One Penn professor is working to fill in longtime holes in Southeast Asian history. Archeology professor Joyce White hopes to find the once-inaccessible keys to opening up the region's history through a research project in the southeast Asian state of Laos, where she will return to in March.

The jury's unprecedented 11-day deliberations in the murder trial of Irina Malinovskaya ended with the majority angry that they could not reach a unanimous guilty verdict, one juror said in an interview this week.

I hate to beat a dead horse, but I just can't let this one go. What I saw Friday at the beginning of Penn's season opener was just embarrassing. And I'm not talking about what we all (or, some of us) saw on the court, where the Quakers stumbled their way to 24 points in the first half - shooting 31 percent from the field, 25 percent from distance and 42.

Elected last night, College junior Matt Dwyer will take the helm of the InterFraternity Council for the group's next term. Dwyer, who ran unopposed and is currently the president of Alpha Tau Omega, will officially assume the post after spring rush in February.

Before a packed crowd of about 1,000 people at the Convention Center, University and city officials laid out a new vision for developing one of Philadelphia's most underutilized assets: its waterfront. PennPraxis executive director Harris Steinberg, Mayor John Street and City Councilman Frank DiCicco promised to bring sanity back to developing the Delaware River.

Two males unaffiliated with the University were robbed last week, Division of Public Safety officials said. Two male suspects approached the victims at about 6:30 p.m. on Nov. 9 on the 3900 block of Spruce Street and demanded money. The offenders then took the phones of both complainants and fled in an unknown direction.

With female presidents now comprising half of the Ivy League's leadership, it's getting hard to come out on top. Just look at Penn President Amy Gutmann.

Jonathan Greenblatt wants to change the world, one bottle of water at a time. In his keynote speech for the sixth annual Integrity Week, the co-founder of Ethos Water discussed how his company came to be and its continued mission to provide the world's children with clean drinking water.

The Penn women's squash team got a whiff of success last season - now it's hungry for more. With seven of nine starters returning, the Quakers will combine talent and experience in an attempt to navigate the difficult Ivy League schedule. Co-captain Lauralynn Drury knows an arduous task lies ahead.

The School of Engineering and Applied Science's design department just got $70 million richer. The department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics earned a $70 million design-technology package from the Partners for the Advancement of Collaborative Engineering Education organization yesterday morning.

As third-year Howard coach Gil Jackson goes up against his former team this weekend, even he may be surprised at how soon his return to the Palestra has come. The 16-year Penn assistant coach, who came to the program with Fran Dunphy in 1989, won nine Ivy championships and left for the Bison's head job after the 2004-05 season.

Theft Nov. 9 - A male employee reported that a laptop was taken at about 3:45 p.m. from an unsecured office at the McNeil Building, located at 3718 Locust Walk. Nov. 9 - A male student reported that at about 5:30 p.m., an unknown suspect removed his bike, secured with a cable lock, from Huntsman Hall, located at 3730 Spruce St.

What makes you you? What gives a city like Philadelphia its identity? Those were the questions posed last night at the official launch of the Franklin Institute's newest exhibit, "Identity: An Exhibition of You." To kick off the event, mayor-elect Michael Nutter gave a keynote address in the museum's historic Franklin Hall about "The Identity of the New Philadelphia," one of the first speeches he has given since he was elected Nov.

Rafael Nadal, consider yourself challenged. Nadal may be the best in the world on clay, but Barney Tanfield, the assistant pro at the Racquet Club of Philadelphia on 16th Street, thinks he might have a harder time on the unforgiving slate of court tennis.

According to one journalist, Israel is farther from achieving peace with its neighbors than ever before. Jerusalem Post reporter Herb Keinon spoke with students last night at Hillel about current affairs in Israel and the Middle East, emphasizing the upcoming Annapolis Summit, a U.

Most people wouldn't mention "ag school" and "Ivy League" in the same breath. This is probably because along with Penn, everyone forgets about that school up in Ithaca. Nonetheless, I was surprised to learn recently that Yale did, indeed, have an ag program of sorts - a food-and-agriculture concentration within their environmental-studies department.

It wasn't a smooth transition from the field to the sidelines.Former Penn wide receiver Matt Carre's first season as a coach was rough. But even after starting the season 0-9, Carre tried to stay positive as he took the field as King's College intern assistant coach for the team's final game of the year last Saturday.