Former Panamanian president Dr. Nicolás Ardito Barletta attracted nearly 200 students to a Huntsman Hall classroom last night. The current Director of the Executive Board of the Bank Superintendence of Panama briefed the students on the Panamanian economy and its role in the increasingly globalized world economy.

Crave, a bar and lounge located in the back of The Rave movie theater, opened its doors Wednesday afternoon.

While both Drexel and Penn have big plans for the future, both institutions are working cooperatively — but independently — to develop West Philadelphia.

To the surprise of many, the Pennsylvania State Supreme Court — which has a Republican majority — remanded the redistricting proposal on Jan. 25, sending it back to the Commission, saying that the plan was “contrary to the law.”

Through the Open Data Initiative, students are requesting access to the University’s data to be able to use it to create applications that would benefit the community.

While some peer schools are hedging their bets that online education is part of the future, Penn is taking a more decentralized approach.

With a 57.6 percent increase in bike thefts from 2010 to 2011, Penn’s campus seems to be a hot spot for bike thieves.

Tonight at the Inn at Penn, the Society of Women Engineers will hold its 15th annual corporate dinner where it will discuss career opportunities for female Engineering students.

A growing number of professors are using clickers — electronic polling devices that allow teachers to get real-time responses from entire classes — to track student attendance at lectures.

Researchers are once again citing cell phone use as an obstacle to good health. But the new concern is not another type of cancer nor a fatal disease — it’s neck and back pain caused by texting and checking email on smart phones.

MAN-UP — the Male Association of Nurses at the University of Pennsylvania — is currently in the process of establishing a new chapter of male professional nurses with the American Assembly for Men in Nursing.

Today begins Feb Club, a tradition that celebrates each day of the last month the senior class has together.

Mitt Romney coasted to a victory in the Florida primary yesterday, reclaiming his title as the frontrunner of the Republican presidential race. Romney, the former governor of Massachusetts, received more votes than his two closest competitors — former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich and former Pennsylvania Sen.

After the closing of the liquor store near campus, students now have another alternative for procuring alcohol. Last week, College senior Alex Ball created Penn Delivers, a new alcohol delivery service.

Pour some sugar and get your sweet tooth ready, because this year’s Spring Fling theme is “Fling Never Tasted So Sweet,” the Social Planning and Events Committee announced on Wednesday. VIDEO:Word on the Walk: Spring Fling Theme

The MyHeartMap Challenge, which will run until Mar. 13, aims to draw awareness to automatic external defibrillators in the Philadelphia county. Through a scavenger hunt open to the public, the contest offers monetary prizes to groups that can locate the most defibrillators — machines that release electric shocks to the heart to restore normal heart rhythms after cardiac arrest.

Following Penn’s 1.7-percent drop in overall applications for the Class of 2016, Harvard, Princeton, Brown and Columbia universities have announced decreases of 1.9, 1.7, 7 and 8.9 percent, respectively. INTERACTIVE: Ivy League Admission Rates