For the third year in a row, Penn played host to the Urban Youth Lacrosse Jamboree, an annual celebration of community partnerships through sports competition. Behind the event was the Young Quakers Community Athletics program, an after-school initiative spearheaded by the Barbara and Edward Netter Center for Community Partnerships and Penn Athletics. Founded in early 2015 — but with roots going back to 2012 — the program has sought to pair up Penn athletes with West Philadelphia elementary and middle schools through mentoring and free access to Penn athletic resources.

Dan Leibovitz, a member of Penn’s class of 1996 and assistant coach for the men’s basketball team from 2010-2012, has just been named the Southeastern Conference’s Associate Commissioner for Basketball.

The women’s soccer program just released their schedule for the 2016 season, but you’d be forgiven if you thought they posted the wrong one. This season’s list of fixtures looks remarkably similar to last season’s, head coach Nicole Van Dyke’s first in charge of the Red and Blue.

I assumed Trump would understand the national electorate. I assumed he would adjust his strategy and pivot to the general election. I might have been wrong.

he College Board’s 6,000 member institutions — including Penn — are the only ones who can reasonably hold the College Board accountable. Universities should push the College Board to explain where all of those testing profits go.

The conviction marks a dark end to the career of one of the region’s longest-serving members of Congress.

After a month-long trial, a jury of four men and eight women will determine Fattah’s fate.

The media, at its best, is a vehicle for information. At its worst, it reflects the ugliest of our prejudices back at us, and I’m concerned over how the latter disguises itself as the former.

My mother is a lively woman with an infectious, uncompromising spirit.

Every great initiative begins with a good story. For the Mobile CPR Project, the story began three years ago in Radnor, PA.

Rising Wharton senior Marlaine Erhart found out about the shooting the night it happened, when she was out and about in the Gayborhood in Philadelphia. If she’d been home in Orlando instead, she could very well have been at Pulse.

"Some people said ‘this is the coolest thing ever’ and others were like ‘what are you doing, you’re ruining your life'."

Vegetables aren't the only thing celebrity chef Jose Andres roasts — Donald Trump and his stance on Mexican immigrants also received heat during the grand opening.

"Adding scholarship recipients from these countries will add both ethnic and, hopefully, socioeconomic diversity to the Rhodes community and to Oxford."

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.