While students might find their study skills rusted after a long summer, College sophomore Erica Liebman faced an extreme version of this situation when she returned to her books after more than a decade. Twelve years ago, Liebman took a leave of absence from Penn after her third semester to become a car mechanic.

You can’t burst this professor’s bubble. Assistant professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Daeyeon Lee recently won the 3M Nontenured Faculty Award for creating particles that are hollow and lightweight, like bubbles, but are also surprisingly sturdy.

As University City brightens in the coming months, one of its unique public areas is also springing to life.

In the 102 days since the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School, over 3,000 people in the United State have been killed by guns — and Penn Democrats have had enough.

The UA wants you to go to the Palestra a little more often.

Just one year away from its full implementation in 2014, the Affordable Care Act continues to raise concerns as many consider the effects it may have on national full-time employment.

Parts of Spruce Street lost electricity for the fourth time in the past two weeks late Monday afternoon as a result of what PECO Energy calls an “ongoing” issue with an underground cable.

Research a Penn professor has been doing on the brain for the past 35 years is now being considered for a television show.

Festival Latino — the week dedicated to the celebration of Latino culture — and QPenn, its LGBT counterpart, celebrated last night with their first collaboration: Sancocho.

Last Friday afternoon, Penn celebrated the realization of a simple idea by strong collaborations — PennCycle.

All interior Quad doors will be “inaccessible for entrance” or have AlliedBarton Security guards posted outside on the Friday and Saturday of Spring Fling.

Admissions consulting firms have been around for a while now, and with a constant flow of demand from both undergraduate and graduate students seeking advice on how to perfect their applications to various programs, the industry is flourishing.

Engineering senior Ayaka Nonaka has built two iPhone apps — one for the weather and one to-do list — for fun in the past month. As a computer science major, a teacher for the half-credit course Computer Science 195 and one of the organizers of PennApps, Nonaka has had extensive experience in programming but wanted to use these projects as “an exercise in programming, design and product development.”

Students new to Hillel receive an introduction to other branches of their own religion, often for the first time.

A group known as Americans for Free Speech marched to protest the removal of Gujarat chief state minister Narendra Modi from the Wharton India Economic Forum Saturday afternoon.

Friday night, the Nominations and Elections Committee presented the results of the spring 2013 student government elections. College and Wharton junior Abe Sutton won the presidency uncontested, while College sophomore Gabe Delaney won a close election for vice president against Wharton sophomore Christian Cortes.

A pipe in the first floor ceiling of Skirkanich Hall leaked this afternoon at around 12:20 p.m, causing water to spill over the first floor.