Over a year ago the University Council Honorary Degree Committee started the process of picking the commencement speaker for the University of Pennsylvania’s graduating Class of 2016.

Shark Tank held closed auditions exclusively for Penn students, faculty and alumni on Saturday in Jon M. Huntsman Hall.

Two of the Red and Blue's women’s lacrosse players were honored by Inside Lacrosse this week as part of its year-long awards recognition. Senior attack Nina Corcoran and freshman defender Katy Junior received awards after being named on the All-ILWomen team and the All-Rookie team, respectively.

The Copa America is now in knockout mode, with the preliminary stages of the competition now finished. But last weekend, the tournament certainly had knockout vibes running throughout Philly as three teams said goodbye to their Copa America dreams.

José Arturo Bauermeister was appointed Penn's tenth Presidential Professor, President Amy Gutmann and Provost Vincent Price announced Tuesday.

When Penn women's basketball coach Mike McLaughlin had to hire a new assistant coach, he didn't have to look far.

Penn’s Abramson Cancer Center has teamed up this year with the Breakthrough Bike Challenge (BBC), an annual bike ride to support cancer research based in the Philadelphia area.

Akyra Murray was a star student and gifted basketball player recruited to play for Mercyhurst College in Erie, Pa.

In a race for the White House that has been anything but presidential, you do not have to look far for reasons to be disgusted.

The time to unite our party has arrived. If we don’t unite, we risk, as Senator Lindsey Graham put it, electing a “'race-baiting, xenophobic, religious bigot” by the name of Donald Trump.

It’s the end of an era for Penn men’s track and field. After years of service leading the rebuild of the Quakers’ men’s program, senior superstars Sam Mattis and Thomas Awad donned the Red and Blue for the final time on Friday evening, competing in the discus throw and 5000-meter run, respectively, at the 2016 NCAA Track and Field Champions in Eugene, Ore.  Mattis finished in second place in the men’s discus throw earning his third consecutive first team All-American honors, while Awad took 22nd place in the men’s 5000m to secure an honorable mention All-America spot. Penn’s evening was opened by Mattis, who was the presumptive favorite in his signature event all season after setting a still-standing American-born collegiate record with a gargantuan toss of 67.45 meters back at the Philadelphia College Classic in March – a full sixteen feet further than the next farthest throw by an NCAA athlete in 2016, courtesy of Kansas’ Mitchell Cooper. But Mattis – attempting to become Penn’s first two-time national champion since Bruce Collins won the 400m hurdles in 1972 and 1974 – struggled early on, barely advancing into the final flight with a first round mark of 57.98 meters.

Engineering graduate student Qi He went missing Sunday when he was glissading, or using an ice ax to control his slide, down Asgard Pass, a popular alpine hiking area near Seattle, WA.

While only 11 percent of Americans identify as ideological libertarians, they could make or break the race between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton.

The team may just be a club, but Penn rugby played in front of perhaps the biggest audience all year long of any Quaker sports team last weekend.

Penn men’s heavyweight and lightweight rowing competed at the IRA National Championship Regatta on Mercer Lake in West Windsor, N.J.

The Critical Language Scholarship program is a government program that identifies languages of need and sponsors students to study these languages in foreign countries. A highly selective program, its scholars spend 8-10 weeks immersed in their host family’s language and culture.

The stage is set in Philadelphia. The United States Men’s National Team has played in some pretty important and memorable games in recent history, notably including the last game of the group stage at the 2010 World Cup, which featured a famous last-minute winner from Landon Donovan to send the Americans through to the knockout rounds.