Sister Pauline Silver Acayo, a Catholic Relief Services' Peacebuilding Officer in Uganda, spoke at Leadership Hall on Friday to discuss the current peacebuilding efforts in Uganda. Acayo has been working as a Peacebuilding Officer in Uganda since 2002. She started her presentation with the background of Uganda.

This year, students are clicking their way toward a more interactive classroom environment, though some think the costs outweigh the benefits. This semester is the first in which many School of Arts and Sciences professors are requiring students to purchase "clickers" - small devices that allow professors to collect and display data from students during class time.

That 9 a.m. math class just got a little better. Three lecture halls in the David Rittenhouse Laboratory will be renovated next summer. Rooms A1, A2 and A4 will be renovated in time for the fall semester. While A1 will become a 240-seat classroom, the capacity of A2 and A4 will be increased to 80 seats each.

Fifteen year-old Logan Levkoff's parents pulled out bananas and condoms one evening in 1991- - during the onset of the AIDS crisis. Her parents declared, "You are going to learn how to do this," and from that night on Levkoff has been educating peers, parents and pupils about sex.

You may know him best as the Silver Fox. Or as the host of CNN's Anderson Cooper 360. But he prefers to be known simply as Anderson, a non-partisan news anchor who considers himself privileged to have his job - a job he did not know that he would want upon his 1989 graduation from Yale as a political science major.

"Look around this room," said Samuel Griffin, president of the male singing group the Orpheus Club of Philadelphia. "We are Bruce's children, we will carry on what he did . he will be there everywhere we are." Bruce Montgomery's impact on the Penn community as the school's longtime director of musical activities was the theme his memorial service yesterday.

"If Botswana does not tackle its AIDS problem head on, then the country will not survive," announced then President of Botswana Festus Mogae in 2000. Now, at the end of Mogae's decade-long presidency earlier this year, Botswana is at the forefront of the continent's battle with AIDS.

The long road to a university presidency has been getting longer. According to a recent survey, the amount of time it takes to progress through the ranks of academia is increasing, resulting in older presidents, said Jacqueline King, the assistant vice president of the Center for Policy Analysis of the American Council on Education.

Penn graduates make a hefty salary - but not as much as their counterparts at Harvard and Princeton universities, according to a recent study. The online global compensation firm PayScale conducted a study earlier this summer that compared the incomes of graduates from the Ivy League schools.

While visiting Pottruck seven days a week will burn calories, people often forget that a large part of staying healthy has to do with consuming nutritious food - not just eliminating carbs or candy. Finding fresh produce might at first seem difficult in West Philadelphia, but in fact it's possible at Clark Park, located on 43rd and Baltimore streets.

Though hundreds of companies come to campus to recruit interns and employees each year, many are narrowing their search to reach a more diverse group of students. Four of these companies - Google, Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch and PepsiCo. - did just that with a recruiting event in Irvine Auditorium hosted by Lime Connect, a company that helps companies recruit students with disabilities.

As more students turn to energy drinks to help pull all-nighters, health concerns about the beverages are also on the rise. The energy drink industry raked in $477 million in 2006-07, a 34-percent leap from the previous year, according to an Information Resources report.

From the sexing of fossils to horses' harems, Stanford history of science professor Londa Schiebinger spoke on gender in science and engineering in College Hall. The largely female audience heard Schiebinger's manifesto for the sciences. She began with the relative lack of women in science - "the woman problem" - by noting that past solutions focused on teaching women to act more like men and "left the man's world unchanged.

Penn Medicine's newest facility, the $302 million Raymond and Ruth Perelman Center for Advanced Medicine, formally opened its doors yesterday evening. The building's lofty atrium was host to the opening festivities, where food, drink and a live band kept guests content.

For the Divine Nine, it's till death do us part. Membership within the Greek world is for life: once a member, always a member. But membership within the nine historically African American sororities and fraternities, known collectively as The Divine Nine, is for life - and then some.

Though the government is likely to simplify the federal financial-aid program, next year's political turnover makes it hard to predict the possible changes. As of now, shortening the Free Application for Federal Student Aid appears to be the change most likely to occur.

Some environmentalists are at a fork in the road concerning whether urban or rural areas are tops at producing harmful pollutants in the atmosphere. A recent report from the Energy Information Administration - which provides governmental energy statistics - shows that, since 1980, industrialized areas in some states have significantly reduced their carbon footprints, and in many cases, produced fewer carbon emissions than their residential neighbors.