After a round of discussion last week, the official budget now proposes to give the Student Activities Council $1,065,790.13 —around a 6.5 percent increase from last year.

During Koop’s time as surgeon general, he was best known for his campaign against smoking. He also wrote an educational paper during this time about HIV and AIDS, when the disease was first subjected to public controversy.

The summer before his freshman year at The College of New Jersey, sophomore Ryan Dolan watched the movie “Limitless” on his flight down to Hawaii for vacation, and was inspired to create a real-life version of the pill that grants Bradley Cooper’s character superhuman power and focus.

Houston Hall has a complex recycling operation and has evolved over the years.

Since 2011, nine out of a total of 12 patients have responded successfully to the treatment, for which June — the Director of the Translational Research Program and the Richard W. Vague Professor in Immunotherapy in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the Perelman School of Medicine — was awarded first place in Men’s Health magazine’s “2012 Heroes of Health and Fitness.”

Penn Timebank to allow students and faculty to exchange services with each other.

There is currently no set timeline for launching the technology to the general Penn community, but the estimate is that it will take up to five years.

On Monday, the Wharton School and Cisco Systems, Inc. jointly unveiled for the first time the new “Cisco Connected Classroom” in Huntsman Hall with a live demonstration of the telepresence technology.

This research is groundbreaking both because it is the first to demonstrate that the Jagged-1 protein can assist in the healing process of human bones and provides insight into possible treatments for rare metabolic condition called Alagille syndrome.

Convergencias 2013 — an annual conference organized this year by the student group Mex@Penn — brought together a host of Mexican academics, professionals and students to have a dialogue on Mexico’s current situation and place in history.

PennBoard is an online platform for students and on-campus groups to post event information and announcements online. The events are arranged on a calendar, which users can navigate to view events by date.

On March 14, SPEC-TRUM will be bringing R&B artist Melanie Fiona and emerging rapper Future.

Cradle to Grave — a program started in 2006 by two Penn graduates — has taught thousands of inner-city Philadelphia youth about the impact of gun violence.

A recent study from the Perelman School of Medicine shows that certain nutrients may play an essential role in sleep duration and that variety in diet is associated with healthier sleeping patterns.

The DP’s crime beats took a weekend night shift with Penn Police officers.

For the afternoon, College and Wharton students alike came together for the first annual Wharton Business Law Conference, learning from some of the nation’s top law firm partners and executives about the practice and importance of business law.

Starting Friday afternoon, Natives at Penn — a student organization representing American Indian, Native Hawaiian and Alaska Native students on campus — hosted the All-Ivy Native Conference, one of the two times of the year when the communities at all Ivy League universities get together.