Mehta was chosen in hopes that his experience will impart to students “different forms of spirituality, different expressions of the moral life,” Chaplain Chaz Howard said.

Several Penn students are showing their passion for Obama by working to get him re-elected.

The hotel is providing a special rate for the busiest weekend of the year — $249 per night instead of the usual $259-299.

The top Google hits for “Amy Gutmann” may return the familiar face of Penn’s president, but further down is another President Amy Gutmann — owner and manager of the Canine University of Ohio. Like most universities, the school consists of students, professors and administrators.

The panel is also meant to commemorate the program’s 10th anniversary. For the past 10 years, Penn Praxis has served to bring together students, faculty and other communities through design.

The office, which opened May 2, is Obama’s sixth location in Philadelphia, highlighting the importance of the city in the 2012 presidential race.

Several professors are in the process of revising their curricula or creating new ones for fall semester courses — from Political Science to journalistic writing and communication studies — that will center around the election.

Graduating seniors will miss out on the two new upscale restaurants coming to campus because they will now open later than expected. Doc Magrogan’s Oyster House is slated to open in June, while Harvest Seasonal Grill & Wine Bar plans to open in mid-August.

The School of Arts and Sciences Computing Department announced in February that email accounts will switch to Gmail from Microsoft’s Windows Live Hotmail.

The white male suspect many have come to know as the “Green Line robber” was detained by Philadelphia Police and has confessed to all four armed robberies.

Police have detained a “person of interest” who they think might be connected to the string of robberies at gunpoint in the past two weeks.

Penn has voted to extend University President Amy Gutmann’s contract for five years, the Board of Trustees announced in a statement Tuesday morning.

A UPennAlert was issued at 10:30 p.m. Sunday evening in response to a gunpoint robbery at Chipotle at 3925 Walnut St.

Despite a loss to Dartmouth, the Quakers earned an at-large bid to the NCAA tournament and will take on No. 6 Loyola.

As Penn softball ace Alexis Borden churned out inning after inning of flawless pitching, nearly everyone in attendance began to realize that she was approaching a hallowed feat: the perfect game.

MAYA 2012: Lord of Time is trying to answer this question. The world premiere exhibit opened at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology on Saturday with a ribbon cutting ceremony, lectures and lunch.

Behind hat tricks from Meredith Cain and Courtney Tomchik, the Quakers beat Harvard, 9-5, in the semifinals of the Ivy League tournament. They will play Dartmouth Sunday for the championship and NCAA tournament berth.