The Wharton School announced in October of last year that 2001 graduate Sukanto Tanoto, along with 1960 graduate Alvin V. Shoemaker, was the recipient of the Wharton Dean’s Medal, one of the highest honors presented by Wharton. But Tanoto’s companies are affiliated with rainforest destruction and tax evasion.

The sequestration cuts set to happen this Friday would cut $40 million in federal research funds for Penn Medicine and may affect a generation of researchers.

In case you’re not one of Adam Aron’s more than 28,000 Twitter followers, the Philadlephia 76ers CEO and co-owner is not one to shy away from a challenge.

After a round of discussion last week, the official budget now proposes to give the Student Activities Council $1,065,790.13 —around a 6.5 percent increase from last year.

During Koop’s time as surgeon general, he was best known for his campaign against smoking. He also wrote an educational paper during this time about HIV and AIDS, when the disease was first subjected to public controversy.

The summer before his freshman year at The College of New Jersey, sophomore Ryan Dolan watched the movie “Limitless” on his flight down to Hawaii for vacation, and was inspired to create a real-life version of the pill that grants Bradley Cooper’s character superhuman power and focus.

Houston Hall has a complex recycling operation and has evolved over the years.

Maybe we should just be more open. The fall 2013 courses are up on Penn In Touch, and as I scan over the hundreds of listings, I’m trying to temper my graduation requirements with my intellectual curiosity.

Secularism as understood today, although a great idea in the West, isn’t always exportable. The problem is that secularism is not a neutral concept but has positive associations with modernity and democracy.

The Quakers were under the radar against Duke, but this time around they will be the favor as they face as St. Joe’s.

Brenza was a decided outsider to the track scene. But once he picked up a shot put for the first time, magic happened. Brenza’s hard work paid off in a big sense, culminating in a spot in Penn track history.

Senior Meredith Cain will lead the Quakers this year, but coming into college, she didn’t even know if she would even play lacrosse.

Since 2011, nine out of a total of 12 patients have responded successfully to the treatment, for which June — the Director of the Translational Research Program and the Richard W. Vague Professor in Immunotherapy in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the Perelman School of Medicine — was awarded first place in Men’s Health magazine’s “2012 Heroes of Health and Fitness.”

Penn Timebank to allow students and faculty to exchange services with each other.

There is currently no set timeline for launching the technology to the general Penn community, but the estimate is that it will take up to five years.

On Monday, the Wharton School and Cisco Systems, Inc. jointly unveiled for the first time the new “Cisco Connected Classroom” in Huntsman Hall with a live demonstration of the telepresence technology.

This research is groundbreaking both because it is the first to demonstrate that the Jagged-1 protein can assist in the healing process of human bones and provides insight into possible treatments for rare metabolic condition called Alagille syndrome.