Federal grants for student financial aid, the way graduate students will be able to pay off loans and federal research funding have been affected.

Ten percent of the class of 2011 reported that they were still seeking employment, compared to 14 percent at the same time last year.

New bathrooms, hallways, furniture and floors were installed in the college house this summer. The roof, stairs and lighting were updated and student rooms were repainted and outfitted with new window coverings.

Police restrained a woman before she could jump from the garage’s 10th floor roof Sunday night.

Incoming freshmen need not worry that the temporary 9 p.m. Philadelphia curfew will interfere with New Student Orientation.

This year, the number of Penn students admitted to the Fulbright United States Student Program nearly doubled, from 13 to 21.

Staff writer Julie Xie reviews Reality is Broken, the Penn Reading Project book for the Class of 2015.

Claudia Gould, who has served as director of the Institute of Contemporary Art on 36th and Sansom streets for over a decade, will be leaving to join the Jewish Museum in New York in September.

Seventeen Zeta Tau Alpha members will reside in a newly renovated house on 40th and Walnut streets. The residence was originally home to deactivated sorority Phi Sigma Sigma.

Heavy rains and sewer damage hindered the $5.4M Locust Walk construction, initially slated to be completed by Sept. 30 but now delayed until the end of the semester.

Located at 3940 Spruce St., the Transplant House opened July 18 as a guest house for the families and loved ones of patients receiving organ transplantation at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania.

Ramadan involved fasting during the day and sharing a meal with family and friends at night.

The University of Sciences in Philadelphia issued three alerts to its students between 10:30 p.m. and 1:30 a.m. Monday night regarding an armed assault and a possible armed robbery.

For pre-orientation programs — the biggest feeder of early move-in students on campus — the show must go on, hurricane or no hurricane.

On Aug. 10, Kojo Minta, 24, “was swept away beyond a small dam and eventually disappeared from two friends who were trying to save him.”

A two-day-old boy is on his way back to the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania after being taken by his mother around noon Thursday, and the Amber Child Abduction Alert has been lifted.

Rising College junior Colby Samstag suffered severe injuries after colliding with a vehicle during a race earlier this month.