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Botanical history come to life
In a sense, every botanical garden and arboretum in the United States is built on the work of John Bartram, America's first botanist. So it's certainly fitting that the Morris Arboretum mark the 300th anniversary of his birth with a glimpse inside his life and career on Wednesday, May 19.
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Slow descent into violence and death
Women in West Philadelphia are dying violent deaths. The numbers are shocking to Jeane Ann Grisso, who headed a case-controlled survey of West Philadelphia women who came into emergency rooms at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Misericordia and Presbyterian. The survey compared the answers of women with injuries to those with other health concerns. "It was an eye opener to me," Grisso said. A huge portion of the women who came in with other health concerns also reported having experienced domestic violence.
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Phat beats
Who's running the zoom zoom zoom in the boom boom at Penn? Our reporter on Locust Walk pulled hurrying students aside on a clear spring day to inquire into their preferred beats come graduation day. Students were usually short and sweet about why they liked hip-hop over, say, chamber music. Unlike the finals many of them had just come from or were headed toward, shaking it out on the dance floor doesn't require a great deal of analytical thinking or studied comprehension of vocabulary words.
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Big night from BIG-C
The Saturday night of Penn Relays weekend is for for stepping, not running. The Class of '23 Ice Skating Rink trembled beneath the stomping feet of fraternity brothers - like these seven acrobats from Penn's Alpha Phi Alpha chapter - and sorority sisters who performed elaborate routines during the annual Penn Relays step show organized by the Bicultural InterGreek Council (BIG-C). Photo by Mark Garvin
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Jewish jazz, Irish roots and more
Time to catch up with Ireland's foremost traditional band, the Chieftains, and with those masters of "Jewish jazz," the New Orleans Klezmer All-Stars, on "The World Cafe" these next two weeks. Of course, that's not all that's happening on the show: Thursday, May 13 Elliot Smith performs music from his album "XO" Friday, May 14 David Dye visits with the Chieftains and James Galway Monday, May 17 An encore presentation of Rufus Wainwright's Cafe visit
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Research grants get overseer
Andrew B. Rudczynski
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A grand sendoff for the Class of '99
Photo by Tommy Leonardi For many, it's a familiar spectacle: The bleating of the bagpipes. The colorful banners of the organized classes stretching back nearly to the dawn of the century. The whimsical decorations on the graduates' caps. And all the pomp and circumstance the Office of the Secretary can arrange for the occasion.
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Entrepreneurs face the firing line
Talk about gut-wrenching. You've just poured your soul out to a group of people you've never met, trying to convince them with slides and self-assurance why they should pour millions of their own dollars into your would-be business. Then one of them asks, "Have you done any research that would indicate that there is a real demand for this?" You pause, caught off-guard momentarily. And even though you regain your composure and soldier on, somewhere inside, you know you've just kissed the money goodbye.
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Paul Hendrickson
Paul Hendrickson began his book about the Vietnam War with a young man attempting to toss former Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara from the deck of a Martha's Vineyard ferry. "The Living and the Dead: Robert McNamara and Five Lives of a Lost War" is a search for redemption for these two men wrestling on a boat, as well as for Hendrickson. He says that all his books are searches of a kind, for a particular past or redemption for sins.
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A near-death experience proves sobering
Jed Ryan (W'99) drinks a non-alcoholic toast to dear old Penn. Photo by Candace diCarlo Jed Ryan (W'99) almost didn't live to tell this story.