Leanne Ta

After a week of filling in bubbles of teacher-evaluation forms, some students are finding that rating professors on a scale of one to four just doesn't cut it. The Center for Teaching and Learning - a University-run team of officials that helps professors improve their teaching - is currently working with student-government groups to enhance the feedback that instructors receive at the end of every semester.

Clean laundry is just an e-mail away. Housing and Conference Services will be implementing a new laundry-alert program in Sansom Place next semester. The program will send electronic notifications to students when their laundry is complete, Housing Services spokeswoman Dana Matkevich said.

Visit the University of Delaware's Web site, and you'll find the smiling face of Wharton Dean Patrick Harker displayed above the celebratory headline "Presidential Search Completed."

No Penn student won a Rhodes scholarship this year, and the loss may be part of a larger decline of the Ivy League monopoly on major international awards. While Penn succeeded in sending 4 students -- out of a total of 32 Penn applicants - to the finals of the U.

Being on the cutting edge is tough. The rapid rise in new technology means that brand-new computers may need to be replaced within years in order to keep up with the pace of new software development. Experts say that the time it takes to get a Penn degree is about the lifespan of the average iBook.

How it's done Today a parking lot; tomorrow a nanotechnology research building that could cost upwards of $80 million. That, in a nutshell, is the present and future of a space near 33rd and Walnut streets. The lot, which sits next to the Laboratory for Research on the Structure of Matter, is slated to hold the new facility as part of Penn's eastward expansion.

Whether it's going to college or getting a job, high-school graduation usually means more freedom. But for Engineering exchange student Weijie Poh and College sophomore Shijie Lu, the end of high school was the beginning of a grueling stint in the Singapore Armed Forces.

It happened just like a dream. Karen Pittelman discovered that she was the recipient of a $3 million trust fund when she became a senior at Brown University. Now, Pittelman is working for an organization called Resource Generation, reaching out to other wealthy young people - including Penn students - to help them figure out exactly what to do with newfound millions.

The new year will bring a new version of Windows, and Penn officials promise any students with the new software continued compatibility with campus technology. Microsoft is expected to release Windows Vista, the newest Windows operating system, in January.

The man some have credited with ending the Vietnam War is coming to Penn. Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger - a recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize - will speak at Irvine Auditorium at 8 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 14.