Diana Gonimah

Utsav Schurmans and his family are one of several “college house families” who call Penn’s college dormitories their permanent home. Living in a college house — and, for the children, growing up in one — is as normal and as “uniquely Penn” as one might expect it to be.

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.

The White House summer internship program, which began in May, brought together students from different educational paths at Penn.

The conference drew more than 100 college students and staff members from around the United States, including members of Programs in Religion, Interfaith and Spirituality Matters, Penn’s interfaith group.

The event drew designers, project managers, programmers and other IT professionals from all over the nation to Penn.

This semester, there were 21 undergraduate and nine graduate ABCS classes offered, three of which were new. VIDEO: Word on the WalkINTERACTIVE: Academically Based Community Service

College senior Megan Reed recently sat down with The Daily Pennsylvanian to reflect on her experience as the president of Penn’s chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

College junior Chris Cruz and Engineering sophomore Ibrahim Ayub hosted a general body meeting to relaunch Check One, a multiracial and multicultural organization that has not met for about a decade on Penn’s campus after being founded in 1995.

Last week, College junior Adrienne Edwards was elected the new chair of the Penn Consortium for Undergraduate Women — the umbrella group for women’s groups on campus.

Natives at Penn — a group that aims to celebrate Native American heritage and to increase visibility and awareness of native cultures on campus — hosted their third annual powwow at Wynn Commons Saturday afternoon. VIDEO: Natives at Penn PowwowGALLERY: Natives at Penn Powwow