After an autistic patient was denied a heart transplant at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, his mother has started a petition to reverse the decision and place her son on the transplant list.

Last week’s fire at the Hamilton Court will not be disruptive to students moving in this week, University City Housing said.

Eight students from communication class “Conventions, Debates and Campaigns,” are in Tampa Bay, Fla., this week to experience and report the RNC.

Firefighters arrived to contain a fire in the Hamilton Court Apartments at 39th and Chestnut streets early Tuesday morning.

Almost five months after Khadijah White’s arrest, the District Attorney dropped all charges at yesterday’s court hearing.

Last week, the University announced an exclusive, multi-year global research and licensing agreement with Novartis to expand the number of new cellular immunotherapies for cancer.

Meyer was a philosophy professor at Temple University and received his doctorate from Penn.

The robber wielded a weapon, but there were no injuries to the victim, who was unaffiliated with the University.

The Aurora, Colo., massacre gives a renewed sense of urgency over the role of firearms in American culture. Being situated near a hotbed for violent crimes, Penn students in particular have a big stake in the debate over gun control.

Our generation lives on the internet. We wake up to new iMessages, “friending” people is an almost necessary social exercise, we are expected to respond to emails instantly and many of us run our own blogs. And suddenly I could not access any of that.

While today’s hot social media sites, Twitter and Facebook, serve mostly to feed our vanity and self-absorption, the blogosphere often provides a more productive outlet.

Penn doesn’t have a varsity figure skating team. But maybe now that 2012 graduate Ami Parekh is looking to become the first figure skater to go to the Olympics from the University, they may look to promote the club sport.

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Three of the four goalies who were selected had previously played on the national team. Leitner, who graduated in the spring, knew going in that the competition was going to be very tough.

Like Voiro and Van Roten, Barreiro said that while it’s not easy to go from Penn to the big leagues, persistence is the key to making it.

For the past two years, Penn’s ranking has shifted dramatically, dropping from 36th place in 2010 to 52nd place in the 2011 ranking.

Using a design that integrates features from Blackboard, Facebook’s timeline, LinkedIn’s profile and Google Calendar, Lore is ready for use by professors for the upcoming semester.