Chairez’s lawyer Lloyd Long said, however, the date may change in order to allow Chairez and Bryn Mawr College junior Jessica Hyejin Lee, who was arrested with Chairez on March 14, to face trial on the same day.

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Members from Penn Police, PennComm, Department of Fire and Emergency Services and AlliedBarton Security were awarded commendations of merit.

Miller, who formerly served as the vice chair for nominations of the NEC, sat down with The Daily Pennsylvanian to discuss some of his goals for the year ahead.

According to undergraduate department chair and music composition professor James Primosch, the Music Department will be adding more performance-based courses in the fall as part of an effort to emphasize the value of performance among music majors.

Browning, coordinator of Clinical Pastoral Education at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, was working his monthly night shift as the only on-call chaplain in the hospital.

According to SEAS Communications Director Joan Gocke, the Engineering School received about $11 million — or 21 percent of the school’s total research budget — in Department of Defense funding for the 2011 fiscal year.

Penn’s most innovative entrepreneurs gathered yesterday to compete for the top prize at PennVention’s final Innovation Fair.

The Penn Quaker marched off the football field and into Spruce Hill Christian School yesterday, pumping up the K-8 school’s Penn Fitness for Life mentor program.

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Additional recommendation letters may boost or harm an application, according to admissions experts.

Last year, 43 percent of surveyed companies increased their staff sizes, a 26.5-percent increase from 2010, the report added.

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The investigation following an armed robbery on a student which occurred on April 8 has come to a close.

An interactive game that educates soldiers about the effects of post-traumatic stress disorder is among 10 different games that will be presented at the School of Nursing’s Game Solutions for Health Care competition today.

Professor Americus Reed’s “Consumer Behavior” class gives students a chance to interact with real-world clients and develop ways for companies to improve their marketing efforts and better understand consumer preferences.

This is not the first time the Zoning Board has rejected a state liquor store in the past five years. In 2007, the Zoning Board rejected a state liquor store at a site at 43rd and Walnut streets.