While hundreds of students walked by with their hands glued to their phones Saturday, others chose to [dis]connect for a picnic with their friends on College Green.

For some Korean international students at Penn, the physical distance between the United States and the Korean Peninsula has not diminished the potential effects these tensions can have on their immediate futures.

Princeton announced Sunday afternoon that Christopher Eisgruber, the school’s current provost, will serve as its next president.

On Friday, Penn celebrated its Making History campaign with Time to Shine — an event held in Penn Park honoring the $4.3 billion raised from the University’s campaign. Over 17,000 people signed up for Friday’s celebration.

As the University prepared to celebrate “Making History” at Penn Park, security guards rallied on Shoemaker Green to protest for a contract with AlliedBarton.

Over 25 different booths fed the curiosity of people with beer, ice cream, liquid nitrogen-dipped marshmallows and a healthy dose of science at the sold-out Philadelphia Science Festival kick-off party yesterday night.

Workers at Penn Hillel’s Falk Dining Commons might obtain official union recognition by the end of the semester.

On the vacant corner of 43rd and Sansom streets, Apartments at Penn, a local real estate company that specializes in student housing, plans to construct a 31-unit housing complex with one- and two-bedroom apartments.

Take look at the new study spaces, conference room and rare books library. The renovations took over two years.

Though lifting weights is physically taxing, it is also mentally strenuous — especially when lifters attempt to push themselves to the limits of their capabilities.

See what went down at peer schools this week.

Despite pushback from the administration, students are moving forward with a campaign to get the University to divest its financial holdings in fossil fuel companies.

In the halls of University City High School almost every staff or student greets the Glen Casey by name as he walks after school.

In response to collegiate stress levels, one school — Wake Forest University — recently implemented subtle innovations to their campus to enable students to improve their well-being. Director of Counseling and Psychological Services William Alexander said that Penn is working to implement a similar concept in addition to existing programs.

Penn has closed registration for Friday’s “Time to Shine” Making History campaign celebration, the Office of Development and Alumni Relations confirmed Thursday evening.

When discussing her recent work on how ethical compromises affect women’s decisions to pursue business, Kennedy, a post-doctoral fellow at Wharton, hesitated to stray from the facts — only saying what is concrete and scientifically proven.

The blog, Twit Crit, officially launched last week, and is meant to provide a space to discuss and critically analyze Twitter.