa
Tracking AIDS in Africa
Former Neurology Professor Sentenced to House Arrest for Sexual Assault
McIntosh sentenced in sexual assault
How Green is My Brownfield
“Groundswell”: Beauty in Brownfields
The Bearable Lightness of Becky Young
Becky Young retrospective
In Dogged Pursuit of Ocular Health
Therapy that restores dog’s sight could help children
Now Playing on the Big Screen
Cinema studies is a new major program at Penn, but the University’s involvement with the form goes back to Eadweard Muybridge and the earliest days of moving pictures.
Hard Questions, Uneasy Answers
Reflecting on his recent experience in Kurdistan, Brendan O'Leary, a leading scholar of ethnopolitical conflict, ponders Iraq’s future.
More Time Doesn’t Mean Less Crime
Verdict: Stiffer sentences don’t deter crime.
Dodson’s Dinosaurs
Dual honors for dinosaur-expert Peter Dodson.
News to Chew On: Weaker Jaws, Bigger Brains?
Brains over bite.
Sarah Kagan’s “Genius Idea”
The 2004 MacArthur Foundation Fellow and nursing professor calls on clinicians to listen to patients“talk about what hurts, where the itch is, how tired they are, what they’ve done about it, and how illness has changed the way they live.”
