As you exit the elevators on the newly renovated sixth floor of Van Pelt Library, Benjamin Franklin’s writing desk and several of his prized possessions — including his cufflinks and a silver spoon — are displayed in a glass case on your right.

The Nominations & Elections Committee held internal elections earlier this month to determine the next executive board. The Daily Pennsylvanian sat down with College junior Frank Colleluori, the newly elected NEC chair, to discuss his goals for improving the institution in the next year.

On Sunday in the Bodek Lounge of Houston Hall, about 150 people turned out for a talk with the Asian-American rapper on his career and Hong Kong heritage. The event was hosted by the Hong Kong Students Association and the Chinese Students’ Association.

The Student Activities Council announced its budget for the coming school year Thursday evening to a crowd of student group treasurers.

A new and improved Gia Pronto will be opening today, just a few spaces down from the original store. While the new Gia Pronto was supposed to open in the beginning of the year, numerous construction delays set the opening date back.

Engineering seniors Cynthia Mai, Eric Berdinis and Jeff Kiske have designed a video billboard which tailors the advertisements it displays to the people walking by based on their age, gender, glasses and facial hair.

While hundreds of students walked by with their hands glued to their phones Saturday, others chose to [dis]connect for a picnic with their friends on College Green.

For some Korean international students at Penn, the physical distance between the United States and the Korean Peninsula has not diminished the potential effects these tensions can have on their immediate futures.

Princeton announced Sunday afternoon that Christopher Eisgruber, the school’s current provost, will serve as its next president.

On Friday, Penn celebrated its Making History campaign with Time to Shine — an event held in Penn Park honoring the $4.3 billion raised from the University’s campaign. Over 17,000 people signed up for Friday’s celebration.

As the University prepared to celebrate “Making History” at Penn Park, security guards rallied on Shoemaker Green to protest for a contract with AlliedBarton.

Over 25 different booths fed the curiosity of people with beer, ice cream, liquid nitrogen-dipped marshmallows and a healthy dose of science at the sold-out Philadelphia Science Festival kick-off party yesterday night.

Workers at Penn Hillel’s Falk Dining Commons might obtain official union recognition by the end of the semester.

On the vacant corner of 43rd and Sansom streets, Apartments at Penn, a local real estate company that specializes in student housing, plans to construct a 31-unit housing complex with one- and two-bedroom apartments.

Take look at the new study spaces, conference room and rare books library. The renovations took over two years.

Though lifting weights is physically taxing, it is also mentally strenuous — especially when lifters attempt to push themselves to the limits of their capabilities.

See what went down at peer schools this week.