Eight years ago, Russell Craig was sitting behind bars with nothing but a number two pencil in his hand and an idea in his head. Fast forward to today, and a towering portrait of his face hangs in an art gallery at the Truth to Power art exhibition in Philadelphia.

Forbes' ninth annual list of the best colleges in the United States included a total of 660 public and private universities, liberal arts colleges and service academies. The top three spots went to Stanford, Williams and Princeton, respectively. 

“Each book that a person has read lowers their evaluation of Donald Trump by roughly 2-3 points [on a 100-point scale],” Mutz wrote in her analysis.

On July 25th, the College Promise Campaign and Innovative Educators hosted a discussion focusing on free community college. The event started with a screening of No Greater Odds, a film about students’ experiences at the College of Southern Nevada.

Top national security officials expressed their opinions of how disastrous it would be for national security to have Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump as president.

Communication Professor David Eisenhower is teaching a class in the fall called Conventions, Campaigns and Debates, and the pre-requisite for the class is that students must attend either the Republican National Convention or the DNC. 

This was the first time that the Trump campaign, known for noncommittal policy positions, publicly addressed the issue in detail.

Will Hampton and Bill Lynch, 2010 College graduates, launched HotMaps, a social networking app that streamlines the search for nightlife locations using a numerical rating system on June 29.

For many political journalists, Philadelphia is nothing more than a stop on the campaign trail.

The preseason hype surrounding Penn football is unreal – 13 returning starters from a championship team will do that.

Two Penn students will be voting and caucusing for Bernie Sanders at the Democratic National Convention even as Hillary Clinton remains the presumptive nominee.

Eric Schoenberg, who will teach a class at Wharton in the fall on family wealth, upped his political contributions by over 718% in order to stop Trump.

Trump has formally become the Republican presidential nominee despite having no prior political experience.

Dining Days are returning to University this summer from July 14th through July 24th, bringing an ever-growing selection of good food deals to the West Philadelphia area.

Wharton doctoral student Alixandra Barasch and her two collaborators, Kristin Diehl and Gal Zauberman, studied the effects of photography on people’s experiences. Through nine different activities, they found that generally taking photos could induce beneficial effects by increasing people’s feelings of engagement and immersion.

The Daily Show with Trevor Noah will be filming at Penn's Annenberg Center from Tuesday July 26 to Friday July 29.

The University announced revisions to its sexual harassment and sexual violence policies, effective July 1.