Newly-published research findings from around Penn.

¨I encourage everyone to become involved in the political process. I just remind Republicans that voting day is always on Wednesday,¨ Democrat assemblyman Raj Mukherji said at an on-campus event Monday.

WeHUB Messenger, a start-up messaging app founded by Wharton MBA alumnus Hagen Lee , aims to give users greater control over their conversations. Eleven of the app's main features are pending patent approval. Hagen said that the app aims to give users the ability to “express emotion in its purest form.” It officially launched in mid-October, and WeHUB hosted a Penn scavenger hunt with clues given through the app from Oct.

Normandy, Iwo Jima, Pusan, Khe Sanh, Fallujah, Kamdesh. For some, these names might not mean much. Maybe they have seen them in history books or have heard the names before. Yet for those who fought, those names and many others are forever branded in their memories. They recall the desperation and the sounds of battle, and most of all, those they fought beside. It is a brotherhood that runs deeper than any fraternity, one that traverses time and location. It is a bond forged in blood and fire.

We’ve lost 22 soldiers today, but not on a conventional battlefield. Instead, that is the number of US military veterans that the Veterans Administration estimates die by suicide every day.

Luckily enough, after three years of immersion in “Penn culture,” I have good news to share with any worried underclassmen or compassionate, concerned outsiders who’d like to hear it. I am, in fact, capable of occupying myself with activities that will never make it onto my resume, I have never justified the time I’ve spent eating a meal with a friend by calling it networking and Fear Of Missing Sleep consistently trumps Fear Of Missing Out on my list of concerns.

Hannah Rosenfeld is a College sophomore from Tokyo.

A twenty-something Colorado Avalanche fan carried his equipment bag into Penn's Class of 1923 Arena for his weekly Monday open hockey session, only to find out quickly that he would be forced to stay in the stands. The reason? His favorite hockey team was occupying the ice.

The Family Resource Center has been a resource for Penn's graduate community since it was founded four years ago.

Level of crime in October this year remained largely the same as last year, while there is a decrease of crime against persons and an increase of crime against property in terms of this calender year compared to last calender year. This October saw a great decrease in retail theft, dropping down to one from last year's six.

Here's what going on around the Ivies this week.

While professor Kenneth Goldsmith's new course "Wasting Time on the Internet" will use digital distraction to inspire students’ creative writing.

The Nominations and Election Committee is having special elections for a new Undergraduate Assembly representative.

When Cesar finishes his shift at the Inn at Penn each afternoon, he finds his Nisan Pathfinder and begins his drive home.

It was Maureen Rush’s fifth week on the job as a Philadelphia police officer, and she was already in a standoff with a drug addict.

The collaboration has introduced programs such as Musicians on Call and Free at Noon

Conservative behavior might have yielded an advantage in more primitive times, but today, it lends itself too easily to xenophobia, negotiation through brute force and the persecution of religious minorities.