On Aug. 10, Kojo Minta, 24, “was swept away beyond a small dam and eventually disappeared from two friends who were trying to save him.”

A two-day-old boy is on his way back to the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania after being taken by his mother around noon Thursday, and the Amber Child Abduction Alert has been lifted.

Rising College junior Colby Samstag suffered severe injuries after colliding with a vehicle during a race earlier this month.

The government deal on raising the debt ceiling may hurt some college students. The deal will result in changes that could make it more challenging for students to pay for the cost of higher education.

A team of Penn doctors may have discovered a significant breakthrough in cancer research.

A newly-enforced curfew in Philadelphia led to the apprehension of dozens of juveniles this past weekend.

Noted bioethicist Ezekiel Emanuel has been named a Penn Integrates Knowledge professor, the thirteenth professor to be selected for the interdisciplinary program.

A Penn student riding a bike was the victim of a hit-and-run accident near campus that sent him to the hospital on Monday afternoon.

Despite fearsome predictions and precautionary measures, Hurricane Irene left the Penn campus relatively undamaged.

Penn is postponing early move-in and pre-orientation programs until Monday in preparation for Hurricane Irene.

A magnitude 5.8 earthquake in Virginia rattled nerves but caused no damage or injuries on Penn’s campus.

DateMySchool, founded by Columbia Business School classmates Balazs Alexa and Jean Meyer, will officially launch at Penn later this month.

2011 College graduate and incoming Penn Design student Jason Goodman has established the first youth-run statewide LGBT organization in the country.

MacCarthy, currently the vice president for external relations at the University of Arizona, will be in charge of conveying information about Penn’s activities to internal and external stakeholders.

A reader wrote a letter in response to Penn’s Diversity Action Plan and thinks that it can only end in discrimination.

Can we always be ourselves, or is our environment a part of us?

Glorifying celebrities after their deaths glorifies their bad decisions.