Deputy Dean for Education in the School of Engineering and Applied Science Vijay Kumar has helped lead the recent creation of a number of “quadrotors.”

Playing in its first postseason appearance since 2006-7, Penn continued what they have done much of the season and found a way to fight another day.

Fatimah Muhammad, a 2006 College graduate and former associate director of Penn’s Greenfield Intercultural Center, is running for state representative of the 188th District — an area that circles almost all of University City.

With half a year behind them, Penn’s religious organizations are preparing for the second leg of this year’s White House Interfaith and Community Service Campus Challenge.

According to the Office of Admissions, the alumni interview is completely optional and about 6,500 Penn alumni will interview only half of all applicants per year based largely on geographic location and the number of volunteer interviewers.

Philadelphia Police arrested and detained Wharton sophomore Tania Chairez — an undocumented immigrant — at a protest this afternoon.

Check out reactions to the choice of Passion Pit as this year’s opener for the Spring Fling concert.

Passion Pit will open the 2012 Spring Fling concert. The Social Planning and Events Committee announced their choice today via the website whoscomingtofling.com.

SPEC-TRUM, the Social Planning and Events Committee To Represent Undergraduate Minorities, hosted Ansari for their annual spring event.

Four rookies were among the top six players in minutes for the Quakers this past season: guards Renee Busch and Jackie Kates and forwards Katy Allen and Kara Bonenberger. The four freshmen had 62 starts combined.

Three members from last year’s graduating class have been playing professional basketball around the globe, from Germany to Spain to Mexico.

Students gathered in the Kelly Writers House on Tuesday to spend their lunch with a very special guest — the former executive editor of The New York Times.

Harter grew up in Pottstown, Pa., only 40 miles northwest of Philadelphia and enrolled at the university in the School of Education. He was a reserve guard on the men’s basketball team before graduating in 1953.

Find out what crimes happened on and around campus from March 2-8.

Wednesday afternoon the beautiful weather will provide Penn softball with a picturesque backdrop in its home opener against Saint Joseph’s in the first game at the new Penn Park stadium.

The James Joo-Jin Kim Program in Korean Studies is “providing important operational support this year for the program,” according to School of Arts and Sciences Dean Rebecca Bushnell.

It may not be the NCAA Tournament, and it may not be the NIT, but the Quakers begin their postseason Wednesday in the College Basketball Invitational against Quinnipiac at the Palestra.