Vagelos Institute will inspire collaborative research efforts within the School of Arts and Sciences, the School of Engineering and Applied Science, and across many areas of the University to find solutions to energy related problems. 

This summer, Brazil will be simultaneously hosting the Olympics and the Paralympics as well as trying to fight the rapidly evolving mosquito-borne epidemic.

Philadelphia mayor Jim Kenney said city employees would be banned from traveling to states with anti-LGBT laws on official business.

Bemoaning the fact that “you can’t trust the news” is immature, rooted in the expectation that everyone universally is trying to be accurate — not trying to sell you something. Interaction with media is a two way street, and there is no excuse for pinning all the blame completely on newspapers.

UCLA has issued a campus lockdown. The LAPD said that the active shooter was in a UCLA building, Engineering IV, according to NPR.

This year, between 68 and 69 percent of students admitted to Penn's Class of 2020 committed to the school.

In the midst of complaints that the University was handling allegations of sexual violence poorly, especially allegations against members of the football team, Baylor hired the Philadelphia-based law firm Pepper Hamilton to conduct an independent review beginning in fall 2012.

What was once intuited by student culture has now been proven by data — Penn undergraduates have bad sleeping habits.

Fattah announced the award of a $510,000 grant to the University of Pennsylvania for the study of algebraic geometry and physics.

The Committee for Diversity and Equity, which advises and reports to the University Council, recommended that the University establish a First Generation Office for students who are the first in their families to attend college.

Fattah and four close allies are on trial for being accused of misusing federal grants, campaign contributions and charitable donations to pay off Fattah’s debts and assist his political career.

In the past couple of months, Penn Health has been the object of three separate lawsuits.

The University of Pennsylvania football team will be welcoming 29 members of the Class of 2020 onto their team this coming fall. The new student-athletes — sixteen defensive players, 12 offensive players and one kicker — hail from 13 different states. 

On Saturday, No.7 Penn women’s lacrosse ended one of its best seasons in program history with an 8-4 loss to unseeded Penn State.

Now that all of the times and marks have been recorded for the regular season, berths for the postseason have been confirmed — 16 track and field stars will be representing the Red and Blue in the first round of postseason meets, the NCAA East Prelims. 

Classes may have ended, but some students are facing finals of a very different variety. With the season coming to a close, Penn rowing has been competing in a host of monumentally important events, notching impressive results along the way.

There’s a wall at the center of the 2016 presidential election, but Mexico has nothing to do with it.