New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman and Coursera co-founder Daphne Koller will be among the panelists at an April 5 discussion about online learning and what it means for the future of higher education, the University announced Wednesday.

Following Penn’s announcement Tuesday morning that Biden will be delivering the commencement address on May 13, students from both sides of the political aisle have said they are excited about the decision to bring the vice president to campus.

By the end of the semester, the fraternity Alpha Sigma Phi will be one step closer to re-establishing its presence within Penn’s Greek community.

In preparation for Spring Fling next month, the Social Planning and Events Committee’s Spring Fling committee has sponsored a new series of events, called Fling Fridays, for the past three weeks.

Approximately 360 customers lost electricity in an outage that began at about 2:30 p.m. due to an issue with an underground cable, according to PECO Energy Company spokesperson Kathy Lentini.

Vice President Joe Biden will deliver this year’s commencement address, marking the first time ever that a sitting vice president has been Penn’s commencement speaker, the University announced Tuesday.

With over $22 million invested in a timespan of seven months, the FundersClub is aiming to take venture capital to a new level.

If College sophomore Christianne Johnson could describe her dad in one word, it would be “resilient.”

This year’s new Penn Alumni Interview Program had an ambitious goal of interviewing 100 percent of applicants by 2015, and in this year’s admissions cycle, Penn has gotten closer. .

Although the frenzy of the PennApps hackathon ended two months ago, several of the prizewinning teams are still developing their apps.

As the outside temperature goes up, crime at Penn typically goes the same direction.

The Law School is partnering with the Wharton School to launch the first management program for law students of its kind.

Property values in University City are on the rise, which means higher rents for students and higher taxes for homeowners.

SPEC is bringing the actor, director and writer, Zach Braff to campus on March 25.

Last year’s electrical and systems engineering seniors saw a hole in their department’s curriculum and designed a course to fill it. For the past few years, ESE freshmen could not take an introductory course about their major until their second semester, when they start ESE 170 or 171.

So far, there have not been legal ramifications from the incident. The day of Hartford’s death, his father said that he has no plans to sue, and stands by this decision unless medical expenses are exorbitantly high.

Despite a strong lobbying push from universities around the nation, federal funding for science research has been slashed as part of a $1.2 trillion package of budget cuts.