Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist and author David Maraniss spoke about his experience with non-fiction writing at the Kelly Writer’s House.

Today marks the deadline for students leasing from University City’s biggest realtor, Campus Apartments, to renew their contracts. Many upperclassmen who will no longer occupy their residences have made agreements to “pass down” their lease.

The Philadelphia office of United States Citizenship and Immigration Services will move into University City at 30 N. 41st St. by the end of 2012.

The Race Dialogue Project’s “Mixed Messages: Stories of Inter-identity Relationships,” opened Nov. 13 and features photographs by Robert Kalman. The artwork of Penn students is exhibited as well.

Lisa Nutter, wife of Mayor and 1979 Wharton graduate Michael Nutter, sat with 27 students and faculty Nov. 11. Nutter graduated PennDesign in 1992.

Lynda Williams, a worker at the Women’s Medical Society located a block north of campus, pleaded guilty to two counts of third-degree murder. According to a Grand Jury report, the clinic performed illegal late-term abortions.

A Georgetown University study found that less than half of undergraduates with engineering or science majors pursue a career in the field of science. These students may be attracted to business career paths because of salary and location.

A 25-year-old woman was allegedly raped by another protester at Occupy Philadelphia on Nov. 12. Mayor and 1979 Wharton graduate Michael Nutter announced the city will employ a harsher strategy toward the movement.

In 2009, Penn rejected Confucius Institues, nonprofit branches that fund Chinese language and culture learning. However, as they spread to other universities and federal funding is being cut, Penn may approve a CI of its own.

Students came to Penn this weekend for the East Coast Chicano Student Forum, hosted by MEChA. Among featured speakers was Philadelphia’ LBGT Affairs Director Gloria Casarez.

Resolution ’12 has nearly 100 submissions of service-driven New Year’s resolutions. The project builds on last year’s Resolution ’11, started by University Chaplain Chaz Howard and two friends.

A Kaplan Test Prep study found that thirty-seven percent of law schools admissions officers check an applicant’s Facebook profile and forty-one percent search an applicant on Google.

The Assembly of International Students sponsored a Date Auction at Smokey Joe’s on Friday night. The event raised money for Project H.O.M.E., a local charity.

Over 100 students gathered in the Hall of Flags Friday night to take part in a game show organized by co-ed service fraternity Alphia Phi Omega. The event raised $700 for Doctors Without Borders.

Thursday night, members from the Dining Philosophers Computer Science interest group and Wharton Entrepreneurship Club held their first “HackerTrails” class, an entirely student-run series designed to help students learn the basics of HTML, CSS, Javascript and other computer fundamentals.

Despite glitches in course listings which led the student-run website — which lists professor and course ratings — to be suspended last week, Penn Course Review was up and running on Tuesday.

While protesters continued the efforts of the Occupy Philadelphia movement at City Hall, a panel of four addressed approximately 60 students Thursday night in the ARCH building to discuss one of the leading sources of national debate — urban poverty.