This year’s Skimmer will offer free hot air balloon rides to sophomores and juniors.

Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter and Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey unveiled a five-year crime plan for the city of Philadelphia — including the introduction of horseback police — at the end of last month.

The memorial was attended by students from all corners of the world who felt the reverberations of that Tuesday morning.

On Aug. 31, Congressman Chaka Fattah (D-Pa.) announced that the National Science Foundation was awarding five grants totaling $1,907,120 to fund three research projects at Penn and two at Drexel University.

To commemorate the tragic events of Sept. 11, 2001, Art History professor David Brownlee presented his lecture “Making a Monument: The Fall and Rise of the World Trade Center” at the Penn Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.

On Sept. 1, UniEats launched at Columbia and Northwestern and on Jan. 1 it will reach Cornell University, Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

The Vet School hosted its second working dog conference last week, followed by a tribute in honor of the search and rescue dogs who served in the aftermath of 9/11.

The Penn Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology hosted “Cato: A Tragedy,” a dramatic reading of scenes from Joseph Addison’s 18th-century play, as part of its commemoration of the 10th anniversary of Sept. 11, followed by a panel discussion.

Some religious groups hosted events commemorating 9/11, while others joined several student organizations in issuing a joint statement Sunday night in Houston Hall.

A female Penn student reported that an unknown male grabbed her and “touched her in an inappropriate manner” last night at about 12:45 a.m. nearby Gregory College House, according to the Division of Public Safety.

Philadelphia Mayor and 1979 Wharton graduate Michael Nutter has extended the weekend curfew once again to discourage violent flash mobs.

While the rest of the world becomes a digital open book, Penn’s students seem to be bucking the trend.

One week after his graduation from Penn, Amit Friedlander was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma — a diagnosis Friedlander thinks could be linked to the carcinogens he was exposed to five years earlier on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001.

Ameena Ghaffar-Kucher began in 2004 a study of working-class Pakistani-American immigrants in New York City — but her focus shifted quickly to 9/11’s influence.

This summer, 14 Penn students spent two weeks at the Agahozo-Shalom Youth Village confronting the effects of the Rwandan genocide — and witnessing the faith and optimism of the orphans left in its wake.

Ten years after the attacks that changed the world, some of Penn’s war veterans are only just returning to civilian life.

Vice president for Facilities and Real Estate Services, Anne Papageorge oversaw the design of the approximately $1 billion 9/11 memorial in New York, which is scheduled to open this Sunday.