Jillian Pirtle, Miss Black Pennsylvania 2011, visited Penn Medicine’s Heart and Vascular Center Friday for National Wear Red Day, a part of the American Heart Association’s Go Red For Women campaign designed to empower women to take charge of their own heart health.

A group at the School of Engineering and Applied Science invented AutoPlug, a way to connect cars’ electrical hardware to the internet.

Last Friday, Penn in Washington — the newly minted on-campus branch of the summer program — brought 54 students to Washington, D.C. for the day to expose them to employment opportunities and provide advice on getting jobs and internships.

Sunday marked the beginning of RecycleMania, the annual eight-week competition between Penn and over 600 colleges across the U.S. and Canada.

The women's basketball team lost to Harvard in double overtime, 88-84, on Saturday — the first time both men and women went into double overtime the same night.

On Friday, a crowd of all ages packed into Stiteler Hall to hear a panel discussion jointly sponsored by the Middle East Center, Center for Africana Studies, the African Studies Center and the Department of History on the popular uprising in Egypt.

Saturday's loss set a thick fog over campus — for the fans, at least. But the Quakers are focused as they look to Tuesday's matchup with Princeton.

Penn’s game against Harvard Saturday had everything you could want, except for the one thing the Quakers wanted: a win.

It’s been said many times that winning will bring the fans back to the Palestra. So here we are, with a Big 5 win followed by three consecutive Ivy wins.

In a 78-47 drubbing of Dartmouth Friday night, Penn showcased what it is capable of when firing on all cylinders with an excitement and intensity that has not been seen in several years.

Sweetgreen, a fast-casual restaurant with salads, wraps and frozen yogurt, will fill the spot between Bobby's Burger Palace and Kaplan Test Prep under the Radian. It is slated to open in May.

For many students, the incentive to enroll in classes depends less on interest and more on the necessity of the curriculum, with PSYC 001 having the highest number of enrolled students of any course at Penn.

In freshman her freshman season, Harvard's Laura Gemmell took the squash world by storm. She won 14 of 16 matches without dropping a game.

While universities across the country debate campus-wide bans on smoking, Penn's current policy prohibits anyone from smoking within 20 feet of any University facility.

In what is sure to be an exciting matchup, Penn basketball will take on Harvard University Saturday at the Palestra. So show up, get loud and go Quakers!

With so many Penn students looking for jobs in the finance, is it any surprise that reining that industry in generates little political excitement?

Although Penn offers undergraduates many resources for dealing with their academic, social and emotional issues, it could do more to help freshmen.