Demographer Preston Takes the Helm at SAS
New SAS dean named. Plus: Q&A.
“And Still I Rise”
Penn alumna, School of Nursing professor, and "around-the-way girl" Loretta Sweet Jemmott is working to get mothers and sons in Philadelphia's housing projects talking about preventing teen pregnancy and HIV infection.
Janzen Takes 1997 Kyoto Prize, Gives to Nature
Biology professor wins Kyoto prize
Edward B. Shils W’36, G’37, Gr’40, L’86, GL’90, GrL’97
The "Energizer Bunny" of Education.
Where Human Life Happens
Genetic testing and other technologies that offer a "window on the womb" are allowing parents to know more about their prospective offspring than ever before. Is that good?
Hackney: Back to History from the Humanities
"I'm really looking forward to being back at Penn."
The Catch of the Day, Fresh from the Tank
"The future lies in these artificial tanks."
Image Tribes
Advertisers are targeting specific audiences as never before, dividing consumers more and more narrowly along income, age, gender, and ethic lines, and splintering society in the process.
Dr. Richard Estes
Professor has translated social concerns into international action.
Opening Up
A former Thouron Fellow looks back at her mind-expanding year in England in the late 1970s.
The Wisdom of Perl: Balancing the Emotional Research Budget
Nobel-prize winner Martin Perl on the art and craft of experimental physics
Wired Man
Twenty years after he helped created the Internet, Dave Farber is working to keep it open to all manner of unconventional ideas -- inlcuding his own -- and pondering the next big thing in cyberspace.
We Owe More to Clean Living Than We Thought
Why half of us might not be here.