Jessica Steel, Pandora’s executive vice president of business and corporate development and a 1996 College graduate, came to speak in Huntsman Hall to a group of about 40 students.

After Thanksgiving, the Social Planning and Events Committee will host electronic musician Baths alongside chiptune indie rock band Anamanaguchi and electronic indie artist Ki:Theory at the ARCH auditorium.

Students and staff have been working to increase the number of gender-neutral bathrooms across campus.

The Neural-Behavioral Sciences building, slated to be the next hub for life sciences on campus, hopes to allow the Biology, Psychology and Biological Basis of Behavior departments to interact in unprecedented ways.

School of Design professor and renowed architect James Timberlake was nominated by President Barack Obama to serve on the National Institute of Building Science Board of Directors last month. The ‘DP’ sat down with him to discuss his philosophy on architecture.

Entrepreneurship is not just for Wharton kids. College freshman Monica Kwok is celebrating the continuing success of her one-month-old clothing line called Monumentality.

Occupy Wall Street marchers arrived in Philadelphia on their way to Washington, D.C.

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.