The park, which officially opens Thursday, will add 14 acres to Penn’s campus and increase the University’s green space by 20 percent.

After seven years at Penn, June Chu — the director of the Pan-Asian American Community House — will be leaving her post to become the assistant dean of Undergraduate Advising at Dartmouth College in Hanover, N.H.

The future is uncertain for President Barack Obama’s newly proposed American Jobs Act, a half-trillion-dollar piece of legislation that aims to jumpstart the economy and lower the 9.1 percent unemployment rate.

The Presidential Bioethics Commission, headed by Penn President Amy Gutmann, determined the U.S. wrongly experimented on Guatemalans in the 1940s

In the Penn Patrol Zone, there have been 68 shoplifting incidents so far this year — 17 of which occurred at The Fresh Grocer, a 21-percent increase for the store from the same time last year.

This fall, the Engineering school launched a brand-new major — The Singh Program in Market and Social Systems Engineering.

DreamIt Ventures offers $5,000 to every new start-up they team up with, as well as an extra $5,000 per member. Additionally, DreamIt eliminates many of the hurdles that keep professionals from working on the “core” of their business

Penn Park, a 24-acre open space that combines traditional collegiate athletic facilities with casual recreation opportunities, will officially open on Thursday evening.

Over the next few weeks, an interim director will be appointed by the Office of the Provost which will also kickstart its search for a permanent leader for the ICA, according to the Provost’s office.

A woman unaffiliated with the University was robbed at about 8:50 a.m. in the second-story bathroom of the Evans Building, part of the Penn Dental School.

In addition, Wharton placed first in the ranking for undergraduate business schools.

Philadelphia City Council members introduced two redistricting maps on Sept. 9, following the presentation of citizens’ own redistricting proposals at a public hearing last week.

For Wharton School MBA hopefuls, a written application may no longer be enough.

For many years, Penn students used Blackboard and webCafé as their primary means of getting course materials from professors. But two new learning management systems may begin to rival the original two systems this fall.

It was business as usual at the first Undergraduate Assembly general body meeting of the semester on Sunday night, during which two internal elections took place.

The new director of the Abramson Cancer Center is putting his passion for interdisciplinary teamwork at the heart of his plans to foster research and improve patient care.

According to Career Services Director Patricia Rose, many students have transformed their summer internships into part-time jobs that they are performing remotely through the year and even indefinitely.