After piloting the system in fall 2012 with some classes, Penn administrators have brought the Course Absence Report system to a wider range of courses.

Manny Diaz, who served as mayor of Miami from 2001 to 2009, spoke Monday night to a room of sixty about growing up — and later governing — in that city.

Penn students concerned about sustainability can now fill up their water bottles at the new bottle filling station in Huntsman Hall.

Although the number of influenza-like illness cases usually peaks in mid-January, according to Division Chief of Penn Infectious Disease Ebbing Lautenbach, this year’s national and local ILI incidence peaked five weeks earlier than last year.

On Jan. 10, the United States Department of Homeland Security issued an advisory recommending computer users to temporarily disable the latest version of the software, Java 7, on their computers.

Founded in 2009 as a relatively small group, Penn Shooting Club has seen its membership increase dramatically over a nearly four-year span. Today, the organization has about 600 students on its email listserv — and it’s continuing to grow.

The construction of the Krishna P. Singh Center for Nanotechnology on Walnut Street is almost complete. It will be opening on November 7.

The business of the meeting centered on the Preferred Name Resolution II, which was passed unanimously. The resolution came to the UA at its last meeting in the fall of 2012, and aims to provide a more accessible route for students of the LGBT and international communities to change their names on official documents.

The Perelman School of Medecine and the Department of Medical Ethics launched the Penn Neurodegenerative Disease Ethics and Policy Program.

The Artist-in-Residence program exhibited West Philadelphia artists in their annual “Friends and Neighbors” show this weekend.

Twenty-four Penn professors joined a group of researchers urging Vice President Joe Biden to increase funding for gun violence research.

Chester County Hospital and Health System will join the University of Pennsylvania Health System. It has been seeking a corporate partner due to fiscal difficulties.

Seven freshmen founded a new group, Penn Non-Cis, for students whose biological gender and sexual identity do not match.

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The Comprehensive Stroke Center Certification was derived in part from the work of Richard Zorowitz, who used to serve as medical director of Inpatient Rehabilitation and director of Stroke Rehabilitation at HUP.

The startup Textbook Friend, which allows Penn students to communicate easily to buy or sell used textbooks, launched Nov. 25. It was founded by Wharton freshman Karan Parekh and College freshman Joshua Haghani, who began their Penn experience as roommates but became business partners by the end of the semester.

Despite Career Services’ recent social media push, only about 85 responses to their assessment surveys have been recorded. The surveys are part of a larger process that began in October.