Since then, the University has cycled through six different theme years: food, evolution, arts and the city, water, games and proof. Its seventh theme year, for the 2013-2014 academic year, will be the Year of Sound.

The Philomathean Society and Benjamin Franklin Scholars program, with support from the Student Committee on Undergraduate Education, co-hosted a panel discussion called “Demystifying Academic Tenure” on Thursday night.

The Center for the Advanced Study of India is celebrating 20 years of serving as a hub for research on India at Penn.

For the second time in less than two years, the Student Activities Council has issued a moratorium that will prevent new student groups from receiving recognition and funding.

The new facility, scheduled for completion in mid-2014, will provide West Philadelphia with new outpatient medical facilities, research labs and office space for growing companies.

In what’s being called a loophole in the law, the Montgomery and Allegheny county governments plan to allow voter IDs to be produced by organizations other than the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation’s Driver’s License Centers.

On Friday, state Rep. Dan Truitt (R-West Chester) introduced the Pennsylvania Safe Schools Act into the state legislature as House Bill 2636.

Voting for freshman elections began at 12:01 a.m. Monday and will close at 5 p.m. Friday. Students have been casting their votes online, and candidates have been busy campaigning and getting their names out to the Penn community.

With 3,000 visits in the past month, UPennPost is a Penn-exclusive online marketplace for students to buy, sell and barter any item or service.

An “element of an alter-ego” may develop from an online social network such as Facebook.

Penn professors began developing the program with the army because of the alarming rates of suicide and post-traumatic stress disorder

Even though he had no formal instruction in filmmaking, the College junior decided to make a feature-length film ­— and film it in Sweden this June and July.

PennDesign students submitted a proposal that improve rail transportation in the Northeast Corridor to the NEC FUTURE project.

With the company’s recent expansion to 33 schools — along with the rise of competitor platforms Udacity and edX — Penn is now trying to stand out from the MOOC crowd.

Assault: Sept. 20 – A 34-year-old male officer was assaulted when responding to a radio call by a 23-year-old male suspect of the 100 block of S.

Founded over the summer, the Women’s Political League is dedicated to creating opportunities for women to get more involved in politics and leadership roles at Penn.

Keystone Innovation Zones — a major state initiative introduced by 1965 College graduate and former governor Ed Rendell in 2004 — are designed to spur collaboration among the state’s many universities and colleges to help foster and grow local business.