Wharton’s Lifelong Learning Tour will continue to bring alumni together to stay connected and learn from a variety of Wharton faculty

Some members of the senior class across the College of Arts and Sciences will write or have already written their senior theses.

In an exclusive sit down with the DP, Junot Diaz spoke with reporter Shoshana Akabas on his book characters and the writers who influenced him in college.

Diaz, the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer best known for his novel, “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao,” spoke to an audience of nearly 1,000 Penn students, faculty and Philadelphia residents last night in the Penn Museum’s Harrison Auditorium.

Although there is little doubt that Penn will be reaccredited, administrators are using the self-study as an opportunity for a thorough review of undergraduate education on campus.

Currently, only 21 out of 257 TFA corps members in the area are teaching in traditional public schools, with the rest teaching in charter schools — public institutions run independently by a board of trustees that can set its own curriculum.

College junior and Zeta Tau Alpha sister Jessica Stokes, the newly elected president of the Panhellenic Council, sat down with The Daily Pennsylvanian to discuss her plans for the upcoming year.

Since 2009, Penn’s Graduate School of Education has been working with Kazakhstani leaders on revamping their higher education system. GSE faculty and staff first advised leaders in anticipation of the opening of Nazerbayev University, which saw its first incoming class in fall 2010.

The Jaffe History of Art Building, located at 3405 Woodland Walk, won the campus building competition, with a total energy reduction of 21.6 percent. Stouffer College House, which reduced its energy usage by 14.5 percent, won the college house competition.

States still debating whether to set up their own health-exchange market or let the federal government do it received a one-month extension on Nov. 14 with a Dec. 14 deadline.

The company currently owns a portfolio of nearly $200 million of real estate comprising 145 properties across the country.

Housed at the School of Social Policy & Practice, the Center for High Impact Philanthropy was established in 2006 by SP2 Dean Richard Gelles and a group of anonymous Wharton alumni.

The University sold $300 million worth of bonds that will mature in 100 years, otherwise known as century bonds, at an historic low interest rate of 4.674 percent.

Every year, a number of employees of Penn — including staff, faculty and administrators — take classes at the University either for credit or just to learn something new.

It’s just before 7 a.m. on a cold sunny morning when I arrive at Penn’s South Bank, where I am greeted by three of the puppies I had met two months ago at the Penn Vet Working Dog Center’s grand opening.

Last week, UMOJA — the umbrella organization for black student groups on campus — elected College sophomores Abrina Hyatt and Meron Zeru as its new planning and facilitating co-chairs.

Although it’s been over seven months since the vote to unionize, members of PSOU are still negotiating new contract details with AlliedBarton to help improve labor conditions for guards.