Engineering junior Mark Harding recently traveled to D.C., where he explained to congressional staffers how he used work-study opportunities to create night classes for West Philadelphia adults.

Two Social Policy & Practice students created the Disability Student Interest Group to work to incorporate disability education into their curriculum.

The department is holding a two-day multidisciplinary conference in celebration, which will include panel discussions and a documentary screening.

Professors advocate bump-outs, big picture reforms and student safety education.

The Mask & Wig ensemble will have their first show Wednesday night and continue through Saturday. Final dress rehearsal focused on correcting mistakes from technical to dance.The fall show introduces new members to the ins and outs of production.

Lawrence Scott Ward’s appeal for a lighter prison sentence has been denied. Ward claimed that the sentence was inappropriate on several grounds.

The Warren Center for Network & Data Science, which will provide funding for network research science will open on Friday.

Penn President Amy Gutmann was the second-highest-paid Ivy League campus head in 2011, jumping up one spot on the annual Ivy compensation rankings.

Wharton professor studies the work and life integration of Wharton graduates, many of who find managing work and family difficult with increased work requirements.

Ohio Valley University renamed its business school after donors Gene and Joyce Wharton. In the past, Penn has sued over use of the Wharton name.

The Year of Health theme for the 2014-2015 academic year coincides with the 250th anniversary of the Perelman School of Medicine. Plans for health theme have been in effect for about 3 years.

Crime log for the week of Oct. 4 to Oct. 10

An unaffiliated male was walking in the area when two males came up to him and displayed what appeared to be a handgun.

Recent college graduates should consider the job market strength of a particular city as they look for employment.

Throughout his 25-year-long career, Dante Basco has acted in Steven Spielberg’s “Hook”, has voiced Zuko, Prince of the Fire Nation in the Nickelodeon series “Avatar: The Last Airbender” and has been a guest spoken word poet at Da Poetry Lounge in Los Angeles.

Though the genre has been around since the 20th century, Blonk has been contributing to the growth and development of sound poetry by using more contemporary media forms and pre-recorded sounds.

With licenses borrowed from Weigle Information Commons, Penn students can now access Lynda.com, an online training website, from any location on any machine for one day at a time.