Sandy Smith

Computer security experts have long known that a few ill-placed lines of computer code could bring the country to its knees. Since 9/11, protecting against this threat has gained additional urgency.

In politics, even a loss can be turned to advantage if one plays one’s cards right. And that’s exactly what former broadcast journalist Marjorie Margolies-Mezvinsky has done with her brief tenure as a U.S. representative.

The event was billed as a program on “Old Recipes and How to Make Them Work.” The speaker: Fritz Blank, chef of Deux Cheminées, one of Philadelphia’s premier restaurants, and the proprietor of an impressive collection of old recipes, cookbooks, pamphlets, menus and other food-related material, some of which was on display in the Kamin Gallery corridor at Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center, the s

Success has many parents: And all of them—Penn administrators, elected officials, School District of Philadelphia staff and 100 actual parents of school children—turned out for the official dedication of the Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander University of Pennsylvania Partnership School Oct. 7.

A growing body of research suggests that to treat major depression, changing the way people think about things is as effective as changing their body chemistry through drugs.

The next time you walk into Pizza Rustica, take a good, deep breath. That fresh basil you smell grows just up 36th Street. Pizza Rustica is one of the first local customers of a student-run herb garden at University City High School, supported by the Center for Community Partnerships’ Urban Nutrition Initiative (UNI).

The locks are being changed Oct. 14: Which means that now is the time to register your PennKey so you won’t get locked out of Penn’s secure computing services after that day. There’s even a chance for you to win a Penn Bookstore gift certificate if you register your PennKey before midnight Oct. 9.

There they were, 15 of the best and brightest America and the world had to offer, sitting around a table in Kings Court/English College House waiting for their discussion leader to give them their first taste of academic life at an elite Ivy League university.

Maj. Gen. Clifford Stanley will report for duty as Penn’s new executive vice president at 0900 hours on Tuesday, Oct. 15.

In groundbreaking research, a Penn psychologist showed how people can build resistance to depression. Now courses aimed at groups like schools, corporations and health-care organizations teach the technique.