Economics professor and accused murderer Rafael Robb plans to use surveillance-camera footage at several locations he visited the morning his wife was killed in order to provide an alibi at his November trial, according to court papers filed Friday. In the papers, defense attorney Frank DeSimone outlines Robb's activities on the morning of Dec.

A 41-year-old woman not affiliated with the University was robbed Sunday near the intersection of 39th and Market streets, Philadelphia Police officials said yesterday.

According to the rhetoric of some of the Western world's most visible political leaders, poverty and lack of education are to blame for terrorism. But when Princeton economist Alan Krueger came to the Penn Bookstore last night to promote his new book, What Makes a Terrorist, he told an audience of 22 people that both associations were false.

Universities usually don't hold black-tie galas in empty parking lots. But that's exactly where hundreds of Penn alumni will be celebrating the kick-off of Penn's multi-billion dollar Capital Campaign this Saturday.

This Saturday, Penn will launch the public phase of its five-year capital campaign with a celebration on College Green and a highly anticipated public declaration of financial goals.

Penn Medical School's Department of Dermatology was ranked as the number-one academic dermatology program, according to a report published this month in The Dermatology Online Journal. This report is the first to rank dermatology programs based on academic achievement.

Those can't-live-without-'em college essentials - Word, Excel and Outlook - are now available for almost half of what Penn's Computer Connection charges. The promotion, available at Microsoft's Web site theultimatesteal.com, offers the Microsoft Office software for $59.

Former Neurosurgery professor Tracy McIntosh will proceed with his court-mandated resentencing for a 2002 sexual assault, and could potentially face time in state prison for the crime. McIntosh and his lawyer, Joel Trigiani, announced the decision Friday in the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas.

WILMINGTON, Del. - Contradictions posed by previous sworn statements played a key role yesterday as the defense once again tried to discredit Robert Bondar, the ex-boyfriend of Wharton undergraduate Irina Malinovskaya. Malinovskaya is on trial for the third time for allegedly bludgeoning Bondar's then-girlfriend, Irina Zlotnikov, to death in Dec.

The Board of Trustees is the University's highest governing body, but some trustees are still in the dark about the reasons behind the departure of former Dean of Admissions Lee Stetson. About half of the trustees who spoke to The Daily Pennsylvanian said they had not been told why Stetson abruptly resigned in late August.

While teaching Marketing 101 last fall, Wharton professors Keith Niedermeier and Peter Fader made a bet: They challenged each other to create Facebook profiles and see who would have more friends by the end of the semester. But there was one rule: neither professor could make any friend requests.

NewCourtland Elder Services, a Philadelphia-based company that addresses the needs of the city's elderly population, recently donated $5 million to endow and name the Nursing School's NewCourtland Center for Transitions and Health.

The University's handling of the departure of former Dean of Admissions Lee Stetson may be doing Penn more harm than good, crisis-management experts say.

Imagine what would happen if all the rules of the library - no speaking, shouting or running - were broken, and the books began reading themselves aloud. Just that happened last night in the Kelly Writers House's Art Cafe during "Suddenly Everyone Began Reading Aloud," a project by College senior Matthew Abess.

Economics professor and accused murderer Rafael Robb plans to use surveillance-camera footage at several locations that he visited the morning his wife was killed in order to provide an alibi defense at his November trial, according to court papers filed Friday.

To describe the inner workings of the underground economy that exist in many urban communities, Columbia professor Sudhir Venkatesh told a story at the 23rd annual public lecture hosted by the Urban Studies Department. Venkatesh, an ethnographer of life in urban neighborhoods, conducted his research on the intricacies of the underground economy in Brownsville, Chicago, an extremely poor and predominantly African American community.

Former Neurosurgery professor Tracy McIntosh will proceed with his court-mandated resentencing for a 2002 sexual assault. McIntosh and his lawyer, Joel Trigiani, announced the decision Friday morning in the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas. McIntosh's other option was to try to withdraw his original no-contest plea and go to trial.