Although brownouts have been in use for decades, several recent fire incidents have called into question the safety of the practice, which affects fire engines and ladders city-wide.

Taking the place of MidAtlantic Restaurant & Tap Room, which closed Feb. 24, Han Dynasty boasts new amenities and options at the new 37th and Market location.

The group dug 1,150 meters of trenches, and laid and buried piping as part of the soon-to-be completed water system.

Named by Esquire as the “Best Beer-Drinking City in America,” Philadelphia started the nation’s first craft beer celebration five years ago.

Several students have faced consequences from the Office of Student Conduct for illegally file-sharing or “torrenting” movies, music and television shows from their computers.

A renowned scholar of World War I and II, Fussell joined Penn’s English department in 1983, and taught until his retirement in 1994.

For the past two years, the Philadelphia Department of Public Health, in collaboration with numerous members of the Penn community, has been working to revitalize the city of Philadelphia, one photograph at a time.

Penn is the tenth university to partner with the nationwide public charter school program, which encourages underprivileged youth to achieve their goals of attending college.

The NSF-funded research includes a quantum chemistry project and a study of overheating mobile devices.

A Penn research team is urging Philadelphians to take notice of the locations of life-saving electronic devices.

With the increasing rate of cell phone robberies nationwide, wireless carriers such as AT&T and Verizon have begun to cooperate in an effort to thwart mobile device theft.

Many members of the Service Employees International Union view the School Reform Commission’s plan as privatization of the public school system in Philadelphia.

The University announced in the May 22 edition of The Almanac that it will provide up to $125 a month or $1,500 per year to employees who pay taxes to the Internal Revenue Service for health benefits their partners receive.

Addressing Penn’s graduating Class of 2012, founder of Harlem Children’s Zone Geoffrey Canada asked, “Do you care about those who won’t make it without real help?”

A group of 20 Penn students spent their spring semester “being surrounded by noise [while] trying to be silent.”

Founded in South Korea by Sun Myung Moon in 1954, the Unification Church spread to the United States in 1971.

Mindy and Jonathan Gray, both 1992 College graduates, have donated $25 million to create the Basser Research Center, a new cancer research center focused on researching BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes.