From mummies to ancient swords to pottery from the Iron Age, the Penn Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology has offered visitors a look far back into the past for over a century and a quarter.

On Dec. 16, the PennSound poetry archive launched PennSound Radio, a 24-hour stream of readings and conversations accessible through both iTunes and a smartphone.

UMOJA — the umbrella organization for black student groups at Penn — recently elected College junior Aya Saed as its new planning and facilitating chair.

An anonymous $16.3 million donation establishes the Neuroscience of Behavior Initiative, which will fund faculty recruitment and interdisciplinary research.

Last week — for the second time ever — Furda contributed a post on The New York Times’ “The Choice” blog, which provides news stories and advice to college applicants and their families.

The city saw 20.7 homicides per 100,000 residents in 2011, with Chicago following closely with 15.7.

Spring sorority recruitment began Tuesday evening in Irvine Auditorium with the recruitment chairs encouraging Potential New Members to look at the deeper values of the sorority houses.

Launched near the end of 2011 by several members of the Penn community, Resolution ’12 is an initiative that encourages people to make New Year’s resolutions to benefit others. VIDEO: Word on the Walk

When the Penn women’s basketball team takes the court for Wednesday’s matchup against NJIT, they will do so without their defensive anchor, senior Jess Knapp.

The Quakers appeared to have a case of the pre-semester jitters in a loss to La Salle. They simply couldn’t execute with any regularity, and now will likely be relegated to another winless season in the city round robin.

After losing senior forward Jess Knapp to injury over the break, Penn lost to Princeton 83-48 in the opening game of the Ivy season.

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By withholding the university’s imprimatur from BDS and its boycotts, President Gutmann reflects the Penn community’s strong and long-established ties with Israel.

Facetime or not, I still have a strong desire to keep learning. I want to continue the intellectual conversations that have started in the classroom.

This morning, the Philadelphia municipal court closed the cases related College junior Moshe Bitterman and College sophomore Emma Johnson’s arrests at Occupy Philadelphia on Nov. 30.

The New Hampshire Republican primary unfolded as expected on Tuesday night, with former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney coming in first, garnering 39.3 percent of the vote.

Harvest Seasonal Grill & Wine Bar will be moving into the vacant spot previously held by Marathon Grill and MarBar, which closed last May. The new restaurant, set to open in June, will feature an upscale-casual environment with a wine bar on the second level.