Two PennDesign graduate students have developed a plan to save flooding cities.

Professor Loretta Jemmott has selected 48 barbershops in West Philadelphia to partake in an ongoing study. When black males between the age of 18 to 24 come into the barbershop, they are offered the option of undergoing general testing for STDs.

A study released by Bullhorn Reach, a division of the recruiting software company Bullhorn Inc., reveals that social media websites such as Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn are set to become important recruitment tools for employers.

The Office of Admissions is making more of a push to reach out to students who don’t have the resources to take an extensive look at the campus.

Bent Button Productions, a student film production group, must raise $30,000 in donations by the end of March to fund the documentary they plan to make out of Luke Kelly’s journey to Brazil.

A Law School student group got itself into haute water with Louis Vuitton.

Now one of about 10 cities in the nation with a real-time crime center, Philadelphia installed a surveillance center in the lobby of the police headquarters at 8th and Race streets.

A new liquor store is scheduled to open within the next few months in the 43rd and Chestnut streets plaza, University City Review reports.

After being challenged by a fellow student, the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania declared that Charles Gray will no longer be on the ballot for the April primaries.

A group of future lawyers is using its more creative side to bring public interest advocacy to the movie screen.

The Lambda Alliance and Undergraduate Assembly have gained another victory in the fight to improve gender non-specificity on campus.

This year, Penn is celebrating the 66th anniversary of the world’s first computer which was created by a Penn professor and grad student.

In response to a potential limit to women’s access to contraception, Penn Democrats began an online petition on Change.org to protect women’s access to birth control and oppose the Blunt amendment.

Having landed an investment banking internship with RBC Capital Markets the summer after her junior year, Wharton senior Lauren Cuzzaniti was, by traditional standards, on track to start a promising financial career. The only problem? She hated it.

Some bioethics experts are criticizing Penn’s dismissal of the research misconduct charges levied by a psychiatry professor against two of his colleagues in the department.

VIPER — the Vagelos Integrated Program in Energy Research — was announced in the fall and is currently working to finalize its curriculum and admit its first freshman class ever. VIPER will combine courses from the College of Arts and Sciences and the School of Engineering and Applied Science to educate students on alternative energy resources.

For its commitment to service learning in the past year, Penn has received a Presidential Award of the 2012 President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll. Penn was one of five higher education institutions to receive the Presidential Award. The five awards were granted out of 14 finalists, and 513 were admitted to the honor roll.