Pedro Rivera is a Philadelphia native and former teacher and principal in the School District of Philadelphia. 

An all high school team competed in the health hack with their app “Helix,” an app designed to streamline the directions patients receive from their doctors. The app won best overall health hack and best consumer health hack.

The Supreme Court will hear an appeal to the 6th circuit’s decision to uphold gay marriage bans.

It's apt to think of a collegiate track team like a car: if left to sit alone in a garage for the winter, it mostly likely won't be going from zero to sixty in record time on the first time out. With that said, Penn track showed no real signs of stalling in its first competitive action since winter break, collecting 11 victories in Saturday’s Angry Birds Invitational at Lehigh. The men’s team finished second out of five squads, losing only to Monmouth while compiling 131 total points.

Once again, Penn finds itself .500 on the week. For the second time in as many weekends, both the men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams split their respective Ivy dual meets, with both programs defeating Brown while falling to Harvard on Saturday. On the men’s side, the Quakers finished their regular season against the Ivy League with a 203-95 win over Brown and a 190-108 loss to Harvard. The men’s squad was anchored by its pair of standout juniors, as Eric Schultz and Chris Swanson both scored maximum points for Penn in their freestyle events.

After a less than stellar winter break, Penn wrestling needed some sort of success to right the ship before opening Ivy play.

This weekend, hackers converged on Penn for the biannual PennApps hackathon. Here were the top ten projects of over 200 submissions developed this weekend. 

Penn paying Payments in Lieu of Taxes (PILOTs) is still not on the agenda. 

Anneka DeCaro is a College freshman from Austin, TX. Her email address is annekaxiv@gmail.com.

On Aug. 9 last year, 18-year old Michael Brown was fatally shot in Ferguson, Missouri. Another unjustified police shooting, another abrupt end to a life and another black teenager dead.

At the request of Mr. Rohrback, we have compiled a list of facts that we deeply believe the PPA should rely on. It is our belief that “[p]olicing an open, urban, multicultural and densely-populated university environment such as Penn,” as the Penn Police department website states, requires a commitment to protect all its community members, especially when that West Philadelphia community is predominantly Black and Brown.

For Thomas Munson's photo recap of Penn men's basketball's game against Villanova: http://www.thedp.com/gallery/villanova-escapes-penn-mens-hoops

President Barack Obama's free community college proposal has the support of Penn President Amy Gutmann. Obama is expected to propose a plan to provide free community college for millions of students in his Tuesday 'State of the Union.' Gutmann appeared on CNBC's "On the Money," talking about the positives of increased opportunities for higher education. Even though Penn's price of tuition continues to rise, the University has a all-grant, no-loan financial aid policy.

Amy Gutmann is far from alone as a woman leading an Ivy League institution: starting in July, there will be three others. Elizabeth Garrett is set to take over the presidency at Cornell in July, the beginning of Cornell's fiscal year, joining Gutmann, Drew Gilpin Faust (Harvard) and Christina H.

As Penn suffers the cold winter, campus construction continues nevertheless.

LThe Forbes 30 under 30 Summit ibrings together influential people to share ideas on the cutting edge issues of human society.

Going into Saturday’s matchup, things weren’t exactly looking up for Penn basketball. Despite completing the squad's first three game winning steak in over two seasons earlier this year, the outlook for the Red and Blue looked decidedly bleak after blowing a 15-point lead to Princeton last Saturday. And, as most expected, the Quakers fell to No.