In his first year of college basketball, freshman center Darien Nelson-Henry has quietly transformed his game, embracing a foreign role under head coach Jerome Allen’s philosophy.

Just a season ago — though it may seem far longer to fans — Penn finished a respectable 20-13, including 11-3 in Ivy League play. In investigating the Quakers’ collapse this year, the first question should be, what’s changed for the worse since?

Throughout the entire University, the proportion of women faculty members rose from 28.4 percent in 2007 to 30.7 percent in 2011.

Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett announced Friday that the state would award a 20-year contract to Camelot Global Services to manage the Pennsylvania lottery.

After piloting the system in fall 2012 with some classes, Penn administrators have brought the Course Absence Report system to a wider range of courses.

Manny Diaz, who served as mayor of Miami from 2001 to 2009, spoke Monday night to a room of sixty about growing up — and later governing — in that city.

Penn students concerned about sustainability can now fill up their water bottles at the new bottle filling station in Huntsman Hall.

Recent studies demonstrated that self-compassion is a more effective motivator for self-improvement than self-esteem.

I had never thought of the coffee I drank every morning as something exotic. I thought every country would have it, every bodega. I’d depended on it, really — I wasn’t prepared to go without it.

Although the number of influenza-like illness cases usually peaks in mid-January, according to Division Chief of Penn Infectious Disease Ebbing Lautenbach, this year’s national and local ILI incidence peaked five weeks earlier than last year.

On Jan. 10, the United States Department of Homeland Security issued an advisory recommending computer users to temporarily disable the latest version of the software, Java 7, on their computers.

Founded in 2009 as a relatively small group, Penn Shooting Club has seen its membership increase dramatically over a nearly four-year span. Today, the organization has about 600 students on its email listserv — and it’s continuing to grow.

Back when college football players didn’t wear shoulder pads and the most popular national sports were boxing and horse racing, Notre Dame and Penn were both competitive gridiron programs.

The Quakers have an overall record of 3-4 so far this season, coming off of two decisive losses to No. 3 Harvard and No. 8 Dartmouth. What’s missing? One answer could be international players, who in recent years have been the key to winning titles for most successful squash programs.

The women’s basketball alum (C’12) has moved from on the court action to the sideline as she transitions into her new careers as a teacher, coach, and broadcaster.

Size matchups have been a problem for the Red and Blue all season, especially as junior forward and captain Fran Dougherty has been sidelined with mononucleosis for the past five games.

The women swam past the Big Green for their third win of the season, 167.5-131.5, but couldn’t get past Yale, falling 176-121. Meanwhile, the men couldn’t get past either opponent, losing to 124-176 to the Bulldogs and 139-161 to Dartmouth.