Penn Alexander’s new kindergarten class was notified of their acceptance decisions by the School District of Philadelphia earlier this week.

Former Secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection and 1984 Law School graduate John Hanger announced Thursday that he would no longer be pursuing the Democratic Party’s nomination for governor.

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Frank Stefano, a researcher in the biochemistry department of the School of Dental Medicine, was released from jail on March 6 after his $375,000 bail was posted.

A retired New Jersey teacher has started a petition for a law named after College freshman Madison Holleran, whose January death was ruled a suicide.

Part of the Math, Physics and Astronomy Library in David Rittenhouse Laboratories will be converted to an active learning classroom and the Engineering Library in the Towne Building will close at the end of the semester.

UA Vice President Gabe Delaney and UA Representative Joyce Kim, both college juniors, turned in their petitions to run for UA president today.

In celebration of International Women’s Day, several organizations collided in the creation of a Women, War and Peace panel, held at International House Philadelphia.

On Tuesday morning, President Amy Gutmann announced the creation of the President's Distinguished Professorship Fund, which is part of a University effort to increase Penn's recruitment and retainment of outstanding faculty. 

Andy Tekriwal is CFO of The Real Meals, a local catering company that often provides food for Penn sorority and fraternity events.

Penn alumnus Morgan Neville won an Oscar for directing the Best Documentary Feature at the Academy Awards on Sunday night.

On Wednesday evening, SPEC Connaissance announced their spring speaker as Retta Sirleaf, also known as Donna Meagle from "Parks and Recreation."

Students will no longer be penalized a quarter of a point for getting the wrong answer and obscure vocabulary words will be replaced in favor of words relevant to college courses.

Federal Donuts will be officially opening its doors on campus on Monday, March 10. This is the third location of the famous donut and fried chicken shop, located on 3428 Sansom St.

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Former Wharton student Matt Geiger and Wharton senior Evan Rosenbaum co-founded Blend, a college-exclusive app that allows users to share photos and win gift cards based on a daily theme. Blend will expand to develop more prominence in the app world due to a recent seed investment of $2.7 million from the global venture capital firm, New Enterprise Associates, or NEA.

The first ever African Think Tank Summit brought pioneering results.Penn’s Think Tanks and Civil Societies Program organized the first ever continental think tank conference in partnership with the Africa Building Capacity Foundation.