Penn Arts & Sciences Magazine - Spring 2007

Features

Cover
One World
A Scholar of Islam Reflects
on Religion and Violence
by Peter Nichols

The Large and the Small of It
Ben Horton Studies Microfossils to
Puzzle Out Global Warming,
Ancient Tsunamis and Modern-Day Murder
by Gigi Marino

Blanket of Blackness
Undergraduate Lifts the Cover on
Muslim-Hindu Relations in India
by Rajiv Bhagat

A House Divided
Political Scientists Probe the Roots and
Effects of Polarization
by Joseph Larry Teitelbaum

Rising With Bread
Scholarship Program Scatters Much
More Than Crumbs Upon the Water
by Sue Rardin

Briefs

Secrets From the Seabed
Shipwrecks As Time Capsules
From Antiquity
by Mark Wolverton

Recycling All the Way to the Bank
Young Lawyer Starts Environmental
Program That Makes Cents
by Joseph McLaughlin

Jamestown at 400 Years
Between Fact and Disney
by Eric Zrinsky

Departments

Dean’s Column
Building for Science

SAS Journal — Campus News
2007 Dean’s Forum
Democratically Speaking
Exceeding the Challenge
Next PIKs
CUREJ Through Research

SAS Frontiers — Faculty Research
Averaged American
DNA Gets Bent
Sex and Cigarettes
Girly Man
Between Two Empires

With Class — Teaching and Learning
Business and Bioscience Twine
Together in New Undergrad Program

Briefs

SAS Partnerships — Advancing Our Mission
Partners: Genes to Brains to Behavior
Journalism Legacy
All the World’s a Classroom

Last Word
What's in a Name?
by Ellen Umansky

Last Look
On Wings of Diesel