A Penn laboratory has successfully programmed the PR2 robot to scoop poop. “We wanted to do something difficult but utterly pedestrian, something that people could relate to,” third year Computer Science doctoral student Anthony Cowley said.

Flood waters that have been rising in Bangkok, Thailand, since July have displaced family members of Penn students. The Thai student association PennThai has been fundraising to aid those affected.

Consul General of the Republic of Korea in New York Young-mok Kim paid a visit to Penn yesterday for an event hosted by the newly endowed James Joo-Jin Kim Program in Korean Studies.

The all-female comedy troupe Bloomers joked that the CEOs of Google, Apple and Facebook will be present at their fall show, opening Thursday night. The show, titled “Goopleface: OCR We There Yet?”, will take a look at corporate America. GALLERY: Photos from behind the scenes of Bloomers’ show

StartUp Academy, launched this month through Bain Capital Ventures, matches students with a startup company. Although students often find startups a “risky” place to work, Bain matches students with companies they believe are “growing,” such as SurveyMonkey and Rent the Runway.

While he was a student at Penn, Larry Maltz spent his free time in the library. But unlike other students, he wasn’t poring over statistics or chemistry — he was reading. For fun. INTERACTIVE: Recent graduates’ career plans

Nearly 350 celebrated the renaming of the Medicine School after a $225 million donation made by 1940 Wharton graduate Raymond Perelman and his late wife, Ruth, where Raymond was also presented with a Medal for Distinguished Achievement from Penn.

Former Goldman Sachs director and ex-board member for Wharton’s Lauder Institute Rajat Gupta pleaded not guilty Wednesday to leaking insider information to 1983 Wharton MBA recipient Raj Rajaratnam.

There are a plethora of alternate career paths available to students with the initiative and desire to explore beyond what is immediately available.

Posting caloric information on restaurant menus doesn’t make people consume fewer calories, and it might actually be sabotaging people from making healthy food choices.

A Ph.D. student of economics at Wharton responds to what he sees as missing spots in the vision of Occupy Wall Street. TOPICS: Occupy movement

Why do you know who Kim Kardashian is? Does anyone actually care? Somewhere along the way, reality TV took a turn for the worse and wound up with her.

Each year, in partnership with Hong Kong’s Polytechnic University, 13 students travel with faculty to Hong Kong for two weeks where they treat disabled children throughout the area.

President Barack Obama announced a new “Pay As You Earn” proposal that will help students manage their loans. The program aims to limit monthly loan payments for 1.6 million college students and borrowers, according to a White House statement. VIDEO: Students sound off on loans

Over six classes in Wharton, the College and Engineering have undergraduate teaching assistants in introductory courses

The executive director of LifeSharers responds to an article, arguing that organs should be donated to other organ donors.

When the Quakers took on the Lions two weeks ago, Penn freshman Matt Schwartz was on the field with his twin brother Roy — on the opposing sideline.