Samantha Sharon

Engineering junior Amit Pujari and College junior Grace Truong were recently elected co-chairs of the Civic House Associates Coalition. The Daily Pennsylvanian sat down with them on Sunday to talk about their new roles and plans for the upcoming year.

On Feb. 12, 2014, the museum will open “ICA@50: Pleasing Artists and Publics Since 1963,” which will be a series of micro-exhibitions and events that will occupy the second floor of the museum until the summer of 2014.

Wendy Steiner, Richard L. Fisher Professor of English Emerita, got the idea for the opera after hearing a lecture at Penn by a historian who spoke about women’s secrets books from the Renaissance.

The current Miss Idaho, Sarah Downs, a 2012 College graduate, has been competing in pageants since age 17.

The Fringe Festival — showing until Sept. 22 — used The Rotunda and Van Pelt Library for performances.

Engineering freshman Kate Miller was awarded the AspireIT award by the National Center for Women and Information Technology for her idea of an only girls engineering, math and science program. Miller will teach the camp this summer.

A new and improved Gia Pronto will be opening today, just a few spaces down from the original store. While the new Gia Pronto was supposed to open in the beginning of the year, numerous construction delays set the opening date back.

On the vacant corner of 43rd and Sansom streets, Apartments at Penn, a local real estate company that specializes in student housing, plans to construct a 31-unit housing complex with one- and two-bedroom apartments.

On Tuesday and Wednesday, Penn’s Division of Facilities and Real Estate Services conducted four focus groups with representatives from Streetsense, a consulting firm working with the University, and Michael Salove Company, the University’s retail broker, to discuss how to improve University City’s retail offerings

A 25-story high-rise development will soon replace two historic brownstones at the corner of 38th and Chestnut streets.