Heather Davis

If there’s one thing that could diffuse the situation with North Korea, nearly a month after the country set off a nuclear test, it’s diplomatic conversation, says Professor of Japanese and Korean Studies G. Cameron Hurst. “Diplomacy doesn’t mean talking to people you like,” he says. “You have to sit down and talk to [North Korea].”

Photo credit: Candace diCarlo

PERFORMANCE/Mimi Stillman is working on a Ph.D. in history, but her true passion is music. She founded the Dolce Suono Chamber Music Concert Series last year.

Three hundred new lights like this one now brighten sidewalks—and improve safety—throughout University City. The West Philly night sky is brighter than ever because of a new lighting initiative designed to m

It’s easy to see how people can get turned around when they visit the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania.

Fall is a busy time. Kids are back in school and schedules suddenly seem a lot more crowded. Work, too, kicks back into high gear after a summer lull. So, how can you stay calm and not stress out? How can parents keep kids healthy as they are exposed to germs at school? And why am I still sneezing? Isn’t allergy season over?

In the mid-1980s, physician Fred Kaplan met a little girl with fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva (FOP). Watching the disease progress in the girl “was like watching a molecular terrorist attack her body,” he says. In this and other FOP patients, soft tissues and muscles metamorphize into bone, essentially forming a second skeleton and rendering movement impossible.

Traveling, for many of us, evokes images of exotic shores, distant lands or time away from work, home and even the kids. It may also conjure up thoughts of diaries or travel writing, globalization and nomads, Ulysses’ great journey or ecotourism.

Staff Q&A/Two employees at the New Bolton Center talk about the drawings, get-well cards and dozens of flowers sent to one very famous patient. “Barbaro did receive a wedding invitation a couple weeks ago.”

Experimental dance, a stage set reminiscent of a World Trade Center stairwell and an electronic/classical music fusion are just some of the highlights to hit University City stages during this year’s Philadelphia Live Arts Festival & Philly Fringe, which began Sept. 1 and runs through Sept. 16.