Jordan Huynh

On Friday evening, Columbia University professor Farah Jasmine Griffin celebrated the one-year anniversary of Penn’s Department of Africana Studies as the keynote speaker at the conference “Future of the Field.”

The Queer Student Alliance’s annual party will take place at the LGBT center on Friday.

New fraternity Alpha Sigma Phi is hosting a live show.

As the sun set over Wynn Commons, hundreds of students joined the Social Planning and Events Committee for their event titled “Throwback to the ’90s.”

For many, trying to find a balance between faith and proof can become a difficult tightrope act.In conjunction with the University’s “Year of Proof,” Penn Secular Society brought Carnegie Mellon University philosophy professor Andy Norman to speak Wednesday afternoon in a lecture titled “Faith, Proof and Everything in Between.”

Last night, Penn students and alumni joined together in the Amado Recital Hall at Irvine Auditorium to hear Asada’s stories from abroad. After studying in the Huntsman Program in International Studies and Business, Asada became a foreign service officer for the U.S. Foreign Service in Pakistan.

To introduce the group to campus, a conference titled “Consulting for Change” was held in Huntsman Hall on Friday morning, featuring Wharton professor Keith Weigelt, who is also the faculty advisor for CFA.

Students from five sketch comedy troupes and comedian Greg Proops joined forces in Harrison Auditorium for the Mask & Wig Club and Social Planning and Events Committee’s 15th Annual Intercollegiate Comedy Festival.

The Wharton Business Law Association planned the workshop in conjunction with Shell and the Wharton Management Club.

The new facility, scheduled for completion in mid-2014, will provide West Philadelphia with new outpatient medical facilities, research labs and office space for growing companies.