Former Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano received the Beacon Award from the Trustees' Council of Penn Women in recognition of her commitment to the advancement of women and gender equity.

A Penn team's plan for a student housing co-op was selected on Friday by city officials as the winning idea in a competition seeking to find ways to attract millennials to and keep them in Philadelphia.

One team came in with a patent for a hand-held machine to diagnose vision loss. They came in with chewing gum.Sweet Bites, a team of five Penn students, won the Hult Prize regional competition in Boston over spring break, making them one of the six remaining teams worldwide competing for the $1 million prize.

Can Hillel and J Street agree to disagree?

Last night in the Hall of Flags in Houston Hall, Students for Asian History Awareness — or SAHA — hosted an open discussion forum on a controversial stained glass rising sun image in the ARCH.

Imagine playing tetris with the Philadelphia skyline as a backdrop.

Over a hundred students marched beside one another last night at Penn’s annual event Take Back the Night, a peaceful protest to speak out against domestic and sexual violence.

All year long, we listened to the theme of how youth, inexperience, and a slew of injuries resulted in a rollercoaster 2013-14 season for Penn wrestling.

Hailing from Australia and a political scientist, the incoming Wharton Dean Geoffrey Garrett’s “unusual” background is said to be beneficial for the school.

Alumni weekend and a matchup against one of their biggest non-conference rivals is the perfect recipe to help Penn women’s lacrosse move on from some turmoil last weekend.

After a 4-0 start to the Ivy League season, Penn baseball will try to keep its momentum while going on its first road Ivy weekend of the season.

As the University prepares to permanently switch to Canvas software on May 30, many faculty members are feeling mixed emotions about the end of Penn’s Blackboard usage.

So if women are generally pretty generous with their ratings and they’re using the app to recommend their guy friends, crushes and ex-boyfriends to other women rather than to bash them for past experiences, why are men so afraid of it? Rather than being full of the vindictive reviews that men seem wary of, most Lulu scores are actually full of praise.

Research shows that when students are in distress, they turn to each other first — before they seek out parents, teachers or professionals. No mental health strategy will be successful without students at the core.

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The No. 15 Quakers will face off against Brown on Alumni day this Saturday in their fourth Ivy contest.

For Penn women’s tennis, this weekend is all about redemption, and on Friday, the Quakers will hit the road for a pair of back-to-back matches.