Sandy Smith

If, a few decades hence, people elsewhere speak of Philadelphia as a great literary town, we can credit Kerry Sherin Wright (C’87), among others, for the transformation.

As you read this, a group of Wharton MBA students are winding up the experience of a lifetime, and Professor of Management Michael Useem is completing one more lesson in leadership using an unorthodox case study. The experience and the case study are one and the same—the annual Wharton Leadership Ventures trek up Mt. Everest.

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What can someone learn about the Middle East from a can of beans and a box of Kellogg’s Corn Flakes? Quite a bit, it turns out.

Have you met our new executive vice president, Maj. Gen. Clifford Stanley, yet? If you haven’t, be patient—you will.

One speaker came to underscore the enduring friendship between France and America. The other came to express new hope for an enduring peace between Israel and Palestine. For both, that also meant talking about Iraq.

Operation Priceless Treasure: By virtue of its being one of the two institutions involved in the excavations that unearthed the Royal Tombs of Ur in the 1920s and 1930s, the University of Pennsylvania Museum is taking the lead along with its excavation partner, the British Museum, in tracking down the objects looted from the Iraqi National Museum of Antiquity after Saddam Huss

Ralph W. Muller has been named chief executive officer of the University of Pennsylvania Health System, effective July 1.

Professor of Education Joan Goodman is convinced that early childhood education is at heart a moral undertaking.

Tukufu Zuberi already wears two hats at Penn: Professor of sociology and director of the Center for Africana Studies. Now he’s added a third hat—the detective’s fedora.