Penn Graduate School of Design student Matt DiScenna has been awarded a scholarship by the National Italian American Foundation (NIAF), according to a press release from the foundation. DiScenna received the Raffaele DeRitis Scholarship.

For most of Monday evening at the Palestra, offense was tough to come by for Penn women’s basketball. But unlike the majority of their shots, the Quakers did not allow their shot at history to rim out.

Forbes and the City of Philadelphia announced on Monday that Forbes will be returning to Philadelphia in October for the second annual Forbes Under 30 Summit. 

Penn International Affairs Association President Akhilesh Goswami released a statement regarding former New York Times Middle East bureau chief Chris Hedges allegedly being uninvited from a conference run by the IAA that will take place in April. Hedges said that he was uninvited following an article he wrote for Truthdig.com titled "ISIS – the New Israel" that compared Israel's founding fathers to ISIS. In the statement released on Dec.

Former New York Times reporter Chris Hedges was banned from a Penn conference about the possibility of peace in the Middle East after he compared Israel to ISIS. Hedges had been invited to speak at the conference sponsored by Penn's International Affairs Association (IAA) that will take place on April 3.

Both of Hamlett’s parents received phone calls from a blocked number after the disappearance.

Take a step back into the world of 1990’s rap, if you will, and pause to consider Penn coach Jerome Allen surveying the state of his team with a withering look somewhat akin to the gaze of the Nurse Ratched figure in Eminem’s “The Real Slim Shady” video. “I don’t really know where we’re at,” he said when asked to describe his team’s progress following last night’s 82-67 loss to La Salle.

The federal government is cutting some funding to 721 hospitals around the nation, including the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania (HUP), due to high rates of infection and patient injuries. The new policies, which will be accessed via a cut in Medicare payments, will affect those 721 hospitals through the end of this fiscal year, which ends in September 2015. According to NBC 10's report, one out of every seven hospitals in the nation are being penalized via a one percent reduction in Medicare payments. According to federal reports, there had been a reduction in avoidable errors from 2010 to 2013, but there was still a high frequency of avoidable complications.

Harvard Law School and the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights reached a resolution agreement on Tuesday after the Law School was found in violation of Title IX.

Looking to get laid in college. As a Penn student, apparently you are in the right place. Youngrager.com listed Penn as the 33rd easiest college to get laid at in the United States, right behind Temple and one spot ahead of Oregon.  Penn has appeared near the top of many lists in 2014, as College Factual listed Penn as the top college in the nation and Playboy ranked Penn as the top party school in the nation.  But this one seems a bit unique.

The Big Five is always a tough challenge for Penn Basketball and Tuesday was no exception, as La Salle built an early lead and held on for a 84-67 win over the Quakers.

Last season, Sydney Stipanovich became the first player in Ivy League history to win the Ancient Eight's Rookie of the Year and Defensive Player of the Year awards in the same season. If the sophomore puts together a few more games like her performance on Monday night against UMBC, she may add Player of the Year to her already loaded trophy case in the near future. Nine days after Penn women's basketball's disappointing loss to Drexel, one in which Stipanovich notched only eight points and three rebounds in 23 minutes, the Red and Blue rebounded in style with a 69-63 win over the Retrievers due in large part to the second-year center's incredible outing. Despite battling a UMBC (5-5) frontcourt highlighted by three players over six-feet tall, Stipanovich recorded 29 points and 14 rebounds while senior forward Kara Bonenberger added 14 points and eight boards of her own as the Quakers (5-4) won for only the second time in December. After the game, Penn coach Mike McLaughlin was not only impressed with his frontcourt's production, but the ability of his team to respond to a short winter break. "This is a group that only got four or five days home for Christmas yet they all probably wanted to spend more time at home," McLaughlin said.

Timothy Hamlett, a junior at Penn and former athlete on the University's track and field team, has been reported missing.

Penn students over the age of 21 can now rejoice: Beer can be delivered alongside food in Pa. based on a recent Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board clarification. The ruling from the LCB says that restaurants and other places that serve both food and beer can deliver up to two six-packs of beer.

I want to commend President Gutmann for her participation in the "die‐in" protest over the recent, high‐profile deaths at the hands of specific police officers.

The Wistar Institute announced last week that Russel E. Kaufman, its President/CEO, will step down, effective March 2, 2015.  Dario C.

We wrote back in September about how Penn School of Design graduate James Dupree was fighting to save his art studio from an eminent domain claim. Now, Dupree has won his battle, as the Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority has dropped its condemnation of his property, citing rising legal fees. The PRA had gotten approval to build a supermarket on the space, but Dupree challenged the claim in court.