Federal Communications Commission Chair Julius Genachowski spoke in Huntsman Hall on Thursday about his agency’s work in mobile communications.

Daphne Koller, co-founder and CEO of the free online course provider Coursera, hopes to bring her company into a global context.

From pursuing the candidate in a motorboat to lingering in a Las Vegas casino awaiting his arrival at a fundraiser, Parker and her press team never witness a dull moment.

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Guest lecturer John Seager entered the field of population control because his old boss fired him more than a decade ago. And yesterday, Seager came to speak at Penn because the same guy invited him back.

FactCheck’s primary aim is to provide information to voters rather than to force candidates to change their rhetoric.

David Corn spoke at the Kelly Writer’s House as part of the Povich Fund for Journalism Programs talk series. He delivered a speech entitled “Campaign 2012: Are the Lies Winning?”

The voter turnout for the run-off election was 36.3 percent, according to NEC Chair and Engineering and Wharton senior Alec Miller.

A Penn Integrates Knowledge preceptorial allowed Dorothy Roberts, Penn’s newest PIK professor, to share her journey with 40 students. With her recent appointment as Penn’s 14th PIK professor, Roberts looks to enrich her interdisciplinary work in law and sociology in the university.

Rock, who will have a major say in the University’s involvement with Coursera moving forward, sat down with The Daily Pennsylvanian to discuss the future of online learning at Penn.

This year, several high-ranked business schools experienced significant decreases in the number of applicants who applied to their full-time MBA programs. The Wharton School, however, appears to have avoided the trend.

Students participated in a langar, or community meal, to commemorate the six Sikhs that were murdered in the Wisconsin temple shooting this past August.

Penn Law professor Tobias Wolff, who served as LGBT policy chair for the Obama campaign from 2007-08, works towards LGBT equality on Penn’s campus and on a national scale.

The three websites containing leaked private information of over a thousand Penn students and administrators have been removed, according to a University press release.

Among other changes, the alcohol pilot permits mixed drinks at certain on-campus events — the first time this has been allowed since the University Alcohol and Drug Policy was passed in 1999. It also opens up more on-campus spaces for events with alcohol.

Approximately 30 people attended a screening and panel on the 25-minute documentary “The Chiney Shop,” which featured footage from a 1916 Penn graduate, at the Penn Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.