The Committee on Manufacturer Responsibility will make a recommendation this Spring regarding Penn’s contract with Adidas, which has been accused of not paying severance benefits to former workers of the PT Kizone factory in Indonesia.

The Wharton School announced in October of last year that 2001 graduate Sukanto Tanoto, along with 1960 graduate Alvin V. Shoemaker, was the recipient of the Wharton Dean’s Medal, one of the highest honors presented by Wharton. But Tanoto’s companies are affiliated with rainforest destruction and tax evasion.

The sequestration cuts set to happen this Friday would cut $40 million in federal research funds for Penn Medicine and may affect a generation of researchers.

In case you’re not one of Adam Aron’s more than 28,000 Twitter followers, the Philadlephia 76ers CEO and co-owner is not one to shy away from a challenge.

After a round of discussion last week, the official budget now proposes to give the Student Activities Council $1,065,790.13 —around a 6.5 percent increase from last year.

During Koop’s time as surgeon general, he was best known for his campaign against smoking. He also wrote an educational paper during this time about HIV and AIDS, when the disease was first subjected to public controversy.

The summer before his freshman year at The College of New Jersey, sophomore Ryan Dolan watched the movie “Limitless” on his flight down to Hawaii for vacation, and was inspired to create a real-life version of the pill that grants Bradley Cooper’s character superhuman power and focus.

Houston Hall has a complex recycling operation and has evolved over the years.

Since 2011, nine out of a total of 12 patients have responded successfully to the treatment, for which June — the Director of the Translational Research Program and the Richard W. Vague Professor in Immunotherapy in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the Perelman School of Medicine — was awarded first place in Men’s Health magazine’s “2012 Heroes of Health and Fitness.”

Penn Timebank to allow students and faculty to exchange services with each other.

There is currently no set timeline for launching the technology to the general Penn community, but the estimate is that it will take up to five years.

On Monday, the Wharton School and Cisco Systems, Inc. jointly unveiled for the first time the new “Cisco Connected Classroom” in Huntsman Hall with a live demonstration of the telepresence technology.

This research is groundbreaking both because it is the first to demonstrate that the Jagged-1 protein can assist in the healing process of human bones and provides insight into possible treatments for rare metabolic condition called Alagille syndrome.

Convergencias 2013 — an annual conference organized this year by the student group Mex@Penn — brought together a host of Mexican academics, professionals and students to have a dialogue on Mexico’s current situation and place in history.

PennBoard is an online platform for students and on-campus groups to post event information and announcements online. The events are arranged on a calendar, which users can navigate to view events by date.

On March 14, SPEC-TRUM will be bringing R&B artist Melanie Fiona and emerging rapper Future.

Cradle to Grave — a program started in 2006 by two Penn graduates — has taught thousands of inner-city Philadelphia youth about the impact of gun violence.