The preliminary yield for the class of 2013 is 63 percent - the same as last year - according to Dean of Admission Eric Furda. This statistic, however, is down from 66 percent in 2007. Penn enrolled 19 more students than expected, according to an article in the Philadelphia Inquirer.

From sumo wrestling to mechanical bull riding, the third annual GradFest was in full swing last Saturday. The day-long event for graduate students, organized by the Graduate and Professional Student Assembly, took place at Wynn Commons and in Houston Hall.

PhillyCarShare recently announced that it has added a monthly fee for its services. According to an e-mail sent to customers, the company began to "streamline" their services into a monthly plan on May 1. Members who pay the $15-dollar monthly fee will get "the lowest PhillyCarShare hourly rates" - from $3.

Student Activities Council will fund some political and religious groups for the first time in the upcoming year. Budgets for the Penn Democrats and PRISM, an interfaith religious group, were both approved at SAC's annual meeting on April 22. Though political and religious groups have historically been denied University funding, the issue became particularly salient when political groups spent a large amount of money funding events during the election last year.

Updated May 8, 6:41 p.m. The CDC has confirmed two cases of swine influenza in Philadelphia. Neither of the two patients became sick enough to be hospitalized, however, and both are recovering, according to the Philadelphia Department of Health. Nine probable cases of swine influenza have now been reported in Philadelphia, though the infection has not affected the Penn community.

Former Wharton undergraduate Irina Malinovskaya was released from prison Friday after serving a sentence for manslaughter, according to John Painter, a spokesman for the Delaware Department of Corrections. Malinovskaya, 27, pleaded no contest to manslaughter in June 2008 for allegedly bludgeoning her ex-boyfriend Robert Bondar's then-girlfriend, Irina Zlotnikov, to death.

This weekend, a concerned group of Penn faculty brought experts on climate change together to inform the Penn community about the challenges and opportunities that climate science presents. The event, "Symposium: Responses, Risks and Adaptation to Climate Change," was held Friday morning and afternoon in the Chemistry building.

Amputations from wound infections might become obsolete because of four Penn students. The four students won $20,000 in Wharton's 2009 Business Plan Competition last Wednesday with their device that monitors the wound-healing process. The team of students, called NIR Diagnostics, comprised MBA students Pitamber Devgon, Xiaoming Fang and Bosun Hau and School of Medicine Ph.D. student Armen Karamanian.

Beginning June 1, Research scientist Loa Traxler will step into the position of the Andrew W. Mellon associate deputy director of the Penn Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, announced last week. When she takes on her new position, she will end her work as a research specialist in the American Section.

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College senior Hannah Marcus knew she had something when she stumbled across 2,200 pages of a medieval manuscript in Bologna, Italy, that nobody had ever really written about or even read. So she decided to. The history major and religious studies minor turned the 16th century manuscript about the cross of Christ by Renaissance scientist Ulisse Aldrovandi into her senior thesis project - and now has 111 pages of her own on the topic.

The Division of Public Safety's Walk-Back Program will return this year during Reading Days and final exams. From April 29 to May 12, a Penn Police officer will be posted at the Button on College Green and will enter Van Pelt Library every half hour from 11 p.

Though almost all students graduating from Penn Law have secured full-time jobs, about a fifth face staggered starting dates and may have to go for as long as a year after graduation with no full-time job. Those deferred will receive moderate stipends to do public service work while waiting for their jobs to start. As a result, many will have to delay repaying student loans and find alternative health insurance until the deferral period ends.

The Undergraduate Assembly made it a priority this spring to find out what students want by polling students with the Survey of Undergraduate Priorities. However, only a small percentage of undergraduates actually responded, leaving some UA members to question the findings.

May 1, 12:14 p.m. Former Wharton undergraduate Irina Malinovskaya was released from prison today after serving a sentence for manslaughter, according to John Painter, a spokesman for the Delaware Department of Corrections.