Former Penn and current Temple men’s basketball coach Fran Dunphy recently tried a unique way to build his team’s chemistry — he had his players go out on the Schuylkill River to train with the Temple crew team.

Essentially an extended season beyond the normal high-school season, club volleyball has become a necessity for high-school players pursuing a collegiate career.

In its last non-conference match tomorrow against Lehigh, the Penn women’s soccer team has one final chance for a tune up before its final two Ivy League games against Brown and Princeton.

Early Tuesday evening, a small group gathered in the Penn Bookstore to listen to Stephen Tow, author of The Strangest Tribe: How a Group of Seattle Rock Bands Invented Grunge.

Breakdown of crime on and around campus last week, with an interactive map.

Jeffrey Hart Ware, 1986 College graduate and 1994 Ph.D. recipient and Penn staff member, died Sunday morning from cancer.

The University is currently in the process of working to obtain a naming gift for a future residential hall on Hill Field.

School of Design professor and renowned architect James Timberlake, who graduated from PennDesign in 1977, was nominated by President Barack Obama this month for a seat on the National Institute of Building Sciences Board of Directors. Timberlake, if appointed, will join the 21-member board that tackles potential issues facing the construction of safe, affordable housing and facilities in the United States.

A group of scientists at Penn’s Modular Robotics Laboratory, or MODLAB, has built the FoamBot, a set of smaller robots that are connected with layers of self-hardening foam. INTERACTIVE: How the FoamBot works

The Occupy movement has been criticized for lacking a cohesive voice, but one artist has a message and plenty of stories to tell — including her own.

On Nov. 8, in Philadelphia’s local elections, there is one race at the bottom of the ballot that is especially competitive and where there is an opportunity for political unity — the race for city commissioner.

A columnist searches for answers within a society where V-necks reign supreme.

On Sunday night, Undergraduate Assembly members voted to sign a letter cautioning the government against cutting Pell Grant funds — a resource that benefits around 16 percent of Penn students.

The Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics 4th Annual Grand Gaming Festival Monday evening gave students to play a variety of games created by their peers. GALLERY: Photos of Grand Gaming Festival

The Food Justice Dinner that kicked off Food Week brought together about 40 Penn students, community members, Bon Appetit management and both adult- and high-school-aged Urban Nutrition Initiative representatives, to expand food justice awareness.

Leo Levinson is now celebrating 40 years as an ad man, during which he has worked with companies such as Rita’s Water Ice and developed catchy jingles meant to stick in people’s heads like, “Be cool, eat a Rita’s.”

Last week, Penn Athletes and Allies Tackling Homophobia and Heterosexism introduced the Gay Lesbian and Straight Education Network Sports Project Challenge Team Respect Pledge to the Student Athlete Advisory Committee.