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.

One daily routine for many college women recently became much more expensive. Many drug companies are no longer offering universities discounts on birth control because of government legislation.

College freshman Nate Adler made 100 friends before New Student Orientation even began. Granted, they are Facebook friends. Wanting to meet his future dorm mates in Hill College House, Adler, joined the Hill House-Class of 2011 group on Facebook.com and subsequently friended many of its members over the summer.

The newest campus bagel shop - serving cream cheese, lox and the theory of relativity. Einstein Bros. Bagels, a chain based out of Colorado, will open in the basement of Houston Hall this fall. The store represents the first bagel store on campus since Univerity Bagels closed in 1998.

A number of American universities are lashing out against a British proposal to boycott Israeli academics. The British University and College Union, which represents over 120,000 British professors, issued its proposal in protest of perceived Israeli civil rights violations.

Following one of the worst betting scandals in recent memory, one economics expert is calling a foul on current sports betting regulations. Justin Wolfers, whose work is based in applied economics, similar to the type of research made popular by the best-selling book Freakonomics, made a name for himself last spring when he released a study indicating a racial bias among NBA referees.

Penn Health System officials announced plans in June for a 10-story research tower, with hopes that the new facility will raise the bar for regional biomedical research. Located next to the $232 million Perelman Center for Advanced Medicine on Civic Center Boulevard, the new $370 million biomedical research facility is scheduled for completion by the summer of 2010, Penn Medicine spokesman Marc Kaplan said.

Students arriving at Penn this week may not recognize the campus, which has undergone plenty of groundbreakings and renovations over the past four months. Some noteworthy - and hard to miss - projects include: n Demolition and utility relocation is underway for a new building at 36th and Locust streets: The Annenberg Public Policy Center.

After years of anticipation, it's finally happened. Penn announced today that it had closed on its purchase of the postal lands west of campus. It will collaborate with Brandywine Realty Trust on development of the area between Market and Walnut streets, which will feature a 40- to 50-story office tower on Walnut Street and a 25- to 30-story residential tower on Chestnut Street.

The late Claudia Cohen has bequeathed a $1 million gift to The Daily Pennsylvanian in her will. Cohen, 57, died of ovarian cancer in June. The ex-wife of fellow Penn alumnus and billionaire Ron Perelman, she left behind a fortune totalling $60 million. She wrote in her will that the DP "meant so much to me and my career," according to The New York Daily News, where Cohen wrote a column entitled "I, Claudia.

While the Fighting Quaker might not be the most ferocious mascot, Penn students should at least be thankful they are not represented by a Fighting Artichoke. In the wake of U.S. News and World Report's recently released rankings, many other sources are releasing their own lists of approval, including AOL's "Worst Mascots Ever," in which Scottsdale Arizona's Community College's Fighting Artichokes landed fourth.

The Wharton School has awarded the Dean's Medal to Oscar Arias, president of Costa Rica. The Dean's Medal is the highest award given by Wharton. It was created in 1983 to recognize leaders in business, public service and academia who have successfully used their management talents to make a positive impact on people's lives.

Construction is proceeding on schedule on the Radian student-apartment building, according to a spokeswoman for the building's developer, Inland American Communities Group Inc. Located on the 3900 block of Walnut Street, the high-rise building will house 500 students in 154 apartments and will also feature two stories of retail space totaling 40,000 square feet.

The third trial of Irina Malinovskaya, a Wharton undergraduate accused of murder, is to begin with jury selection this Tuesday.