Two graduate students at Penn are looking to use their interest in medicine to improve eye care in Liberia through the New Sight Eye Center. The center began operating a few weeks ago in Liberia with the mission of reducing preventable blindness and visual impairment in rural and urban communities.

Philadelphia police fired gunshots in the area of 38th and Market streets early Thursday morning, and Penn’s Department of Public Safety issued a UPennAlert at 3:17 a.m.

The appointment of Christina Paxson will maintain the current balance of male-to-female Ivy League presidents.

Students, faculty and staff at Penn — as well as from schools across Philadelphia — walked out of their classrooms Thursday for the National Day of Action for Education, joining together in solidarity for a march to City Hall. GALLERY: Education WalkoutVIDEO: March for Education Reform

Last Saturday, Penn Dems announced that College junior Andrew Silverstein resigned from his position as president. College sophomore Andrew Brown will assume the position, effective immediately, in leading the student group for the next year.

Each trip has a different project on a different site, but all of them share the same basic structure: groups of 12-14 travel somewhere in the country and engage in community service.

The coding and startup community at Penn has been steadily growing in recent years.

The Division of Public Safety recently concluded an investigation of a reported swastika engraving on campus.

Before arriving at Penn, 22-year-old College freshman John Cheo was somewhere in the middle of Brunei’s jungles on a survival expedition, living off whatever he could scavenge from the area while fulfilling Singapore’s military obligations.

The Penn Project for Civic Engagement has teamed with the region’s chapter of a national service organization, to host community forums.

During the break, Wharton Dean Thomas Robertson will visit Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and Buenos Aires, Argentina, as part of his plan to meet with alumni and other influential people associated with Wharton.

Freedom to Marry Day is celebrated all over the nation and involves symbolically marrying student couples throughout the day. It is organized by National Marriage Equality USA, a grass roots nonprofit organization.

The Orthodox Community at Penn hosted “ManiCURE: Salon with a Cause” in Houston Hall’s Hall of Flags yesterday to raise money for breast cancer research and promote awareness about the disease.

Students throughout campus will participate in a student walkout March 1 at 1 p.m. organized as part of the National Day of Action for Education, which is sponsored by the Occupy movement.

Several recent resignation announcements by female presidents at top-tier institutions have prompted discussion about the representation of women at the highest levels of university leadership.

The Wharton Communications Advisory Board hosted Seelert to speak about leadership and how to build a successful career on Tuesday afteroon in Hunstman Hall.

According to a report released by Forbes last week, the University’s endowment growth ranks 22nd among the 32 universities with endowments valued at more than $2 billion.