Some members of the senior class across the College of Arts and Sciences will write or have already written their senior theses.

Penn ended a five-game losing streak in a scrappy, hard-fought affair and a 65-54 win over Binghamton at the Palestra.

In an exclusive sit down with the DP, Junot Diaz spoke with reporter Shoshana Akabas on his book characters and the writers who influenced him in college.

By taking the time to forge relationships with seniors in the local community, students can learn how to ensure that seniors’ needs do not get overlooked in policy discussions.

Send one letter every month — to your grandmother or your best friend from high school who used to wish you Merry Christmas with a handmade card. Collect your letters, your responses, the envelopes and stamps. This project will bolster the postal system while brightening someone’s day.

Everyone wants to be associated with success. When they invest in something that blossoms, they take a share of it.

Diaz, the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer best known for his novel, “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao,” spoke to an audience of nearly 1,000 Penn students, faculty and Philadelphia residents last night in the Penn Museum’s Harrison Auditorium.

The men’s and women’s squash teams will be making the short trip down 33rd Street to take on Drexel in their first-ever meeting with the Dragons.

Sophomore Kara Bonenberger, a forward on the women’s basketball team, and her sister Alyssa spent their summer playing basketball in their hometown of Walnutport, Pa.

Although there is little doubt that Penn will be reaccredited, administrators are using the self-study as an opportunity for a thorough review of undergraduate education on campus.

When the Quakers face off against the Bearcats at 7 p.m. at the Palestra, crashing the boards and clogging the paint will be key to snapping their five-game skid.

Currently, only 21 out of 257 TFA corps members in the area are teaching in traditional public schools, with the rest teaching in charter schools — public institutions run independently by a board of trustees that can set its own curriculum.

College junior and Zeta Tau Alpha sister Jessica Stokes, the newly elected president of the Panhellenic Council, sat down with The Daily Pennsylvanian to discuss her plans for the upcoming year.

Since 2009, Penn’s Graduate School of Education has been working with Kazakhstani leaders on revamping their higher education system. GSE faculty and staff first advised leaders in anticipation of the opening of Nazerbayev University, which saw its first incoming class in fall 2010.

The Jaffe History of Art Building, located at 3405 Woodland Walk, won the campus building competition, with a total energy reduction of 21.6 percent. Stouffer College House, which reduced its energy usage by 14.5 percent, won the college house competition.

States still debating whether to set up their own health-exchange market or let the federal government do it received a one-month extension on Nov. 14 with a Dec. 14 deadline.

My living experience has proven itself valuable in more ways than I had expected.