February 13 , 2003
Daniel Richter and his McNeil Center for Early American Studies colleagues have widened the field’s horizons beyond Jamestown, Plymouth and the Revolution. The center’s benefactor has given their work a $6 million vote of confidence.
- Jeffcoat
a first for SDM
An award-winning dental researcher becomes the School of Dental Medicine's first woman dean.
- Bond
blasts the Right
A legendary figure from the civil rights movement surveys its contemporary state.
- Judge
Rendell: To lead, get inside their heads
Pennsylvania's first lady draws on her experience.
Editor’s Pick: Two decades,
one work
Bodyvox's founders survey the modern dance troupe's history in "Reverie."
- Research:
Pink-collar ghetto lives on
Forty years after the passage of equal-pay laws, women still earn three-fourths of what men earn, a new report shows.
- Student
Spotlight: Batter up for cricket
England's national sport is not an effete gentleman's game, says this world-class player from Bermuda.
- Staff
Q&A: John Shea
Persistence pays off for a campus literary eminence.
- Ask
Benny: Expectant dad can take time off
Also: Penn's Nobel laureates from the beginning to the present.
- Penn
experts weigh in on food debate
The conventional wisdom on diet is called into question, but the answer's still up in the air.
- Really
local weather
What's it like right now on campus? Now you can find out online.
- Smooth-sailing
careers with HR's help...
...and a better home life too.
- Out
and About: Reporter driven up a wall
Our intrepid correspondent releases her inner Spider-Man at the Pottruck Fitness Center.
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