Penn Current: Interviews

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News, Ideas and Conversations from the University of Pennsylvania Oct. 2, 2008
Penn Current Home Research Features Interviews Ask Benny News Briefs At Work With For the Record Out and About Publication Schedule RSS Feeds What's On Event listings Sex educator Logan Levkoff talks about her new book, "Third Base Ain't What it Used to Be," on Oct. 3 at 4 p.m. at the Penn Bookstore. What do you think? Send us your ideas and comments to current@pobox.upenn.edu Penn Current Editorial Staff Editor: Tim Hyland Managing Editor: Heather A. Davis Staff Writer: Greg Johnson Executive Editor: Deni Kasrel	Interviews Q&A: David Thornburgh The new Fels director views Ben Franklin’s marriage of the theoretical and the practical—or as Thornburgh calls it, “the think, and the do”—as the essence of leadership. It’s a philosophy that ultimately attracted him to Fels. Read more ... Staff Q&A/Kenric Tsethlikai The Director of Language and Cultural Programs at Wharton's Lauder Institute says language skills are more important in business than ever before. Read more ... Q&A: Fay Ajzenberg-Selove This retired Penn professor and winner of the National Medal of Science is considered to be one of the most influential minds in physics--and was the first women to teach at a number of top schools. Read more ... Staff Q&A/Robert Preucel A new exhibit at the Penn Museum challenges stereotypes about Pennsylvania's Lenape Indian tribe. Read more ... More Current Interviews Q&A: John Gearhart Staff Q&A: Bill Keller Q&A: Karin Brower Q&A: Louis Rulli Staff Q&A: Pamela Edwards Derby death raises new questions Q&A: Michael Leja Staff Q&A: Bill Andresen & Lawrence Bertuola Q&A: Paul Meyer Staff Q&A: Stephen Fisher & Angela Norris Expert Opinion: Franklin Allen on the U.S. economic downturn Q&A: David Sarwer Staff Q&A: Randall Couch	Search Penn Current View Current Archives Other Useful Sites Penn Homepage Penn Digest Newsroom Research at Penn Arts at Penn Penn@Work U@Penn Jobs@Penn Staff Directory Campus Maps Library Transportation College of General Studies University Archives Penn Athletics Penn Recreation Human Resources Almanac World Cafe Live University City District Quoted Recently "Right now we have a crisis. They both recognize we have to solve this crisis. There are differences [in their plans] in the longer run." —Nicholas Souleles, an associate professor of finance at Penn, on Democratic Presidential Nominee Barack Obama and Republican Presidential Nominee John McCain’s response to the nation’s deepening financial crisis. (Philadelphia Daily News, Sept. 23, 2008)