The three students were taken to the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania for examination and treatment.

A single car crash occurred at the intersection of 38th and Spruce streets Friday around 2:45 p.m. The crash knocked down a traffic signal.

When Susan Komen was diagnosed with breast cancer in the late 1970s, people walking through the town of Peoria, Illinois, would cross the street when they saw her, out of fear that they would catch what they called “the big C.”After Komen’s younger sister, Nancy Brinker, made a promise to put an end to breast cancer forever, Brinker founded Susan G. Komen for the Cure — an organization that has invested almost $2 billion around the globe in ground-breaking research, education, screening and treatment.

Last night, members of the Philadelphia and Penn community learned about hip-hop from one of the masters of the trade.The Center for Africana Studies Undergraduate Advisory Board brought Grammy Award-winning producer, artist and scholar Patrick Douthit — better known as 9th Wonder — to speak at the Annenberg School about the history of contemporary hip-hop music and its influence on his life.

Last night, J Street U Penn — a pro-Israel and pro-peace student group at Penn — hosted Daniel Seidemann, an Israeli attorney and legal expert on east Jerusalem policy. For his talk, Seidemann delved into his professional experience and lent some rational insight on the possibility of a two-state solution between Israelis and Palestinians.

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The federal government launched an initiative Thursday to make repayment easier for students struggling to pay back their loans.

It was less than a decade after he left Penn in 1977, and Gary Ross found himself sitting in the home of his longtime friend Anne Spielberg.

The Philadelphia School District’s School Reform Commission’s March decision as to whether or not to close University City High School could significantly damage the Netter Center for Community Partnerships’ relationship with the students.

For many, trying to find a balance between faith and proof can become a difficult tightrope act.In conjunction with the University’s “Year of Proof,” Penn Secular Society brought Carnegie Mellon University philosophy professor Andy Norman to speak Wednesday afternoon in a lecture titled “Faith, Proof and Everything in Between.”

While women are getting ahead nationwide, their rate of advancement at Penn and at other elite institutions has grown stagnant.

The Towne building — located in the Engineering Quad — was evacuated at approximately 3:30 p.m. Thursday due to an accidental chemical spill.The spill, which occurred in a lab on the building’s first floor, was cleaned-up by Penn’s Emergency Health and Radiation Safety, according to the Division of Public Safety.

Sunday evening Penn students across campus will put down their Math 104 textbooks, marketing assignments and political science papers to tune in for the Oscars. Dorms throughout campus will be hosting a variety of screening events in their various spaces, including Hill House, King’s Court English House, Harrison College House, Rodin College House, and the Quad.

Two days after President’s Day, a celebrated biographer cast a new light on the man commonly known as the Father of Our Country.

Though the Vagina Monologues have come and gone, students are working to make sure its message is here to stay.

On Tuesday, March 19, the Social Planning and Events Committee’s board is bringing comedian Jason Sudeikis to Irvine Auditorium as this semester’s Connaissance speaker.

It was January 2011. College junior Layla O’Kane sat glued to her television, clicking back and forth between United States and international news channels.