We addicts of information would be better off trading some status updates and messages in our inboxes for a little more time together ­— the old-fashioned, offline way.

Audience response systems and associated software are increasingly prevalent in the classroom, allowing teachers to pose questions that students answer on individual remote controls.

While the fight that broke out between male students from West Philadelphia high schools near 46th and Market streets Friday was not a direct threat to the Penn community, it affects the University’s active role in West Philadelphia.

An investigation conducted by ProPublica revealed that 20 Penn School of Medicine doctors have delivered lectures to colleagues on behalf of pharmaceutical companies since 2009, violating a Penn policy prohibiting doctors from engaging in marketing activities and other inappropriate activities.

Penn senior midfielders Jason Gorskie and Loukas Tasigianis have been in talks with Major League Soccer teams to play next season, though neither has officially signed.

Letters of recommendation written for women tend to highlight personal characteristics, whereas letters written for men focus more on leadership qualities, according to a recent study.

Assistant hoops coach Dan Leibovitz returns to Temple Wednesday — where he spent 10 years as a top assistant — as an opponent for the first time.

Michael Lemole, a 1995 School of Medicine alumnus, is one of three primary doctors for the congresswoman who was shot in the head outside a Tucson, Ariz., supermarket on Jan. 8.

When 2010 alum George Karandinos moved above a Kensington diner a few blocks from the city’s most dangerous drug trade, he was almost certain he’d be robbed.

The Student Activities Council voted Thursday to temporarily prevent new student groups from receiving recognition and funding because of SAC’s financial situation.

In his first competition for the Red and Blue, highly-touted freshman high jumper Maalik Reynolds has already put his stamp on the Penn program.

Sophomore Dana Bonincontri led the Quakers with a second-place performance on the uneven bars and third place in the all-around competition at the one-day invitational hosted by George Washington University in Washington, D.C.

If you’re a fan of the Eagles (the band, not the disappointment of a football team), you know exactly the motto that traveling partners Penn and Princeton are living by this January: take it easy.

Midway through the winter sports season, Director of Penn Athletics Steve Bilsky sat down with the Sports Editors of The Daily Pennsylvanian to talk about a successful fall for the Quakers and what’s on tap for 2011.

A new evaluation system will enable professors to send out feedback forms to their classes by e-mail at any time — not just at the end of the semester.

A graduate student wrote a letter to the editor commenting on the need for government-funded social programs in addition to the recent increase in social entrepreneurship.

The event — which was divided into multiple moderated discussion groups — grew out of a partnership between the Penn Project for Civic Engagement and NewCORE, or New Conversation on Race and Ethnicity, an organization committed to furthering the cause of racial dialogue and cooperation.