Former Annenberg School for Communication Assistant Dean and media critic Phyllis Kaniss died Friday, Dec. 17 from cancer-related complications. She was 59.

Police confirmed that a 20-year-old Drexel student jumped from a Hamilton Court building around 12 a.m. Saturday in a suicide attempt. His medical condition is not available.

Junior point guard Zack Rosen was named one of 66 candidates for the Bob Cousy Award. The award is given annually to the best point guard in any division of men's college basketball.

The U.S. Senate handed student activists mixed results this weekend, derailing the DREAM Act but putting an end to the ban on openly gay individuals serving in the military.

A Drexel University student fell from the third floor of a Hamilton Court building around 12 a.m. on Saturday, according to student reports.

A man speeding down 39th St. crashed into the concrete bollards between Walnut and Locust streets early Friday morning. No injuries were reported, and the man was arrested for DUI.

A new report released Thursday from Obama's panel on bioethics, chaired by Penn President Amy Gutmann, is calling for more transparency and oversight of synthetic biology research.

On Tuesday, the College of Liberal and Professional Studies announced a new program for summer 2011 in Grahamstown, South Africa. The program will accept 20-25 students.

Judith Rodin, who served as Penn's president from 1994 to 2004, was appointed to the White House Council for Community Solutions on Monday.

The 'DP' presents its end-of-year cheers and jeers, recapping all the great things that happened — as well as everything that went wrong — in the past several months.

One of the United Minorities Council’s initiatives this year is to bring the UMC to you. In an effort to promote the urgency and import of our mission, we’ve decided to introduce ourselves.

Unlike our counterparts stuck in college towns, we can learn more from Philadelphia than from any book or lecture given at Penn. The experience has the potential to change our lives.

With a bill passed Dec. 9 set to triple the tuition cap for universities across England, British students may have more of a reason to consider studying abroad.

Two Wharton profs and a first-year Applied Economics Ph.D. candidate argue that “measured subjective well-being grows hand in hand with material living standards.”

The Penn Wrestling team transitioned seamlessly from wrestling in tournaments to wrestling in duals, defeating Rider, 23-18, in their first dual meet of the season.

Whoever said that December is the most wonderful time of the year was probably not a college student.

After crushing Maine, 69-48, Friday, the Penn women’s basketball team enters winter break in a much different position than it did last season.