With a mission to “make politics more simple,” two Penn graduate students are creating a startup that helps voters discover candidates who hold political views in line with their own.

The two main goals of the plan are to build a more diverse faculty and to create a more inclusive campus community.

The Rajendra and Neera Singh Program in Market and Social Systems Engineering — set to launch this fall with 20 incoming freshmen — will consist of computer science, electrical and systems Engineering and Wharton classes.

We commend the University’s Diversity Action Plan and hope that individual schools extend its tenets. The University should have a strong presence in the planning process for each school.

Philadelphia is giving its homeless policy a major overhaul — including closing shelters and how they handle homeless people — and it is not clear that they are for the better.

All restroom users expect peace and quiet while they are using the facilities, so why not have urinal separators in all male restrooms?

Recently graduated Penn pitcher shares about life in the minor leagues after being drafted by Phillies.

Rising sophomore caps year with 2011 Pan-American Junior Championship title.

Penn’s soccer pitch acts as practice field for many teams from around the world.

A bicycle shop will move into the property that has been empty since Strikes Bowling Lounge vacated it last year.

Penn has once again topped Newsweek’s ranking of the best gay-friendly colleges in the United States.

A group of investors, led by 1986 Wharton graduate Joshua Harris, will pay approximately $280 million to purchase the Philadelphia 76ers basketball franchise.

The NEA awarded a $250,000 Our Town grant last week to a group that includes Penn’s School of Social Policy & Practice to develop a Creative Assets Mapping Database for Philadelphia.

Penn researchers have successfully created heart cells, which are much-needed in regenerative medicine, from skin and brain cells.

The Public Policy Polling firm has found that President Barack Obama's statewide approval rating is at 46 percent.

We commend the Ivy League for setting restrictions on potentially harmful football practices, creating a safer playing field for athletes.