(Go Magazine)
Four locals find inspiration in Philadelphia.
Profiles
The Energizer Dean
(The Pennsylvania Gazette)
From her distinctive outfits to her influential research to her indefatigable efforts to raise the profile of Penn’s School of Nursing, Dean Afaf Meleis commands attention-provided you can keep up with her.
Love, Write, Barter
(New Jersey Life)
Best-selling author Liz Gilbert transports readers with her words. Now she’s offering another route around the world via Two Buttons, her Frenchtown warehouse of wonders from Southeast Asia.
Shooting the Men of Steel
(Pennsylvania Gazette)
Like every kid in Titusville, a small town in the northwest corner of Pennsylvania, Chris Crisman C’03 spent a week of sixth grade at hunting camp, learning how to shoot a rifle…
Tales Out of School
(Philadelphia)
Attending a great high school gives kids a leg up in the college sweepstakes. But admissions officers today aren’t necessarily looking for applicants with laundry lists of clubs and activities—it’s the passionate and in-depth pursuit of one interest that really makes a kid stand out.
Turning Lives Inside Out
(Philadelphia City Paper)
Temple professor Lori Pompa is a free woman, but she spends as much time in jail as she does outside. Why does she do it and why are others following?
Could You Switch Lives with Your Boss?
(Marie Claire)
Your boss has the fancy car, elegant home, and best table at the city’s hippest restaurant. You’ve got … not so much. What would it be like to trade places for 24 hours?
Scrabble Rouser
(Philadelphia)
Katie Devanney hunches over the blue and white tiles on her Scrabble rack: PNTSCMW. Her eyes dart from her rack to the board that divides her and her opponent
Annie Get Your Flush
(The Pennsylvania Gazette)
It’s Day Three of the World Series of Poker (WSOP), and Annie Duke Gr’99 is taking a break from the action at Binion’s Horseshoe in Las Vegas.
The Guru of Woo
(The Pennsylvania Gazette)
Can’t get co-workers to cooperate on an important project? Boss won’t listen to your ideas? The Wharton School’s Richard Shell can help.
Breeding a $5,000 fish
(Fortune Small Business)
Joe Zuritsky, CEO of Parkway Corp., a Philadelphia company that operates 100 parking facilities in the U.S., on breeding koi …