In an abrupt turn, Dean of Admissions Lee Stetson has announced that he has resigned from his post, effective immediately. He has been replaced on an interim basis by Eric Kaplan, who served as the Dean of Admissions at Lehigh University from 2003 to 2006.

Following a large-scale, six-month search that ended in late June, Penn President Amy Gutmann and Provost Ron Daniels announced that Thomas Robertson will become the dean of the Wharton School.

Martin Meyerson, Penn's sixth president, died of prostate cancer June 2 at Penn Presbyterian Medical Center. He was 84. Meyerson, who served as president from 1970 to 1981, saw Penn through a severe fiscal crisis and set about uniting a sometimes fractious faculty and student body.

When told about the University's newest e-mail service, College junior Max Glass looked a little puzzled. "Penn Live?" he asked. "What is that?" Glass isn't alone in his confusion. Penn Live, the Microsoft-run e-mail server that will eventually completely replace the oft-maligned Webmail server for School of Arts and Sciences and Wharton students, was released to students this summer.

Frank DeSimone, the lawyer for Rafael Robb, the Economics professor who will face trial this fall in connection with the death of Ellen, his wife, wants to bar expert testimony from court that claims murder was likely a personal attack.

In the wake of the shootings at Virginia Tech last April, Penn's Division of Public Safety announced Monday that it has implemented a new emergency notification system. The system, called PennAlert, includes the ability for DPS officials to send text-message alerts in the event of an emergency.

Diplomats don't have to be politicians, but being a president helps. Penn President Amy Gutmann took a trip to Botswana this summer to visit the University of Botswana, which Penn has partnered with for the past six years. On her trip, Gutmann met with the president of the university, the president of Botswana and the U.

Herbert Levine, Economics professor at Penn from 1960 to 2006, died in June, succumbing to complications from leg surgery after battling prostate cancer for the past 15 years. He was 78. Receiving his B.A., M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Harvard University, Levine specialized in Soviet economics.

Friends and neighbors of Ellen Robb have installed a garden gazebo in her honor outside of Roberts Elementary School in Wayne, Pa. Robb, who was found bludgeoned to death in her Wayne home last December, was an active volunteer at the school, and had a daughter who attended the school as well.

Is the South Street Bridge falling down? The question is on the minds of Philadelphia residents, Penn students and local officials, especially in the wake of the fatal Aug. 1 rush hour collapse of the heavily traveled Interstate Highway 35 West bridge in Minnesota.

In the past two weeks, three robberies have occurred near campus, according to the Division of Public Safety. Two of the incidents involved a weapon, and two robberies involved victims affiliated with the University. A shooting also occurred just outside the Penn Patrol zone and a gunshot was reported just off campus, both in mid-August, according to Philadelphia Police.

Tom Sollecito, associate dean for academic affairs at the Penn School of Dental Medicine, will act as dean of the school until current dean Marjorie Jeffcoat recovers from an illness. Jeffcoat was admitted to the emergency department at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania in July.

It's back to the top five. After dropping to the seventh slot on the U.S. News & World Report's national university rankings last year, Penn has climbed back to tie the California Institute of Technology for No. 5.

Theft Aug. 24 - An employee of the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania had money removed by an unknown suspect from an unsecured cabinet. Aug. 24 - A person unaffiliated with the University had a GPS system removed from his car at about 5:00 p.m.

A change in dean is often accompanied by further changes in a school's faculty and administrators. What follows is a list of who is leaving Wharton along with former dean Patrick Harker, who will assume the presidency at the University of Delaware: - Former Undergraduate Dean Barbara Kahn was appointed the Dean of the University of Miami Business School.

Philanthropist Leonore Annenberg was honored wiht the 2006 Philadelphia Award on June 18, recognizing her steadfast dedication to the arts and education. The Philadelphia Award was established in 1921 by Edward Bok, who was a longtime editor of The Ladies Home Journal.

The Penn School of Design's Center for Urban Redevelopment Excellence received a $2.2 million grant in June from the Rockefeller Foundation to aid in the reconstruction of New Orleans. The projects will be centered primarily in areas of the region that were devastated by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.