The Project on Government Oversight has asked Obama to remove Amy Gutmann as chair of his bioethics commission.

Passengers took 334 million trips using the service's system of buses, trains and trolleys in the 2011 fiscal year.

Incoming freshman races for U.S. Junior team in World Championships

Rising senior falls short at national tryouts but looks forward to coming season.

Penn loses top spot on Philly native’s list of schools after his highly impressive summer play

Weighing the arguments for staying in school and pursuing a pro career.

The Penn benefactor and wife of Raymond Perelman died Sunday morning.

Drexel University student Evan Morris died Friday morning, shortly after police found him with critical stab wounds.

A roundup of some of the crimes that occurred on campus last week.

A Penn institute that accelerates the process by which scientific discoveries are translated into practical applications for patients has been awarded $54.8 million by the National Institutes of Health.

The Pell Grant program, which is on the chopping block as lawmakers look to make spending cuts to resolve the ongoing debt ceiling crisis, may remain intact.

U.S. News released its 2011-12 Best Hospital Honor Roll last week, with HUP ranked tenth out of 17 hospitals selected from 4,825 nationwide.

With a mission to “make politics more simple,” two Penn graduate students are creating a startup that helps voters discover candidates who hold political views in line with their own.

The two main goals of the plan are to build a more diverse faculty and to create a more inclusive campus community.

The Rajendra and Neera Singh Program in Market and Social Systems Engineering — set to launch this fall with 20 incoming freshmen — will consist of computer science, electrical and systems Engineering and Wharton classes.

We commend the University’s Diversity Action Plan and hope that individual schools extend its tenets. The University should have a strong presence in the planning process for each school.

Philadelphia is giving its homeless policy a major overhaul — including closing shelters and how they handle homeless people — and it is not clear that they are for the better.