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Research: What's goin' on with Marvin Gaye?

Penn Current, April 29, 2004. In what turned out to be my swan song for the Current, I check out Michael Eric Dyson's new Marvin Gaye biography, "Mercy Mercy Me."

Shoe maven puts best foot forward at Wharton

Penn Current, Dec. 11, 2003. Designer Kenneth Cole gives a Wharton audience a full helping of his trademark wit and social consciousness.

Out and About: A trip into an ancient drug culture

Penn Current, Nov. 13, 2003. Holy peyote! Your correspondent discovers the Huichols of Mexico at the Penn Museum.

Research: A cosmic Krispy Kreme? Good question

Penn Current, April 20, 2003. Is the universe really a giant doughnut? Two Penn physicists' data make this a live question.

Staff Q&A: "That's always been a dream of mine, to hang a portrait."

The Penn Current, Jan. 24, 2002. This Staff Q&A, with Biology Department housekeeper and artist Ron Washington, led The Philadelphia Inquirer to do a story on Ron and his artwork.

Staff Q&A: "We try to utilize every moment we have to the max, because everything is Rush! Go! Fast!"

The Penn Current, March 22, 2001. Of all the Staff Q&As I did, this one, with the PennSTAR medevac helicopter crew, was the most enjoyable. Even if we all spent two hours cooling our heels in Lakewood, N.J.

What a difference three days make

Pennsylvania Current, March 2, 2000. One of my best straight-news articles.

Student Spotlight: A near-death experience proves sobering

Pennsylvania Current, May 13, 1999. One of the five articles that won the paper its only CASE Circle of Excellence Awards Gold Medal for Periodical Staff Writing, in 2000.

Point of View: What's a carnival without a sideshow?

Pennsylvania Current, May 14, 1998. In which your correspondent takes in the goings-on outside the Penn Relays.