On Monday night, Penn President Amy Gutmann and Philadelphia mayor Michael Nutter headlined a marquee launch event for the PCI. The event featured a performance by the a cappella group, Off the Beat, and took place in the Prince Theater of the Annenberg Center.

University of Pennsylvania Student Veteran Association opened an online petition on the Veteran Day last week.

Every Friday since Oct. 3, members of SOUL and other students have protested on College Green as part of their "Ferguson Friday" movement.

Founder and former CEO and Chairman of Essence Magazine Ed Lewis worked on Wall Street before starting a magazine targeting black women.

Penn President Amy Gutmann is the chair of the AAU.

On Monday, Pope Francis confirmed that he will be attending the World Meeting of Families in Philadelphia in September 2015.

Rather than abstaining from existing party labels in the Massachusetts gubernatorial election, Law School graduate Evan Falchuk created a party all his own.

Harrison College House will expand its Integrated Living Program to serve as an anchor for the house as the Freshman Experience program will be discontinued.

On Dec. 5 through 6, the Wharton African American MBA Association will host the 41st annual Whitney M. Young, Jr. Conference. This annual conference brings together students from around Penn’s campus and the Philadelphia area to empower underrepresented individuals who hope to develop their skills in the corporate world.

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The Medical Emergency Response Team enlisted a group of 65 volunteers for its annual mass casualty incident simulation on Sunday. Individuals from MERT, University of Pennsylvania Police Department, the Division of Public Safety, the Philadelphia Fire Department and AlliedBarton sharpened their crisis response skills by tending to the group of "injured" students.

When Dean Jackson joined SP2 this year, he expected to make progressive new changes across the board.

Michael Karp is sitting in the faculty office at Belmont Charter School, the elementary school he founded in 1997.

A look back to a weekend full of waltz, breakdance and fashion. 

At its fall Commendation Ceremony, the Division of Public Safety honored the officers who apprehended Corey Gaynor, the man who allegedly shot a man outside of the Copabanana on April 15

The first meeting between the Graduate School of Education and the School District of Philadelphia was held yesterday as part of the Shared Solutions research partnership announced in September. The mini-conference held at the School District headquarters brought together about 100 teachers, administrators and community members to discuss current strategies and possible improvements for the district’s school reform efforts.

Penn was in the news this week after a controversial video at a University conference re-emerged featuring MIT economics professor Jonathan Gruber, who helped draft the Affordable Care Act, saying the law only passed because of the "stupidity of the American voter." The video, which was posted on Penn’s Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics website, showed Gruber addressing an audience at a health economics conference in October 2013.