“It offers a green way for students to travel into the city and to civically engage with different community service options,” College senior Christopher Cruz said.

On Thursday night, the Alice Paul Center & The Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies Program held a discussion outlining pertinent issues in the upcoming elections.

Though Pennsylvania courts issued an injunction to the voter ID law this Tuesday, the Civic House hosted a panel discussion of the law as part of its “Think About It” initiative Thursday night.

This weekend, Penn will host the second annual Collegiate Alliance for Immigration Reform Summit.

“Bold Ambitions: The Campaign for Penn Law,” officially announced in 2006, has exceeded expectations by $5 million.

Leder and his business partner met Romney when the candidate was at Bain Capital and they were at Lehman Brothers.

At the Kod*lab — a subsidiary of the General Robotics, Automation, Sensing and Perception Laboratory — students and researchers apply their skills to create dynamic and dexterous robots.

Federal Communications Commission Chair Julius Genachowski spoke in Huntsman Hall on Thursday about his agency’s work in mobile communications.

Daphne Koller, co-founder and CEO of the free online course provider Coursera, hopes to bring her company into a global context.

From pursuing the candidate in a motorboat to lingering in a Las Vegas casino awaiting his arrival at a fundraiser, Parker and her press team never witness a dull moment.

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Guest lecturer John Seager entered the field of population control because his old boss fired him more than a decade ago. And yesterday, Seager came to speak at Penn because the same guy invited him back.

FactCheck’s primary aim is to provide information to voters rather than to force candidates to change their rhetoric.

David Corn spoke at the Kelly Writer’s House as part of the Povich Fund for Journalism Programs talk series. He delivered a speech entitled “Campaign 2012: Are the Lies Winning?”

The voter turnout for the run-off election was 36.3 percent, according to NEC Chair and Engineering and Wharton senior Alec Miller.

A Penn Integrates Knowledge preceptorial allowed Dorothy Roberts, Penn’s newest PIK professor, to share her journey with 40 students. With her recent appointment as Penn’s 14th PIK professor, Roberts looks to enrich her interdisciplinary work in law and sociology in the university.