Politics and Poetry in Kashmir
English Professor Suvir Kaul on Kashmir’s rich poetry and tragic politics.
Plastic Fantastic
Penn Medicine’s Frances E. Jensen is a leader in studying how the brain develops and what that means for learning, behavior, and the treatment of disease at different ages. For her book on the teenage brain, she drew on the latest neuroscience findings—and the experiment going on in her own home.
Grim and Grimmer
Terrible suffering, strikingly dissimilar. A Tale of Two Plantations.
Rediscovering the Impromptu Man
Jonathan Moreno on “J.L.,” his psychodrama-founding father.
Moving on from Marx
An emeritus professor of sociology recalls his political and intellectual evolution.
Elementary
Even in the era of Big Science, some of the greatest discoveries start with someone—Penn physics professor and Nobel contender Charles Kane, for instance—just sitting in a room and thinking.
(Cr)ISIS and Opportunity
Q&A with Iraq expert Brendan O’Leary.
First-year Bioengineering Prof Nabs “Genius Grant”
Bioengineering professor Danielle Bassett wins “genius” grant.
Before Taking Off, Take In the Sky
Deirdre Murphy GFA’00’s panoramic Sky Paintings.
Salamishah Tillet’s Journey
The Penn alumna and English professor—survivor of two rapes while an undergraduate—has become a lauded scholar and teacher and a leading activist in the effort to end violence against women and girls.
The Moment and the Poem
There’s a rich music in the poetry of Gregory Djanikian C’71, along with hard-won wisdom, a generous spirit, and a “clarity that does not negate complication.”
Strong Serve from Penn at the Whitney Biennial
Strong Penn presence at Whitney Biennial.
How to Build a City of Light
Turning on the lights. How Paris Became Paris
Characters in Search of Writers
Victor Mair on forgetting how to write in Chinese.
Saved Before Birth
CHOP and Penn doctors receive prestigious John Scott Award.