While gridlock in Washington, D.C. continues to cripple countless legislative efforts from across the political spectrum, Penn’s legislative agenda has been left to suffer.

The Quakers will also have to move forward in 2014 without one of their best players, sophomore Arielle Winfield, which makes the journey that much tougher.

For the second straight year, Penn volleyball finished over .500 in the Ancient Eight during the 2013 season, turning in a solid performance but unable to top Ivy-powerhouse Yale.

Over her three years with the Red and Blue, the veteran has established herself as a grounding presence for the team, both in the backfield and in day-to-day life.

A crop of new professors will join the School of Arts and Sciences for the academic year. The school has appointed 22 new members to its faculty across several departments.New professors in the Earth and Environmental Science Department include associate David Goldsby, assistant Lauren Sallan and Reto Gieré, who joins Penn from Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg in Germany.

As a high school student with a passion for politics, Ben Fogel he could land his dream internship with the United Nations Watch.

Scientists have observed that drinking a cup of coffee right before taking a 20 minute nap is more effective in raising alertness than drinking coffee or taking a nap independent of the other."Interestingly, there's even some evidence that caffeine naps can help people go for relatively long periods without proper sleep," Vox's Joseph Stromberg wrote.In April, Arianna Huffington spoke at Penn, warning students not to deprive themselves of sleep. While taking twenty minute naps throughout the day isn't the solution, an added cup of coffee could certainly help productivity for the hours when you are asleep.Read more about coffee naps at Vox...

Most long-standing sports institutions are resistant to change. Whether it is Major League Baseball refusing to address time of game issues or the NCAA resisting even the most painfully logical changes to its outdated system, change is continually feared by the sports establishment.

At the end of the day, the box score has no statistic to demonstrate the brilliance of an individual defender’s play, and what isn’t evident in a box score is rarely appreciated by fans. 

In general, [college students] are much more likely to be rich people temporarily occupying the slightly-less-comfortable space between being the total financial responsibility of our parents and being recipients of our own personal salaries.

Let us introduce ourselves: we are the Penn Democrats, the most active political group on campus.

As fun as it is to call people out for being jerks online, it’s time to put an end to this — not just ridiculing the Facebook group, but relying on it at all. Just like everyone knows that one girl who looks nothing like her profile picture, it’s difficult to gauge someone’s true personality online. We told each other stories, we made each other laugh and cry, but the Facebook message you sent that guy three months ago is not a proper introduction.

Penn women’s soccer came up just short of matching its male counterpart’s Ivy League championship in 2013. However, the Quakers provided plenty of great moments en route to a 12-1-4 overall record.

If you’re a new student on campus, welcome to Penn! If you’re a returning upperclassman, welcome back!

Budweiser's Made in America music festival kicked off its third year in Philadelphia on Saturday, drawing plenty of Penn students and plenty of Pennsylvanians.

Pennsylvania took steps to expand health coverage for low-income residents on Thursday.

Penn students aren't the only ones who can't figure out when spots open up in the courses they want, according to an analysis by the New York Times.