In a press conference held Wednesday, members of the Netter Center announced a three-year $900,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Health and the Office of Minority Health to fund Growing Together, a new nutrition-focused internship program.

Under Dow and Kothari’s leadership, the RDP — sponsored by Penn’s Greenfield Intercultural Center out of the office of the Vice Provost for University Life — will function as a grassroots organization aiming to compel the average student to think about race.

Rabbi Josh Joseph has been named the Vice President of Yeshiva University in New York City. This role will be added to his current position as YU Chief of Staff.

Two SEAS '08 and two Wharton '08 grads sold the company they founded as undergraduates.

Despite increasing numbers of women in the educational pipeline and workplace, the gender gap at the top of the corporate ladder remains wider than ever.

In an ever more globalized market, growing numbers of students and working professionals are flocking to overseas firms and organizations for internship experience.

Students graduating from the School of Social Policy and Practice weren’t the only ones who had the chance to see Vice President Joe Biden when he spoke at the SP2 commencement.

At the State of the School, leaders of the six student government branches spoke about past accomplishments, their plans for the spring and their creative talents.

University officials still do not know the cause of College senior Kenneth Nwannunu’s death last Wednesday. The Philosophy, Politics and Economics major passed away while studying abroad in Shanghai for the semester.

Theft June 7 - A male student, 24, reported at 9:30 p.m. that an unsecured personal item was removed from the door of his residence at 3900 Irving Street. June 8 - A female student, 23, reported at about 12:45 p.m. that her bike, secured with a U-Lock, was removed from Meyerson Hall, located at 210 S.

Police have arrested one male for allegedly attacking a 53-year-old maintenance mechanic during the May 30 flash mob around South Street. Stephen Lyde, 21, allegedly knocked the victim off his bike, rendering him unconscious with "internal injuries and skull, rib and facial fractures," Capt.

Close bonds lead to long lives in baboons A study conducted by Penn and University of California Los Angeles researchers found that close social bonds between female baboons, especially those between female family members, are associated with longer life expectancies in offspring.

This week, Computer World ranked Penn fourth in their national list of the 100 Best Places to Work in Information Technology. The University is also ranked first in the Mid-Atlantic region. "Our ranking is an indication of both the strong benefits that Penn provides to employees and of the vibrancy of the Penn IT community," ISC Vice President Robin Beck wrote in a statement, citing production of administrative and student products and services as one example.

The University was recognized by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency as one of the country's top 25 companies, universities and municipalities that have found creative ways to run on renewable power. Ranked at No. 19, Penn was the only university to make the list.

University President Amy Gutmann and incoming Provost Vincent Price announced Shelley Berger as the 10th Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor. Berger will hold appointments in the School of Medicine's Department of Cell and Developmental Biology and the School of Arts and Sciences' Department of Biology.

The divide between faculty and administrative agendas might be growing at universities across the country, but not all Penn professors believe the trend has affected the University.

On June 8, the death of a 26-year-old Philadelphia woman was reported to be the first death related to complications from swine flu in the city, according to the Philadelphia Department of Public Health's Division of Disease Control. Philadelphia Department of Public Health spokesman Jeff Moran described the woman as already "very ill" at the time of her hospitalization before succumbing to complications of a novel H1N1 influenza last Sunday.