On Wednesday afternoon, administrators, faculty and students met in Houston Hall for the University Council’s second meeting of the year. 

The five-year action plan consists of a series of initiatives designed to engage students and faculty in tackling the challenges lying in the way of a greener campus.

Penn President Amy Gutmann announced today the launch of the President’s Innovation Prize, an opportunity for Penn students to apply their entrepreneurial ideas to the real world while also making a difference.

Tasked with everything from Zamboni-driving to gardening to glassblowing, here are a few roles you might not know existed at Penn, and the people who make them happen.

The national media won’t be the only ones scrutinizing Donald Trump’s every move at Wednesday’s debate.

Penn students are at Penn by their very nature of knowing that grades are important. There’s a reason that the average GPA of an admitted high school student is a 3.9.

Laura Butler is tired of tech being portrayed as a horror story. Instead, she believes it to be a romance.

Penn’s chapter of Amnesty International gathered by the Button with candle light vigils to commemorate the tens of thousands of Sri Lankans civilians still unaccounted for. 

On Tuesday, 1978 College graduate Everett Gillison, Chief of Staff in the Mayor’s Office and former Deputy Mayor of Public Safety Office, spoke to students about community, crime and public safety. 

The DNC will be one of the largest public events ever held in Philadelphia, with an estimated 50,000 people expected to attend the week-long convention.

Penn continues to not comment on whether it will revoke disgraced entertainer Bill Cosby's honorary degree. 

“Next Stop: Democracy” is a new civic engagement project which has hired 60 Philadelphia artists to create eye-catching “vote here” signs for the upcoming City Council elections on Nov. 3.

At a local elementary school on Oct. 23, members of Penn's Stimulus Children's Theater, or STIM, performed numbers from their upcoming Fall Show “Junie B. Jones: The Musical” as their community show. 

Tallying a 4-1 record in such closely contested games shows that Penn is capable of literally running circles around its opponents deep into games. This level of fitness and stamina is new for the Quakers, thanks to a revamped strength and conditioning program and the help of Penn Athletics’ new SpartaTrac training system.

SOPHIA OAK is a College senior from Honolulu. Her email is oakj@sas.upenn.edu.

Penn employees cook your meals, these employees haul your trash. These employees teach your students, they collect your scientific data, they clear leaves on Locust Walk.

Recently, negative talk surrounding fraternities and sororities raises questions about why we are relevant.