What do murder, biological warfare and gentrification all have in common? They all helped shape Penn as a world-leading institution. “Becoming Penn,” a new book written by professor John Puckett and and University Archives and Records Center Director Mark Frazier Lloyd, presents Penn’s rise to an internationally-reputed intellectual destination. “For Penn to be attractive to... international audiences, it had to develop as a place that fostered the greatest number of incentives to students to study,” Lloyd said.

This year's ballot includes several candidates for the Pennsylvania state judiciary and five for Mayor of Philadelphia.

On Tuesday, CBS Congressional correspondent Nancy Cordes took a break from her busy routine to deliver the 2015 Annenberg Lecture entitled “Chasing the ‘Scooby’ Van and Tracking Trump to the Border: Covering the Wild Ride That is the 2016 Presidential Campaign.”

Penn’s loan default rate for undergraduate students is roughly 1.1 percent

Gutmann, for the second year in a row, remains Penn's highest paid employee for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2014.

In Philadelphia, gun threats shocked campuses in Center City and Germantown later in the week, following the Oct. 1 Oregon shooting.

In the end, Penn football's epic comeback happened too quickly.

Another overtime game, another conference win for Penn field hockey. For the third Ivy League game in a row, the Quakers needed overtime to get the result they wanted, this time making Dartmouth the victims of their extra time heroics, winning 3-2 in incredible fashion. Penn (9-1, 3-0 Ivy) dominated the first half, out-shooting Dartmouth (4-6, 0-3) 16-4 by the end of the period.

After a slow start to Ivy League play, Penn women’s soccer is preparing itself for a redeeming road trip up to Columbia on Friday.

The concert will take place at 7 p.m. on Oct. 22 at World Cafe Live.

Coming off a 41-20 loss in their Ivy League opener last Saturday, the Red and Blue (1-2) have one final non-conference game on tap before wrapping up their season with six consecutive Ivy contests.

Penn field hockey rode another exceptional Alexa Hoover performance to its eighth win of the season, toppling Lafayette, 5-0, in a midweek non-conference matchup at Vagelos Field.

Many Penn students will be relaxing at home this weekend for fall break, but the volleyball players will be on campus, and they certainly won't be resting.

As Penn men's soccer prepares to take on Columbia in New York over fall break this weekend, the team finds itself in an eerily familiar situation.

Anyone who has watched college football in the last decade show know that strength of schedule for teams on the national stage matters. A lot.

On Tuesday night, 2010 College graduate Lucia Liu spoke at a Wharton Women hosted event, describing her journey from a corporate job to starting her own chocolate company, Lululosophy.

On Monday, campus was abuzz with a Division of Public Safety notice warning students and faculty of a threat of violence against a Philadelphia university. More than 7,000 miles away, College junior David Scollan had barely heard anything about it.