Taking interest in student ideas, professors are helping launch students’ careers by investing money in startup companies

Though seniors Zane Grodman and Vidur Kapur did not win an Ivy title this year — nor any in coach Andy Ma’s three-year tenure — they helped the team come together during a tumultuous period, leaving Ma in excellent position for future seasons.

The Quakers beat Villanova Wednesday afternoon to get their first win against the Wildcats since 2009.

While the final score was an 11-9 Hoyas victory, the most important number of the night was 17, the amount of turnovers the Red and Blue committed.

Palestra custodian Dan Harrell plans to retire at the end of this school year after 23 years tending to the Cathedral of College Basketball.

Beginning Thursday, senior Brendan McHugh will compete in the NCAA men’s swimming championships in Seattle, Wash.

A Daily Pennsylvanian reporter checks out multi-company workspace Independents Hall — or IndyHall, as it’s also known — in this reporter’s notebook.

Penn Excelano Project, created in 2001, is one of the top collegiate spoken word poetry groups in the nation. In April, members of the group will be traveling to California for the College Unions Poetry Slam Invitational, one of the most elite spoken word competitions in the country.

When I sat down to chat with Dan Savage on Monday, he readily admitted that he can be quite inflammatory — but said that his strategy doesn’t obscure the bigger picture of fighting for LGBT equality.

The easiest thing to do when a campaign like KONY 2012 is brought to our attention is to pick apart everything that’s wrong with it. KONY isn’t perfect and its creator, Jason Russell certainly isn’t either — but neither is a world in which every day, children are kidnapped, sexually assaulted and forced to murder their parents.

Eater Philly reported yesterday that Chinese restaurant Han Dynasty will open another restaurant at 37th and Market streets — the University City Science Center.

The Daily Pennsylvanian recently sat down with Dan Garofalo, Penn’s lead environmental sustainability coordinator, to take a closer look at his role in implementing Penn’s sustainability initiatives.

It will be pitching that the Quakers will turn to as they take on Lehigh in a midweek doubleheader Wednesday afternoon at 2:30 p.m.

Rosen is a unique player. Listed at 6-foot-1, 170 pounds, it’s easy to knock his athleticism. But somehow, that doesn’t matter. For Rosen, it’s all about his mentality.

This past summer, Penn’s Center for High Impact Philanthropy joined a coalition of more than 115 other institutions that plan to train and retain a group of 100,000 STEM teachers as part of the 100Kin10 Challenge.

Arab Spring? A “psychological rupture” is a more fitting term for the chaos in the Middle East, according to political analyst and London School of Economics and Political Science professor Fawaz Gerges.

The Nursing School recently launched “Game Solutions for Healthcare” initiative has called for all Penn students to create games together that have the potential to improve the health care field, especially in nurse-patient relations