The University offers a number of resources to students so they can work - and play - hard.

If you want more opportunities to affect change on campus, you can get involved with Penn's student government.

For freshmen, the week of New Student Orientation is a blur of activities, new faces and navigating Locust Walk. But in between the fraternity parties and finding our way from the Quadrangle to Hayden Hall, Penn students do find time to study.

Once you've settled into your dorm and navigated your way down Locust Walk, it's time to venture out into the rest of Philadelphia, which offers restaurants, shopping and museums galore.

Whether you come from four generations of Sigma Alpha Epsilon brothers or are exploring the Greek system for the very first time, you can be sure that this year's batch of hopeful pledges have plenty to look forward to.

Penn's administrators are responsible for the thousands of students and millions of dollars that pass through the University every year, and their decisions affect every member of the Penn community.

Penn has accumulated a number of traditions over its 268 years. Some are dignified, others are more whimsical, but you can hardly consider yourself a true Quaker until you've booed the Princeton Tigers on Franklin Field during a football game or eaten fried Oreos during Spring Fling.

According to Penn field hockey coach Val Cloud, it's "September or bust" this season.

Despite struggling with its blocking all season, the 2008 Penn volleyball team finished third in the Ivy League.

Penn football was buzzing on media day Monday, based largely on the offense's stockpile of playmakers.

Having won the Ivy League title in 2007, the Penn women's soccer team was nothing short of disappointed with last season's fifth-place finish.

After losing 12 players to graduation and returning only two starters, it's not surprising that the men's soccer team is having a bit of an identity crisis.

Penn's traveling down Tobacco Road again.

This fall, the football team playing at Franklin Field will look retro.

School of Medicine researchers has found specialized cells in the bloodstream that can form bone when located away from the actual skeleton.