The combined hackathon allowed participants to build projects using both software and hardware.

Participants discussed a number of issues including homelessness, visibility and representation, gender neutral facilities and support within the juvenile justice system.

Last week, Penn Medicine announced the creation of its new Program for LGBT Health, an initiative dedicated to tailoring health care practices to the specific needs of the LGBT community.

This weekend 1,200 hackers came from around the world to participate in the PennApps Spring 2014 hackathon. One group made a homework machine. Another group improved on Siri. 

Facing tough competition that included Duke, Virginia, William & Mary and James Madison in a championship-style meet, Penn swimming was able to put forward strong performances

On Friday, the men’s and women’s teams posted a combined seven top-ten school records, as the Quakers put forward another impressive performance at the Lafayette/Rider Invitational

From dreadlocks to post-baccs and from rock bands to shaking hands, the “non-traditional” students of five Ivy League universities came together this past Saturday.The second annual 2014 Ivy Returning Students Conference was hosted at the Kislak Center on the sixth floor of Van Pelt-Dietrich Library.

Talking to someone inside four walls for an hour once a week should not be our only option. What we need right now is space to be together. And if we can’t do that outside College Hall, we will take to the internet.

Every single one of you reading this post is a blasphemer or a heretic to someone’s religion. The freedom of religion depends on the freedom to disagree with other religions. Blasphemy laws disallow that freedom in countless cases around the globe

Saturday night against Brown, with Penn methodically picking apart the Bears in the first half, the Quakers let the box score do all the talking.

Penn gymnastics celebrated Valentine’s Day with a little heart both on and off the mat.On Sunday afternoon at Hutchinson Gymnasium, the Quakers scored a season-high 190.850 en route to a second-place finish in the “Think Pink” meet.

Management 230 hosts Penn Restaurant Week. Featured restaurants include soul food restaurant Honey’s Sit n’ Eat, Pod and Barbuzzo Mediterranean Bar & Grill.

PROVIDENCE, R.I.- Penn basketball’s descent into the surreal began before the team even stepped foot into Brown’s Pizzitola Sports Center.In a sign of things to come, the team’s bus ground to a halt on Main street, unable to continue in the swirling snow.

In a game that was close from the beginning, the Bears found a way to light a fire in snowy Providence and down the Quakers, 62-55.

In a game that was over well before halftime, the Quakers dismantled Brown, leading by as many as 37 points before beating the Bears, 78-51

“Overly focused, it’s far from the time to rest now,” the rapper Drake insists on 'Pound Cake', a recent record.The same goes for Penn wrestling, a team that issued a 24-10 pounding of Ivy League foe Columbia at the Palestra on Saturday.

As the first day of PennApps comes to a close, check out some images from the hackathon.