In light of an increasing trend of violence and bullying toward Asian Americans across the nation, Penn’s umbrella organization for Asian student groups recently started a campaign to raise awareness about racial bullying.

Yesterday, the 1997 Ph.D. recipient finished his day at Friends’ Central Day School to come to Penn to educate about 100 college students about great sex. His talk was in Claudia Cohen Hall, where he aimed to get people thinking about sexuality in a healthy and normal way.

According to a recently publicized Medicare report, many teaching hospitals ­­— including the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania — were found to have higher complication rates than the U.S. national rate.

MTP volunteers help out at the shelter after collecting students’ spare meal swipes at Penn dining halls. The group served this month’s meals yesterday evening.

The chain, headquartered in Illinois, is currently linked to a five-state outbreak of E. coli.

On Sunday, the Undergraduate Assembly passed a resolution urging the University to reevaluate its relationship with longtime partner PNC Bank.

Last month, Graduate School of Education professors Laura Perna and Marybeth Gasman discussed some of their recent research findings at the U.S. Department of Education’s conference, Evidence-Action-Innovation: A College Completion Symposium.

The Graduate Management Admission Council — which owns the GMAT — announced recently that the exam required by graduate business school programs across the nation will be experiencing a makeover.

Joining a Greek chapter on campus includes paying dues that some believe are unreasonably high.

Drexel’s $97.6 million project will create a building complex on 32nd and 33rd streets that consists of student housing and retail businesses. It will be completed by September 2013.

The project — which will kick off in May — will include the addition of 32 new faculty offices, two completely re-done classrooms with updated technology, a lawn area, a new West entrance with an open pavilion and a new glass tower.

Annenberg Public Policy Center Kathleen Hall Jamieson — along with FlackCheck.org, run by the APPC as a sister site of Annenberg’s popular FactCheck.org — is on a crusade to prevent deceptive political ads from being aired.

Penn’s alcohol policy review committee has looked at peer schools’ policies in its revisions.

Students from universities throughout Philadelphia are preparing to mobilize as part of a walkout to take place on the National Day of Action for Education, a movement sponsored by the Occupy organization.

Leaders of all branches of Penn’s student government offered various reactions to the Undergraduate Assembly’s 2012-13 proposed budget at a general body meeting Sunday night.

This past weekend, Penn students took a bus up to Brown University to attend the third annual IvyQ conference. The conference — which attracted about 35 from Penn — was held from Thursday through Sunday.

The future of journalistic integrity in Philadelphia’s major newspapers is being questioned as a group of political big shots bid for the paper.