The Vital Thread of Tom Sugrue
In The Origins of the Urban Crisis and now Sweet Land of Liberty, Penn historian Thomas Sugrue has shattered the conventional narrative about the struggle for Civil Rights in this country. The new book was published on the same day a black man was elected president; still, says Sugrue, “We’ve got a lot of overcoming to do.”
Proof of Concept
Four years after Amy Gutmann set out to reinvigorate the interdisciplinary ethos at Penn, a new kind of professorship is on the ascendant.
The Revolution Will Not Be Canonized
Parsing the politics of—and against—modern American poetry.
The Autumn of the Matriarch
Mothers and daughters tangle and untangle in West Philadelphia.
Sing on, old friend….
Window, Sep|Oct 2008
Northern Exposure
From research assistant to co-editor in just seven years
Funding and (Good) Fellowship
Fontaine Society aids underrepresented in academe
Hack Leaving Design
PennDesign Dean Gary Hack to step down
Keeping Faith
Bloodied but unbowed by his stint as George W. Bush’s first “faith czar,” alumnus and political science professor John. J. DiIulio is more convinced than ever of America’s faith-based future—and he has a new book that tells why.
Ideals Embodied
From College Hall: Penn’s faculty forms the core of a great teaching and research community.
Economics Professor Pleads Guilty and Resigns
Former econ prof pleads guilty to manslaughter
Mr. Olin’s Neighborhood
One of the most acclaimed landscape architects of his generation, the School of Design’s Laurie Olin has helped remake Penn’s campus, reclaim New York’s Bryant Park, and resurrect Independence Mall. Now he has joined forces with architect Frank Gehry to boldly reinvent the heart of Brooklyn. No urban development project in American history compares to their $4 billion vision. No wonder the locals are restless.
Across the Borderline
Building on the international connections of “the most networked man in the world,” the new Center for Global Communication Studies is exploring the vast and tangled web of global media.
An Inaccurate Truth?
Giegengack’s inconvenient questions.
Marketing Professor Pleads Guilty
Ward pleads guilty to child pornography charges.
Out of Armenia
Poems political and personal by Gregory Djanikian C’71.
The Wife, the Lady, and the Book of Dames
When an English professor set out to create an animated opera based on “The Wife of Bath’s Tale,” she decided to bring in some very un-Chaucerian characters. That’s when the real fun began.
Nobel-Winner MacDiarmid Dies
Nobel-prize chemist Alan MacDiarmid dies at 79
Economics Professor on Trial
Economics professor charged with murder
The Logic of Torture
Heard on campus: Peter Singer on torture
Unlearning to Talk: Q&A with Charles Yang
How children learn language; or, why wuckoo?
On the Road Again
Kelly Writers House celebrates Kerouac classic
Gilding the Villa
The money-pit in paradise. Vizcaya
Free! At Last
Interview Lorene Cary C’78 G’78 on Free!