Throughout the past year, Krone and Andrews prioritized transparency initiatives like holding open forums, as well as community engagement projects such as raising voter turnout in the midterm elections.

Lugar, a former Republican senator from Indiana, was scheduled to receive an honorary doctor of laws degree at this May's commencement ceremony. 

Many universities chose commencement speakers who are also alumni, including 2002 Princeton graduate Ellie Kemper and 2001 Brown graduate John Krasinski.

Although the high rise field is now closed off for the construction of New College House West, Penn's record-breaking $163 million new dorm, Class Board leaders said it will not affect the long standing tradition.

The Sphinx is scheduled to be moved from the Museum's Egypt Gallery to its main entrance hall on June 12. 

Bolton, known around campus as “Rabbi Josh,” has been at Penn Hillel for eight years.

Students part of the Penn & Slavery project presented new information related to their previous research that the University depended on funding from enslavers and collected body parts without consent from enslaved people. 

While University policy allows examinations to be postponed for religious observance and allows students to take make-up exams during the first week of the fall or spring semester, the exact details are left up to the faculty and students to decide, University Chaplain Charles Howard said.

Cullina, an expert on North American plants, currently serves as the CEO of the Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens. 

Penn President Amy Gutmann wrote in an email to the Penn community Thursday that Penn Presidential Professor of Practice Joe Biden “will be taking an unpaid leave of absence from his work at the Penn Biden Center" throughout his campaign.

The study confirmed concerns that watching the show's first season increased suicide ideation but found that watching until the end of the second season had positive mental health effects. 

The change follows city legislation banning cashless stores due to low-income discrimination. 

The security protocols were updated in the early 2000s to prevent terrorism.

Penn launched the “Your Big Idea” challenge on Feb. 4, calling on all Penn-affiliated people to submit ideas to enhance wellness at Penn.

While Penn students from Pittsburgh said the hyperloop would provide a much-needed faster travel option, professors expressed skepticism towards the proposal. 

The Basser Center’s work helps to prevent the development of BRCA mutations — the phenomena which make a person more susceptible to certain cancers, including breast, ovarian, prostate and pancreatic cancer. 

As of now, half of the recycling is burned in Chester, Pa., and the other half is processed by Waste Management.