The amount of almost-waving, half- smiling and awkward eye-contacting I see around campus every day is absurd.

Former Pennsylvania senator and Law School adjunct professor Arlen Specter, 82, is battling cancer, but is still planning to teach this semester.

Cyclists on Walnut Street must now shift their gears to ride on the left side of the road.

Since the University announced its partnership with Coursera last spring, it has launched five courses on the online learning system. It is planning to launch two additional courses — “Modern and Contemporary American Poetry” along with “Networked Life” — on Sept. 10.

This October, a group of about 15 students will travel to San Francisco to visit technology companies, venture capitalists and entrepreneurs as part Tech Trek, a trip organized by four members of Students for Technology and Entrepreneurship at Penn and the Dining Philosophers.

For this admissions cycle, the Office of Admissions has added a second required essay to its Common Application supplement.

Both academics and pundits have speculated for decades that there is race-based discrimination in the criminal justice system. Now, Law School professor David Abrams has finally confirmed this popular notion.

The Bridge Café, which replaced Au Bon Pain over the summer and is located on the ground floor of Huntsman Hall, opened officially to the Penn community Wednesday.

The Penn Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology announced a landmark agreement on Tuesday with the Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism through which it will indefinitely loan a collection of 24 gold jewelry pieces to Turkey.

In this feature, The Daily Pennsylvanian takes a look at some of the specific ways in which Penn’s four undergraduate schools are aiming to recruit and retain a diverse faculty.

If there ever was a part of American democracy that a newly enfranchised democrat should see, this is it.

An Olympic medal is wonderful, but the real gold at Penn can be found in all this great University has to offer.

With just two matches under their belts, the Quakers are already 2-0 and off to their best start since 1997 after defeating Lehigh and Towson in a pair of weekend games at Franklin Field.

After initially struggling to find an offensive rhythm in matches against James Madison and Temple, the Penn women’s soccer team ultimately delivered at Rhodes Field and defeated both opponents, 2-1 and 2-0, respectively, to open the season.

With wins over La Salle and Villanova over the weekend, the Red and Blue improved their overall tournament record to 9-3.

Following their loss to Lafayette Friday at Rhodes Field, the Quakers fell again Sunday in double overtime to New Hampshire, 2-1. The two losses marked the first time since 2003 that Penn dropped its first two home matches.

For the purpose of this column, I don’t have the good fortune of taking one risk — in this case, making a sports prediction for the upcoming year — and immediately walking away with my earnings, never to return. Oh no, I’m in it for the long haul. The following are my predictions; come April I’ll be happy just to get my 20 bucks back.