“Art heals, art unites and art changes minds in a convincing fashion. Art drives the agenda. Great art is never silent, can’t be ignored and serves poorly the status quo,” said Jane Golden, executive director of the Philadelphia Mural Arts Program.

To introduce the group to campus, a conference titled “Consulting for Change” was held in Huntsman Hall on Friday morning, featuring Wharton professor Keith Weigelt, who is also the faculty advisor for CFA.

The Daily Pennsylvanian sat down with Law School alumnus and freshman U.S. Rep. Matthew Cartwright (D-Pa.) to discuss his time at Penn Law and his goals for Congress.

Penn students rose as early as 3 a.m. Monday to join the crowd of over one million spectators for President Barack Obama’s second inauguration on the National Mall.

The bulk of the meeting was a discussion about the UA’s political advocacy and how it should be handled.

January generally witnesses an influx of people flocking to the gym with high hopes of losing weight. For those participating in the Penn SHAPE challenge though, going to the gym is not just about losing weight, but also about an overall health gain.

Barack Obama, the United States’ first black president, was sworn in for a second term on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, with a forceful inaugural speech

It’s the last day of the hackathon and we’re liveblogging again from the scene.

This weekend, Penn received an influx of great technological minds. Included among these were 2011 Engineering graduates Lu Chen and Ryan Menezes, who are both software engineers at Facebook.

School officials announced that tonight that Penn Alexander School would select students for its incoming class by a lottery system even as about 70 parents stood in line to register.

This is the third straight year that Penn’s applicant pool has remained above 31,000, after a 39 percent increase from 2009 to 2011.

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Last night, Penn for Palestine, a student organization that raises awareness about Palestinian issues, screened the award-winning documentary, “Roadmap to Apartheid,” as part of the University’s annual Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Symposium on Social Change and was jointly hosted by the Center for Africana Studies.

Here’s The Daily Pennsylvanian’s guide to the schedule, useful websites, what-not-to-dos and Twitter handles to follow for updates.

Between Jan. 18 and 20, students from almost 40 universities around the country and Canada and Zurich will be gathering in the Towne Building for PennApps, a student-run 48-hour hackathon held every semester.

The 1987 College graduate, former Utah governor and 2012 presidential candidate was the inaugural speaker in the Center for the Study of Contemporary China’s new series of annual high-profile lectures.

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