After dealing with GREs and job recruiters, students who graduate from Williams College will now have one less post-graduation concern. Williams, one of the top liberal-arts colleges in the country, announced earlier this month that it is replacing all loans with grants for students applying for financial aid.

The University will implement a series of initiatives to supplement security on and around campus, officials announced in an e-mail to the University community late Thursday night. The new measures include additional police overtime hours, increased lighting, new security cameras and three new transit stops on the boundaries of campus.

Do you know what you're uploading? When Penn launched Ruckus at the beginning of last year, the University was aiming to stop students from illegally downloading. But are students actually aware of the dangers of illegal uploading? Not really, officials at the University of Michigan say.

The Graduate and Professional Students Assembly has been working with the University over the past two years to create more on-campus housing for graduate students, but there may not be a point. With a nominal stipend and a more established group of friends, many graduate students say living on campus is simply not worth the convenience of being closer to classes.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Pizza was a little different yesterday at Kings Court/English College House. On the standard college staple, the cheese, pepperoni and sausage were replaced with non-dairy products like soy cheese, soy meat and layers of vegetables. That dish was part of the dining hall's bi-annual entirely vegan dinner last night, in celebration of College Veg Pledge Day.

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.

Four days until Caturday. That's Saturday for those who haven't yet caught on to the latest phenomenon to dominate the Internet and student lexicon - LOLcats. That's LOL for "laugh out loud." LOLcats are funny pictures of cats with captions attributed to them.

By 2010, a new fitness center, three full-length fields, Palestra Green, 12 additional tennis courts and a new softball stadium will invigorate the eastern edge of Penn's campus. That's only the beginning of Penn's three-phase facilities campaign, though.