Recent research suggests that the United States’ low life expectancy, when compared to that of other developed nations, is not due to problems in the medical system but to the high rates of smoking in the past.

Penn's Police Department is the largest private security force in the state with 116 full-time sworn officers. With its new hiring campaign, the Division of Public Safety plans to maintain this number.

With no script and no prompts, 12 current and former Penn students volunteered to share their most personal coming-out stories for the Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Center’s video, “Closet Confessionals”.

The School of Engineering and Applied Science’s new Market and Social Systems Engineering program will integrate systems engineering with the study of social sciences such as economics and finance.

Sunday night, the Undergraduate Assembly convened for the first time at the newly-renovated DuBois College House.

After spending his junior season in obscurity when injuries forced him to the sideline, Harvard senior running back Cheng Ho is once again taking center stage.

Almost one-quarter of the student body at Penn is pursuing a business or economics major.

“No more union busting,” read one of the banners at the Student Labor Action Project’s rally in front of College Hall and Steinberg-Dietrich Hall Friday.

Saturday night at Dillon Gym, the Quakers opened up their 2009 Ivy schedule by emphatically ending that trend, as it swept the Tigers 3-0.

For the Penn women’s soccer team, there is no such thing as an easy win.

For the first time in 48 years the Lions earned a road shutout over an Ivy League opponent, as they went to Princeton and came away with a 38-0 shellacking.

Three minutes into the second half against Cornell Saturday, junior goalie Ben Berg misplayed an attempted cross that floated over his head to gift the Big Red a 1-0 lead.

Over the weekend, the Penn field hockey team had two games, two overtimes, and two losses.

In one of the tightest races men’s cross country coach Charlie Powell has witnessed, 58 runners finished between 25:00 and 25:20 at Friday’s Paul Short Invitational.

Yesterday afternoon, the Penn Panhellenic Council held its tenth-annual Rena Rowan 5K Ribbon Run to benefit the Rena Rowan Breast Center.

Many campus groups have stepped down registration efforts for the Nov. 3 municipal primary because it is an off-year election.

One bad year shouldn’t deter colleges from adventurous, but risky, investing