The society has already tapped its potential members, and its first recruitment event, called "a smoker," was held on Wednesday night. Within a week, Hexagon will welcome their newest group of members. 

Every semester, Penn students undergo the wallet-depleting ritual of buying expensive required textbooks — but what happens when assigned textbooks are written by the course instructor?

For the second time this school year, Penn writing professor Kenneth Goldsmith has made headlines for his eccentric work.

Online content, which is published at a faster rate, can affect the tenure decisions and the amount of information accessible to students.

For many Penn students, Spring Break is no break at all.

Without the option of merit-based scholarships, Penn cannot lure outstanding athletes or writing prodigies with money — but recruited students do find value in community.

Recitations don't lead themselves — at the front of the classroom, teaching assistants must balance their responsibilities with their student obligations.

For a few Penn professors, politics is not only something to teach — it’s something that runs in the family.

Wharton’s Department of Student Life decided cut the cohort program to only include freshman and sophomores.

The English Department has received a flurry of praise in recent weeks, including a No. 2 ranking in the country from College Factual. But New York Times opinion columnist Frank Bruni did not speak fondly of the department in a Feb. 18 op-ed.

Any student who had already declared the Cognitive Science major, however, would not be asked to switch.

Five Engineering seniors are changing the life of an 8-year-old boy while revolutionizing the field of 3-D printed prosthetics for their senior project.

An internal review committee at Penn reported to the Journal in June that the error was unintentional.

After visiting Penn last spring, Buzz Bissinger, a 1976 College graduate and long-time Philadelphian, was inspired. Bissinger will be teaching a non-fiction creative writing course at Penn next semester.

The Medical College Admission Test has been significantly altered for students taking the exam from 2015 onwards. The new version of the exam is longer and will cover more subjects.

Not all Wharton undergraduate alumni come back to campus just for homecoming weekend. Some return for two more years to earn three more letters: MBA.

Vijay Kumar has been named the new dean of The School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.