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Hello, Dr. Chips
An emeritus English professor and frequent Gazette contributor looks at how Penn's faculty has been portrayed in the magazine during its first century.
The Stamp Seal Mystery
A Bronze Age mound in Central Asia yielded a tantalizing clue to a “new” ancient civilization. For archaeologist Fred Hiebert, it was one more reason why Raphael Pumpelly was right.
Penn Community Grieves and Unites After Terror
Students, faculty, staff, and alumni draw together.
Thinking About 9/11
Penn’s faculty on terrorism, Islam, and life after the attacks.
Dinosaurs Lost and Found
A Penn graduate student's quest to rediscover the "lost dinosaurs of Egypt" was a story made for television—a two-hour documentary will air this winter—and led to a spectacular new find as well.
Looking for God
Medical alumnus and faculty member Dr. Andrew Newberg probes deep inside the brain in a quest to understand faith.
How A Chemist Found Prints Charming
Dr. Madeleine Joullié G’50 Gr’53
New Faces
Department of Fine Arts Graduate Faculty.
Early Amazon Fish Stories
Pre-Hispanic fishing weir discovered in Amazon basin.
Dr. DiIulio Goes to Washington
DiIulio to head White House office for faith-based programs.
This is Only a Test
Rather than wrangle over a hypothetical new curriculum, the College of Arts and Sciences has opted for an experimental approach—with help from some pioneering freshmen.
The Big Picture
David Koerner, a Penn astronomer and accomplished pianist, probes the universe for clues about how prevalent planetary systems, and life itself, may be.
Lang Steps Down as Dean of Nursing
Lang steps down as nursing school dean
Monty in Full
Bruce Montgomery is laying down his baton after half a century at Penn. In a spirited interview, he talks about his musical triumphs, tribulations and travels.
Haunted by an Heiress
Ever since first reading her as an unhappy child at camp, Nina Auerbach has returned to the novels and stories of Daphne du Maurier. Now, in a new book from the University Pennsylvania Press, the Victorian scholar and Penn professor ponders her lifelong obsession with the writer best remembered—unjustly—for Rebecca.
Traber Named Permanent CEO of Health System
Traber made permanent Health System CEO
McHarg to Receive the Japan Prize
McHarg awarded Japan Prize for city planning
The World According to Gieg
Earth and Environmental Science Professor Bob Giegengack has fulfilled a boyhood dream of visiting exotic locales from the Sahara to the Antarctic and has earned the admiration and affection of a generation of students. He cautions today's young academics not to follow in his footsteps.
High Noon in the ‘hood
Penn sociologist Elijah Anderson writes about life at "ground zero," in the inner city's most blighted areas. In this excerpt from his new book, a reformed drug-dealer turned small-businessman attempts to take back a neighborhood corner from his successor in the drug trade.
Philosophy in the Trenches
"Philosophy with a point" at the Law School
Plant’s Taste for Heavy Metal is in the Genes
Advance in using plants to treat toxic sites
My Shrink’s OK, Your Pill’s OK
Study finds therapy as effective as drugs
The Vision Thing
As the National Science Foundation's new director of Computer and Information Science and Engineering, Dr. Ruzena Bacsjy—a Penn computer-science professor noted for her work on robotic perception—must get Congress to see its way to creating greater support for basic research in information technology.