Resolution ’12 has nearly 100 submissions of service-driven New Year’s resolutions. The project builds on last year’s Resolution ’11, started by University Chaplain Chaz Howard and two friends.

A Kaplan Test Prep study found that thirty-seven percent of law schools admissions officers check an applicant’s Facebook profile and forty-one percent search an applicant on Google.

The Assembly of International Students sponsored a Date Auction at Smokey Joe’s on Friday night. The event raised money for Project H.O.M.E., a local charity.

Over 100 students gathered in the Hall of Flags Friday night to take part in a game show organized by co-ed service fraternity Alphia Phi Omega. The event raised $700 for Doctors Without Borders.

Thursday night, members from the Dining Philosophers Computer Science interest group and Wharton Entrepreneurship Club held their first “HackerTrails” class, an entirely student-run series designed to help students learn the basics of HTML, CSS, Javascript and other computer fundamentals.

Despite glitches in course listings which led the student-run website — which lists professor and course ratings — to be suspended last week, Penn Course Review was up and running on Tuesday.

While protesters continued the efforts of the Occupy Philadelphia movement at City Hall, a panel of four addressed approximately 60 students Thursday night in the ARCH building to discuss one of the leading sources of national debate — urban poverty.

While Pennsylvania State University is more than 150 miles away from Philadelphia, its Board of Trustees’ decision to fire football coach Joe Paterno and President Graham Spanier has resonated here at Penn.

Penn received 4,510 early-decision applications this fall, a 1.3-percent decrease from last year’s total of 4,571 applications. INTERACTIVE: Early applications to Penn 2006-2012

The re-election of Philadelphia Mayor and 1979 Wharton graduate Michael Nutter means another four years of positive relationships between Penn the city, administrators and students agree.

From last fall to this spring, the Nursing School collaborated with local Sayre High School and Bernett Johnson Sayre Health Center to implement a dancing program — Dance for Health — for children ages 4 to 12.

Last week, some students were unexpectedly unable to vote in Hillel elections as a result of a change in voting eligibility.

Occupy Philadelphia is intent on staying put in front of City Hall through the winter — meaning that the protest movement is going to have to find a way to combat the falling temperatures.

Provost Vince Price is currently in the process of making a final decision on adopting an academic calendar proposal that would require the 2013-14 school year to begin earlier than it has in decades.

On Thursday, United States District Judge Ronald Buckwalter resentenced former Pennsylvania State Sen. Vince Fumo to 61 months in prison — an increase of six months from his previous sentence, well below what prosecutors were hoping for. TIMELINE: Fumo case

Anthropology professor Janet Monge spoke to a crowd of 150 Wednesday night at the Penn Museum. Monge discussed Samuel Morton’s large collection of skulls.

Falling Whistles, an advocacy group, spoke about conflict in the Congo in Steinberg-Dietrich Hall Wednesday night. Group member Yves Muya escaped the conflict with his family at a young age