Penn dropped three spots to eighth place in the 2013 U.S. News and World Report rankings of the nation’s top colleges and universities. The Wharton School retained its spot as the top undergraduate business school.

The artifacts, which Penn had originally purchased legally in 1966 from an antiquities dealer in Philadelphia, are believed to have been previously stolen.

Over the summer, all student rooms, hallways and bathrooms in the Quad were repainted, and some of the study lounges were re-carpeted and re-furnished, according to Business Services.

The Working Dog Center, which opened at Penn’s South Bank on the 11th anniversary of 9/11, will house the inaugural class of working dogs, two of which will go on to serve in Penn’s police force.

The Center will grapple with issues such as how to cope with enemies who are non-state actors, how to justify the lack of symmetrical risk in warfare in an age when precision weapons are becoming more common and how to tackle cyber threats.

Preliminary survey results of the Class of 2012 job numbers reveal that 62 percent of graduates had already obtained full-time employment — the same percent as the Class of 2011 based on 2,043 responses.

In addition to hosting the PennApps hackathon, the college house will also offer computer science classes and house students in the Jerome Fisher Program in Management and Technology.

A man unaffiliated with the University was robbed with a silver handgun in the area of 4038 Spruce St. last night.

The Undergraduate Assembly has a meeting to discuss the upcoming semester, including a new service called PennHelp and a preliminary discussion about whether students should be allowed to take written examinations on their laptops.

Nationals is set to begin gauging interest within the Penn community at the end of this semester and is planning to officially begin colonizing after formal spring rush in 2013.

Although Twitter has become the newest tool for measuring the success of political speeches and conventions, the technique still needs refinement.

This year, AUNI —which already reaches over 10,000 Philadelphia public school students and their families — will offer educational programs in even more public schools in Philadelphia.

Theodore Ruger filed an amicus brief in August on behalf of the National Association of Basketball Coaches, the Women’s Basketball Coaches Association, Black Coaches & Administrators and 43 others defending race-based affirmative action in Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin.

Regardless of their views on abortion, many students are shaken by recent statements from Republican politicians regarding rape and incest.

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Nestel, 50, spent the majority of his career working in Philadelphia but was most recently police chief in Upper Moreland Township in Montgomery County, Pa.

“I’m sure more people have manipulated data — this is just the one we’ve caught,” President of Hernandez College Consulting Michele Hernandez said.