The containment period has been extended until June 2011, with a targeted $100 million in “cost avoidance."

Over a hundred fraternity members participated in a forum on Tuesday night about the social policies of the Greek community, which dealt with issues such as alcohol, insurance and peer pressure.

This past weekend marked the transition period between the old CHAC board and the new. After a weekend retreat during which the new executive board hashed out its goals, CHAC is back at Penn and more ambitious than ever before, according to co-chair Nicole Dillard.

The Student Committee on Undergraduate Education’s 2010 White Paper on Undergraduate Education is one of the most important documents to come out of student government.

Columbia went 6-8 in non-conference play before losing to defending Ivy League champion Cornell twice this month.

The Undergraduate Assembly unanimously passed a resolution urging Wharton to count American Sign Language courses toward the foreign-language requirement. Wharton should listen.

Princeton’s 9-5 non-conference showing has certainly put it on the right track toward the Ivy title.

Cornell opened its quest for a third straight Ivy title with a statement: the road to the Ivy basketball championship still goes through Ithaca, N.Y.

Penn can find ways to ease the burden caused by less NIH funding in the upcoming fiscal year.

In the final home game of their careers in front of their biggest crowd of the season, emotional seniors led W. Squash to a victory over rival Princeton.

On Jan. 12, eight third-year Penn Law students traveled to Washington, D.C., to assist attorney Karl Hays in defending Jacquelyn Abbott, the defendant in an international custody case, before the U.S. Supreme Court.

Penning will receive the 2010 Distinguished Service Award from the National Postdoctoral Association at their annual conference, held from Mar. 12-14 in Philadelphia.

Winner of the urbanSHED Competition, first-year Design student Young-Hwan Choi’s project, “Urban Umbrella,” presents a sleek, environmentally friendly alternative to urban sheds, structures that are legally mandated in New York City to keep pedestrians safe from falling debris in construction sites.

A medical team from the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania arrived in Haiti on Monday to assist the nonprofit organization Partners in Health with surgical procedures.

Members of the Center for High Impact Philanthropy, housed at the School of Social Policy and Practice, recognized growing uncertainty over the legitimacy of philanthropic organizations and started giving advice on their blog.

The event aimed to create a support network for those interested in pledging their hair to Locks of Love, an organization that uses donated hair to create wigs for children who have lost their hair due to severe illness.

For researchers at Penn and other institutions, the new ethics rules and budget to be announced by National Institutes of Health Director Francis Collins may have an impact on both current and future research.