An online education startup from Stanford, Coursera offers free online classes taught by top university professors across the nation. A Coursera course grants students instant access to several hours of lecture videos and quizzes put together by the course professor.

University City District leaders attended a reception at World Cafe Live celebrating the 15th anniversary of UCD.

The Philadelphia Police Foundation is a nonprofit organization founded in 1998 that funds the Philadelphia Police Department in areas otherwise not covered under budget.

The six-course American Sign Language minor was approved by a unanimous vote by the School of Arts and Sciences faculty last April, becoming the first program of its kind in the Ivy League.

Beginning Oct. 19, the Office of Alcohol and Other Drug Program Initiatives will begin accepting applications from student groups to register on-campus events under the pilot’s new guidelines.

Saturday afternoon, the Penn field hockey team fell at Dartmouth, 2-0, snapping its two-game winning streak.

Friday, the women’s soccer team beat Cornell, 2-1, in Ithaca, N.Y. Penn extended its Ivy winning streak to 7-0-1 with the win, the longest Ancient Eight streak in program history. The Quakers resumed action Sunday with a home-game tune-up against NJIT, winning, 4-0.

The term “digital humanities” refers to an array of activities, such as the use of social media platforms as research environments and data mining within literary works, according to English professor James English, who is the founding director of DHF.

Both the men’s and women’s cross country teams competed at Lehigh’s Paul Short Invitational on Friday. Out of 33 teams, the men finished in first, while the women finished 16th out of 40 schools.

The Quakers split their first Ivy weekend away from their home court, easily overcoming Dartmouth in three sets but falling to Harvard in a five-set battle.

Pushed to victory by a 73-yard touchdown catch by senior Whit Shaw with only nine seconds left in the game, the Red and Blue defeated Franklin Pierce, 24-20.

The results were originally delayed as a result of alleged violations. The result for Wharton class chair was not announced due to an unprecedented tie.

For the second straight year, the Quakers began Ivy League play with a heartbreaking one-goal loss to Cornell, with this iteration coming by a final of 3-2 in Ithaca, N.Y.

Groups will face a budget cut of 5 percent for every $1,000 of debt they have accumulated, with the savings applied toward paying off the groups’ debt.

The 2012 Red and Blue is a power football team that operates best with a run-first mentality. The question still remains as to who will emerge as the go-to-guy in Bagnoli’s running back rotation.

Among other changes, the pilot will allow mixed drinks to be served at certain registered parties. The program also aims to create more spaces on campus for non-Greek student groups to host events with alcohol.

“You have to do everything to the best of your ability,” Frankel said. “If you are delivering coffee on a movie set, then you deliver the best coffee that you possibly can.”