As spring semester ended and students prepared to embark on their various summer journeys, one women’s soccer player had reason to be especially excited. Erica Higa, a sophomore midfielder for the Red and Blue, traveled to Rwanda alongside fellow Penn Athletics representative coach Kerry Major Carr of women’s volleyball and around ten other Penn students and faculty as part of the School of Engineering and Applied Science’s Rwanda Gashora Program. The program was created to explore the possibilities of using solar energy and information communication technology in low-resource communities in developing countries.

They made the cut. Seniors Tommy Awad and Sam Mattis are going to Eugene, Ore. to compete in the NCAA championships next week.

A lot of athletes might say they were born to play their respective sport. But a kid related to both the NCAA’s Division I-A single-season touchdown passing record holder and the winningest quarterback in Stanford history might have a slightly better argument. Such is life for California native and safety Conor O’Brien, who is one of 29 recruits joining Penn football’s Class of 2020 looking to help the Quakers begin their title defense. Needless to say, O’Brien needed no help being introduced to the sport.

The New York Times picked Philadelphia as the latest subject of its “36 Hours” travel series, and recommended starting out on Penn’s campus. Philadelphia was featured after locales like Oahu, Amsterdam, Southeast London and Louisville.

The federal corruption trial against U.S. House of Representative Chaka Fattah continued the week of May 23 - 26.

Penn Wharton China Center partners with the Philadelphia Orchestra for the 2016 Asia tour May 19-June 5. 

A new study by two Wharton students suggests that Cramer’s recommendations may not be all that useful to investors hoping to beat the market.

Vagelos Institute will inspire collaborative research efforts within the School of Arts and Sciences, the School of Engineering and Applied Science, and across many areas of the University to find solutions to energy related problems. 

This summer, Brazil will be simultaneously hosting the Olympics and the Paralympics as well as trying to fight the rapidly evolving mosquito-borne epidemic.

Philadelphia mayor Jim Kenney said city employees would be banned from traveling to states with anti-LGBT laws on official business.

Bemoaning the fact that “you can’t trust the news” is immature, rooted in the expectation that everyone universally is trying to be accurate — not trying to sell you something. Interaction with media is a two way street, and there is no excuse for pinning all the blame completely on newspapers.

UCLA has issued a campus lockdown. The LAPD said that the active shooter was in a UCLA building, Engineering IV, according to NPR.

This year, between 68 and 69 percent of students admitted to Penn's Class of 2020 committed to the school.

In the midst of complaints that the University was handling allegations of sexual violence poorly, especially allegations against members of the football team, Baylor hired the Philadelphia-based law firm Pepper Hamilton to conduct an independent review beginning in fall 2012.

What was once intuited by student culture has now been proven by data — Penn undergraduates have bad sleeping habits.

Fattah announced the award of a $510,000 grant to the University of Pennsylvania for the study of algebraic geometry and physics.

The Committee for Diversity and Equity, which advises and reports to the University Council, recommended that the University establish a First Generation Office for students who are the first in their families to attend college.