West Philadelphia resident Latisha Turnage needed help. At 26, she had no job, no house, no education and no prospects. Her mother Tracy told her to go to a small office building at 61st Street and Osage Avenue, the local home of National Student Partnerships .

The topic of Friday afternoon's seminar was ovarian cancer, but at the heart was an interest in improving women's knowledge of their health. The seminar was the first in a series hosted by the Women's Resource Center, which for the last year has offered health services and programs designed specifically for women at Pennsylvania Hospital, part of the University Health System.

A specialized focus on diversified investments and international markets has helped the University's endowment swell to $6.6 billion, a figure that was announced at last Thursday's Board of Trustees meeting.

West Philadelphia High School's rap sheet last spring included threats to teachers, assaults on at least 18 faculty members and fires set in the hallways. So it may not be a surprise that, once again, West Philadelphia High has landed on the annual list of Pennsylvania's "persistently dangerous" schools, joining 11 other Philadelphia schools and giving pause for concern among Penn officials.

Golden ornaments and semi-precious stones fill the second-floor Dietrich Gallery at the University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, where the "River of Gold: Precolumbian Treasures from Sitio Conte" exhibit is now on display.

Drexel University is set to seriously spruce up its library -and through a Web site, nonetheless. After receiving a grant of over $600,000 this month, Drexel has announced that it will turn the Internet Public Library - currently the largest free online collection and reference service accessible to anyone with the Internet - into an even more comprehensive online learning community.

As Penn's Alex Fairman jumped for the ball around midfield in the second half, he received a jarring blow to his stomach from a Lehigh player, leaving him lying on the field gasping for breath. It was just that kind of soccer game at Rhodes Field Saturday, where Penn tied Lehigh 1-1.

Greek leaders at Penn are trying to make sorority life a bit less expensive. This semester, the Panhellenic Council, which oversees all sororities on campus, is offering two $200 scholarships to sorority members who joined a chapter last year. Next semester, anyone who is interested in rushing a sorority will be eligible to apply for the dues scholarship.

WILMINGTON, Del. - Wharton undergraduate Irina Malinovskaya was outside the apartment where Irina Zlotnikov was bludgeoned to death but did not enter the building, Malinovskaya admitted in a taped police interrogation shown in court Friday. In an interview with Det.

The creativity behind the posters, chalking and flyers of this semester's freshmen student-government campaigns is certainly turning heads across campus.

The recently restructured graduate student government is raring to get its constituents more connected to Penn. The Graduate and Professional Student Assembly has emerged from a major organizational makeover and is now eager to promote interdisciplinary cooperation among all 10 graduate schools represented by GAPSA and to spearhead new campus initiatives.

Mercyhurst Preparatory School, in Erie, Pa., has set up a fund in memory of College sophomore Anne Ryan, who died on Sept. 9 from meningitis. The fund, named the Anne Ryan Mission Fund, will help pay for religious community-service trips to Baltimore, Md.

Playboy - naked women, Hugh Hefner and, now, social networking. Playboy U, the new Web site backed by the storied men's magazine of the same name, launched to the public last month, promising parties, fun and - surprisingly - no nudity. The site, which is only open to college students, is much like Facebook, with student profiles that include user-generated photos, videos and blogs.

Accessible and appealing may not be the most expected words for describing a celebrated physicist's work. But those words were used by Publisher's Weekly to describe Physics professor Gino Segre's latest book, Faust In Copenhagen: A Struggle For the Soul of Physics.

Penn's Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Center held its 25-year anniversary celebration yesterday afternoon, honoring both the center's success and respected director Robert Schoenberg. About 100 students and faculty members mingled and ate hors d'oeuevres in the center's new lounge inside the Carriage House as they celebrated the efforts of one of nation's oldest and most active LGBT centers.

Penn announced an impressive 20.2 percent return on its endowment investments for the fiscal year that ended on June 30, officials announced yesterday at a Board of Trustees meeting.

Some day soon, city residents taking a stroll along the Delaware River won't be confronted with abandoned, burned-out factories, but with urban parks surrounded by restaurants, rowhomes and shopping instead. At least, that's the plan put forward yesterday by Penn Praxis.