French Lesson: Eat Less, Enjoy More
Petite portions keep French more fit
“Genius Grant” Nurses Excellence
Nursing School's Sarah Kagan wins MacArthur grant
Family Affairs
Postmodern pastiche of Chekhov’s plays
A Matter of Trust
Dr. Ira Harkavy saw long ago that the futures of Penn and West Philadelphia are connected. As director of the Center for Community Partnerships, he's led a persuasive campaign to link teaching and research to service and problem solving.
Author Earns City Honor
Lorene Cary honored with The Philadelphia Award for her work “to advance the best and largest interest of the community.”
The Immeasurable Curiosity of Edward Peters
A colleague calls Peters, the Henry Charles Lea Professor of History, “one of the great medievalists of his generation.” His own assessment: “I’m like cheap paint—I cover a lot, but not very well.”
An Unexpected Unity
Cret Professor of Architecture Daniel Libeskind’s winning design for the redevelopment of the World Trade Center site is an act of remembrance and restoration.
Make It Plain!
Michael Eric Dyson—professor, preacher, and “paid pest”—brings a critical eye and rhetorical flair to his analyses of hip-hop culture and his call for social justice.
Court Orders Penn to Pay Up
Penn ordered to pay $2.9 million to vet school professor
Spreading the Words
A century after University Museum archaeologists uncovered thousands of tablets bearing the earliest known form of writing and 25 years after efforts began to compile a dictionary of the language, the Penn Sumerian Dictionary Project is going online.
Chaim Potok’s Gift to Penn
Pushing the “frontiers of thought”
Education 24/7
At home with the Writers House Al Filreis.
Solar Neutrinos Shine on a New Nobel Laureate
Physics professor Ray Davis wins Nobel for work on solar neutrinos.
After the Prelude: Chopin Reconstructed
Music professor completes Chopin prelude.
When the Search Is Over
The World Trade Center attacks prompted an intense search-and-rescue effort. How have the 9/11 dogs and their human handlers been faring? Two Penn professors, Dr. Cindy Otto and Dr. Melissa Hunt, are trying to find out.
Bigger Baby, Heavier Paycheck
Link found between birth weight and pay
Nintendo, Limp Bizkit, and … God
Losing their religion (Not!)
An Apple a Day Keeps the Writers Block Away
The Appling of Kelly Writers House
The “Father of Neutrino Research” Honored
Davis earns National Medal of Science for neutrino research
Probing Plagiarism
Childers and other history faculty on plagiarism in the field
Faculty Favorites
Faculty member who most stimulated readers during their years at Penn.
Making the Most of the Material Past
A stint as a “trainee mortician” set Penn English Professor Peter Stallybrass on the path to scholarship. These days, he prowls old bookstores and library stacks in search of the objects that make the past come to life.
The Boy Chemist at 75
Well over a half-century and one Nobel Prize later, Penn Professor Alan G. MacDiarmid still possesses—and communicates to students—the energy and enthusiasm of a 10-year old with his first chemistry book.
An Affair to Remember
The dismissal of Economics Professor Scott Neering taught the University a valuable lesson—the hard way.