A Brief History of Sitting Down
Take a chair.
When Push Comes to Shove
Cultural historian Francesca Ammon deconstructs the bulldozer.
Protecting “Negative Heritage” in Rwanda
In a church where victims were massacred, a team from Penn is helping Rwandan officials develop a plan to conserve the material evidence—bullet-riddled walls, blood-stained clothing—that bears witness to the country’s genocide.
E Pluribus, Polarization?
Political polarization less pronounced than partisans predict.
Eighteen Wheel Blues
Sociology’s Steve Viscelli on life as a long-haul trucker.
Dedication
Lorene Cary C’78 G’78 on a glorious day in the nation’s capital.
Darkwater Ripples
Arthur Ross Gallery show honors Terry Adkins’ influence.
A $2 Genetic Test for Zika
Penn researchers develop a $2 genetic test for Zika virus.
Fifty Shades of Grit
Q&A with Grit author and psych professor Angela Duckworth Gr’06.
Of Monsters and Ramen
Faculty couple Linda and Frank Chance share their love of Japan.
You Don’t Know Jack (Kerouac)
The long road to finding and translating Kerouac’s French writings.
Method Inventor
With an innovation portfolio that ranges from medical devices to folding bicycles to social-impact enterprises to junk food, Wharton professor Karl Ulrich has every justification to bask in entrepreneurial mystique. Only that’s exactly what he sets out to demolish in the classroom.
This’ll Never Work
This essay could be better.
The Election Issues That (Ought to) Matter
SP2 and IUR weigh in on what the 2016 election should be about.
Bioethics Goes to the Movies
First Bioethics Film Festival focuses on “authority and rebellion.”
Math Versus Computer Bugs
Computer scientists working to debug software using mathematics.
The New Biology
From matchbook-sized models of living human organs to the surprising alternative-energy implications of symbiotic giant clams, the work of three new faculty members represents the changing face of bioscience at Penn.
Dangerous Ideas
PIK Professor Dorothy Roberts exposes how the myth of biologically distinct races—forged in the era of slavery—continues to poison the present, affecting attitudes and policies on everything from child welfare to medical treatment.
Imagination Man
Scott Barry Kaufman has been called “the leading empirical creativity researcher of his generation.” Now he wants to use the tools he’s developed to unleash the “quiet potential” of vulnerable people—including kids like him—and help them flourish.
Inside Cleaver
Karen Rile C’80 wields Cleaver.
The Essential Tinseltown
Cinema studies’ Peter Decherney on Hollywood history.
“Historic Philadelphia,” Rethought
Historic preservation studio challenges neighborhood assumptions.
An Ethnographer Among the Hyenas
Q&A on sociologist David Grazian’s American Zoo.
That Roosevelt
Penn Law professor, legal scholar, and novelist Kermit Roosevelt III is doing his best to live up to the family name—including, in his latest book, by tackling cousin Franklin’s executive order authorizing the confinement of more than 100,000 Japanese Americans in internment camps during World War II.