Penn basketball took in its first transfer in years, recruiting sophomore guard Matt MacDonald from Fairleigh Dickinson.

We detailed for you a couple weeks ago how Asian-American students were at a disadvantage when applying to top schools. And for Michael Wang, that is a cold reality. Wang applied to Stanford and every Ivy League school other than Penn in 2013.

The Harvard Crimson conducted a senior survey and produced some interesting statistics about Harvard's Class of 2015. Here's some bullet points of the most interesting figures from the survey (To check out the whole survey, click here). 74 percent of black students felt marginalized because of their race while they were at Harvard. 3.64 mean reported GPA while 72 percent of those who responded felt that grade inflation wasn't a big problem. 19.5 percent admitted to cheating while recruited athletes were more likely to have said they cheated than the rest of the Class of 2015. 24 percent said they did not have sex while at Harvard. 14.4 percent of women said they had been sexually assaulted. Do you think these stats would be similar for Penn's Class of 2015? Do you think grade inflation is an issue at Harvard?

Between 800 and 900 Penn students participated in the Swipe Out Hunger campaign, which was able to garner a grand total of 1,535 unused meal swipes during its set donation days.

College Magazine recently named Penn the 10th most stressful college in America – citing Penn’s high price tag, the intense application process, and the high on-campus crime rate as evidence.

The five inaugural winners of the President's Engagement Prize will use this summer to prepare for their respective community engagement projects across the world. The President's Engagement Prize was announced last summer as part of Penn President Amy Gutmann's vision for students to engage with the world, as set forth in the Penn Compact 2020.

On Saturday, United States Vice President Joe biden announced that his son, 1991 College graduate Beau Biden died. 

The majority of Penn’s undergraduate population is off campus for the summer, resting up after a long and arduous school year.

On May 13, 1990 Wharton graduate Paula Kantor was killed in a Taliban attack on a guesthouse in Kabul, Afghanistan. She was 46.

On Sunday morning the Awbury Arboretum in Germantown opened its doors to scurrying children in search of hidden treasures, a raffle full of attractive prizes and a lively picnic abundant with coffee and bagels. The event, Awbury Morning, was one of eight cancer fundraisers taking place simultaneously in different cities around the globe.

Without specific homeless outreach programs through the University, Penn students have attempted to alleviate some of the dire needs of Philadelphia’s poorest residents through original initiatives.

The DP sports editorial staff debate which fall sports team has the best chance of success. 

There is something missing from progressive social movements, city government and neighborhood-level decision making, and it is not Ivy League graduates. It is the participation of the communities we hope to “serve” on the frontline of the social issues that affect them the most.

A few weeks ago, 34th Street published an article detailing some aspects of cocaine use at our University. The story failed to make the connection between consumption in our own sheltered environment, and the violent drug cartels in developing countries that supply the drug.

Gupta, a first-year analyst at Goldman Sachs, was found in a parking lot next to his apartment building in San Francisco, Calif.

Harvard's engineering program is getting a new name — and a fair amount of money to go along with it. Harvard Business School alum and hedge fund manager John Paulson donated $400 million to the University to endow its school of engineering and applied sciences.

Texas' state legislature is passing a law to allow concealed handguns in the classroom. The campus-carry bill, which would allow students and faculty to have concealed handguns all around state campuses, is expected to be signed into law by Texas Governor Greg Abbott and would take effect starting in August 2016.  Texas would become the eighth state to officially allow concealed handguns on campus.