Floating above the Earth’s atmosphere — 120,000 feet above ground — the Balloon-borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope, or BLAST, takes measurements of the stars and our universe. It now resides in the newly-completed High Bay BLAST laboratory located at 31st and Walnut streets.

With less than a year to go and $3.64 billion raised to date, Penn is in the final stretch of “making history.” However, while the Making History fundraising campaign reached its overall goal of $3.5 billion in September — over a year ahead of its scheduled close this December — many of its core goals and priorities have not yet been met.

If these videos exclusively targeted one particular group or gender, I would have questioned their humor. But as it turns out, just about everyone says that are worth making fun of.

Let’s talk about sex. Let’s talk about what it means to us, how it’s important in our lives and how we can begin to re-frame these conversations.

We refuse to believe that these are the only viable solutions to targeting piracy and urge this community to take a stance.

Marveling at the inside of the self-proclaimed ‘Cathedral of College Basketball,’ I was rudely awakened from my daydream when my red-and-black plaid Washington Nationals cap was roughly flipped off my head.

Last week, 14 Penn students attended the White House Asian-American and Pacific Islanders Youth Leadership Briefing, which involved about 200 high-school and college students from across the nation.

Penn’s first Speakeasy of 2012 started off with a full house and wacky raffle prizes like a black porcelain unicorn and “the soundtrack to Friends on a real CD.”

Advocates for Great Elementary Education was founded in the spring of 2011 to protest an enrollment cap at the Penn Alexander School on 42nd and Spruce streets that was put in place due to overcrowding.

Freshman Luona Wang and Wendy Zhao attended Vestavia Hills High School in Alabama and have fenced together for ten years.

Two Wharton School professors have detailed a set of threats to the future prosperity of the global economy in the 2012 Global Risks Report.

The event was hosted by Latitudes Reading Group, a Penn graduate student organization that hosts several speaker events on race and other sociological issues every semester.

In 2010, the month of December had four cited retail thefts, while 2011 had 15.

The building, which PLCB leased from a landlord, was “no longer a good option to have a store.”

These days, the Penn band, Quaker Girls and cheerleaders form the majority of the student contingent at many home games.

According to his Twitter bio, former Penn basketball player Justin Reilly is a “Wharton Grad. Entrepreneur. Poet. Activist. Writer. Retired D1 Athlete.”

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