UMOJA — the umbrella organization for black student groups at Penn — recently elected College junior Aya Saed as its new planning and facilitating chair.

An anonymous $16.3 million donation establishes the Neuroscience of Behavior Initiative, which will fund faculty recruitment and interdisciplinary research.

Last week — for the second time ever — Furda contributed a post on The New York Times’ “The Choice” blog, which provides news stories and advice to college applicants and their families.

The city saw 20.7 homicides per 100,000 residents in 2011, with Chicago following closely with 15.7.

Spring sorority recruitment began Tuesday evening in Irvine Auditorium with the recruitment chairs encouraging Potential New Members to look at the deeper values of the sorority houses.

Launched near the end of 2011 by several members of the Penn community, Resolution ’12 is an initiative that encourages people to make New Year’s resolutions to benefit others. VIDEO: Word on the Walk

This morning, the Philadelphia municipal court closed the cases related College junior Moshe Bitterman and College sophomore Emma Johnson’s arrests at Occupy Philadelphia on Nov. 30.

The New Hampshire Republican primary unfolded as expected on Tuesday night, with former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney coming in first, garnering 39.3 percent of the vote.

Harvest Seasonal Grill & Wine Bar will be moving into the vacant spot previously held by Marathon Grill and MarBar, which closed last May. The new restaurant, set to open in June, will feature an upscale-casual environment with a wine bar on the second level.

When stepping onto the sixth floor of Van Pelt-Dietrich Library today, one might feel as if it were the lobby of a modern hotel, rather than the home of more than 350,000 rare books. Near the end of 2011, construction crews completed the first phase of renovations for the Rare Book and Manuscript Library on the sixth floor of Van Pelt.

Even before its arrival on campus, the national Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions conference — to be held at Penn in February — is generating heated debate about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Penn’s cancer research institute is suing their former scientific director for $1 billion on charges of stealing intellectual property.

Crime log for the week of Dec. 30 – Jan. 5

Last Friday, the Archdiocese of Philadelphia announced that 45 elementary schools and four high schools in the region will close for the 2012-13 school year.

A student-created website that is increasingly rivaling Blackboard in the classroom has received a $5 million investment for its future operations.

Maintenance crews have been working since Wednesday night to contain flooding in Harrison College House. STUDENT-SUBMITTED VIDEO: Flooding at Harrison College House

On Tuesday, the Superior Court of Pennsylvania overturned an attempted prostitution conviction of former College of Liberal and Professional Studies student Susan Finkelstein, who allegedly offered sex for World Series tickets.