The University Board of Trustees nominated 1981 Law school alumnus David Cohen to replace James Riepe as chairman of the board beginning in Nov. 2009. Riepe, senior advisor and retired vice chairman of investment firm the T. Rowe Price Group, has been chairman of the board since 1999.

Though the terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India last week were thousands of miles away, for some students, they hit close to home. And for some, the Thanksgiving break meant they were in Mumbai on Wednesday when a group of terrorists stormed the Taj Mahal and Oberoi Trident hotels, the popular Café Leopold and a highly c

By JIN PYUO LEE Contributing Writer gamail@dailypennsylvanian.com This past summer, New York Times columnist David Brooks wrote that education is the biggest issue facing the country today. And yesterday afternoon, Penn president Amy Gutmann echoed this view in a conversation with the students in Education, Proxy-Connection: keep-alive Cache-Control: max-age=0 lture and Society, a Graduate

"How do you maintain creativity when you're bailing out everyone?" So asked Penn alumnus and Utah Governor Jon M. Huntsman, Jr. yesterday in light of the financial crisis. Huntsman led a town-hall style meeting with students from the Huntsman Program - which was named after his father - in Vance Hall during a visit to Penn.

Thanksgiving: is there any holiday more quintessentially American? Every year on the last Thursday of November, families sit down to turkey, pumpkin pie and presumably to give thanks. While specifics vary by family and region -- marshmallows on the sweet potatoes? Football or parade? - the overwhelming majority of Americans seem to follow a set pattern of reuniting with family and overeating.

With soaring interest in two main programs and a new batch of winners for one of them, Wharton Entrepreneurial Programs is having the best week ever. WEP, a hub of entrepreneurial resources affiliated with Wharton but available to all Penn students, supports a range of programs and projects that encourage students to transform thei

For most Penn students, getting up for a 9 a.m. class is tough. But some students who work in the high rises start their day even earlier, sometimes waking up for a shift that starts at 3 a.m. In Rodin, Harrison and Harnwell college houses, students who work at the information centers sometimes take shifts starting at 2 a.

Burglary Nov. 16 - A female student, 18, reported that her unsecured residence in English House was burglarized at 11 p.m.

Center City may be getting brighter - but not everyone is happy about it. Some groups in the city anticipate negative effects of Commercial Entertainment District zoning, which lifts some parking constraints and allows for rooftop, revolving, electronic or flashing signs.

The Penn Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology is the latest to be affected by the financial crisis. Museum director Richard Hodges announced in a memo last Friday that the museum would discontinue 18 "research specialist" positions that have been part of the curatorial departments and the Museum Applied Science Center for Archaeology, in addition to disbanding the MASCA division as a whole.

Medical Ethics and History and Sociology of Science professor Jonathan Moreno was named to President-elect Barack Obama's transition team. Moreno will serve as a co-leader for the Department of Health and Human Services review team, which will examine the department as a whole in order to provide incoming employees with necessary information.

Even though many students are qualified to enroll in postsecondary schools, they may decide not to earn a college degree. In a recent study conducted by the Institute for Higher Education Policy and supported by The Education Resource Institute, students and guidance counselors cited the high price of college tuition and insufficient financial-aid opportunities as the main reasons many students choose not to enroll in college.

A fire at the Pi Kappa Phi fraternity house early yesterday morning was caused by an electrical overload, according to the Division of Public Safety. The fraternity house, located at 4040 Walnut St., was evacuated at about 3:30 a.m. when brothers reported seeing smoke billowing from a second-floor bedroom.

Thanksgiving isn't until tomorrow, but Penn Medicine is already in the spirit of giving. Last night, Penn Med unveiled the Clyde F. Barker Transplant House, a "home away from home" for transplant patients' families during and after transplant surgeries. "The transplant is one of the most graphic acts of giving," said Ralph Muller, chief executive officer of the University of Pennsylvania Health System.

Penn students may soon find they have a lot more in common with their grandmothers. Starting next semester, students will be able to rent small shopping carts - commonly known as "granny carts" - and canvas bags from Harrison College House as part of the pilot program of a new Undergraduate Assembly initiative headed by the Sustainability, Safety and Facilities Committee.

About five years ago, then-College junior Carlos Rivera-Anaya proposed a program that offered a completely student-led dialogue on Latino issues with scholars, politicians, musicians and professors. The program - at the time called the Latino Dialogue Institute Series - eventually became Penn's only entirely student-run course, the Latino Dialogue Institute, which is offered every spring.

Wharton sophomore Giresh Mirpuri isn't a serious gambler, but he visits Atlantic City about twice a month to bet $25 to $50 at its casinos. But if a casino is installed in Center City, as might happen next year, he won't have to make that commute anymore.