Greg Johnson

Over the past 15 years, the World Wide Web has transformed human knowledge, research, communication and commerce. Consumers purchase goods at sites like Amazon.com and eBay.com, friends stay connected through sites like Facebook and MySpace, and scholars work collaboratively across long distances.

A potential casino customer has a number of decisions to make. Which casino to visit? When to go? How much money to spend? And where to spend that money—at slot machines or tables?

…And on the 99th day, the political gods delivered Arlen Specter. President Obama received an unexpected gift on the eve of his 100th day in office when Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter announced that he was leaving the Republican Party to join the Democrats.

WHAT:"40 Winks with the Sphinx" is the Penn Museum’s new sleepover program for children ages 6-12, their parents, or an a

Funding from telecommunications giant AT&T will allow Penn’s Netter Center for Community Partnerships to help more high school students stay in school and prepare for college.

Photo credit: Mark Stehle FOREIGN SERVICE: Kamanda, a third-year Penn Law student, is the founder and editor-in-chief of

Joshua Plotkin, the Martin Meyerson Assistant Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies at Penn, has been a fan of math since his youth. He majored in math as an undergraduate student at Harvard, studied it as a visiting student at Oxford University and also planned to continue studying it in graduate school.

WHEN?: On display from April 24 to Aug. 2 at the Institute of Contemporary Art, 118 S. 36th St.

Four members of the Penn community were recently honored with the distinguished Guggenheim Fellowship, an annual award given by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to accomplished men and women who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or extraordinary creative ability in the arts.