Astronomy assistant professor Cullen Blake and graduate student David Sliski hope to discover planets orbiting stars other than the Sun.

The story of the Penn men’s tennis 2015 season is not one that can be told simply by looking at the team’s final record.

Thousands of people gathered at St. Anthony of Padua Church in Wilmington, Del. for the funeral of 1991 College graduate Joseph R.

2015 Wharton MBA graduate Julia Kurnik started her post-graduation life by working full time on the startup that she founded in May 2014.

Fifty years ago, after a long and sometimes bloody struggle waged by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and civil rights activists around the country, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act of 1965 into law. Put simply, this act prohibited racial discrimination in voting on both a state and federal level.

In recent years, the Penn community has been pushing toward reform regarding the treatment of mental illness, both bureaucratically within Counseling and Psychological Services and socially among students. We have seen agendas written up, sensitivity training initiated, and we’ve been urged to learn and relearn that it is okay to not be okay. But even so, at Pennsylvania Hospital, I found it difficult to reach out to my peers.

ANNEKA DECARO is a rising College sophomore from Austin. Her email address is annekaxiv@gmail.com.

Less than a month after the end of Penn's spring season, Penn Athletics has announced that women's rowing coach Mike Lane and men's heavyweight rowing coach Greg Myhr will not return in 2015-16.

Penn basketball took in its first transfer in years, recruiting sophomore guard Matt MacDonald from Fairleigh Dickinson.

We detailed for you a couple weeks ago how Asian-American students were at a disadvantage when applying to top schools. And for Michael Wang, that is a cold reality. Wang applied to Stanford and every Ivy League school other than Penn in 2013.

The Harvard Crimson conducted a senior survey and produced some interesting statistics about Harvard's Class of 2015. Here's some bullet points of the most interesting figures from the survey (To check out the whole survey, click here). 74 percent of black students felt marginalized because of their race while they were at Harvard. 3.64 mean reported GPA while 72 percent of those who responded felt that grade inflation wasn't a big problem. 19.5 percent admitted to cheating while recruited athletes were more likely to have said they cheated than the rest of the Class of 2015. 24 percent said they did not have sex while at Harvard. 14.4 percent of women said they had been sexually assaulted. Do you think these stats would be similar for Penn's Class of 2015? Do you think grade inflation is an issue at Harvard?

Between 800 and 900 Penn students participated in the Swipe Out Hunger campaign, which was able to garner a grand total of 1,535 unused meal swipes during its set donation days.

College Magazine recently named Penn the 10th most stressful college in America – citing Penn’s high price tag, the intense application process, and the high on-campus crime rate as evidence.

The five inaugural winners of the President's Engagement Prize will use this summer to prepare for their respective community engagement projects across the world. The President's Engagement Prize was announced last summer as part of Penn President Amy Gutmann's vision for students to engage with the world, as set forth in the Penn Compact 2020.

On Saturday, United States Vice President Joe biden announced that his son, 1991 College graduate Beau Biden died. 

The majority of Penn’s undergraduate population is off campus for the summer, resting up after a long and arduous school year.

On May 13, 1990 Wharton graduate Paula Kantor was killed in a Taliban attack on a guesthouse in Kabul, Afghanistan. She was 46.