Penn Law’s Pepper Hall has been ground up to make room for a new law school building on Sansom Street.

‘If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em,’ the old saying goes.

Monday, Quakers center Joe D’Orazio was named to TSN's Preseason All-America third team, earning recognition for his often unnoticed efforts.

This week, copyright law saw a major change that could benefit students in a number of ways when the Digital Millennium Copyright Act was renewed and expanded to protect the use of video clips for educational and other noncommercial purposes, such as documentary filmmaking.

HUP's critical violations of the city health code included raw chicken being found above ready-to-eat foods, refrigeration temperatures of 54 degrees rather than the required 41 to prevent bacteria growth and a dishwasher that did not heat utensils enough to properly sanitize them.

A decision will now allow all professors to bypass the copy protection on clips of DVDs for use in class — as well as media students for coursework.

Apple will open a new store in Center City July 30 at 5:00 p.m.

The Penn Literacy Network — a program in the University’s Graduate School of Education — hosted several elementary and middle-school teachers from Detroit for a week of teaching-based workshops.

It was a zoo out there in 2008, when I first showed up on campus, mattress pad and shower caddy in tow. For Penn’s Class of 2014, however, freshman fall might be a whole new animal. Or no animal at all.

Women may be better educated and more desirable in the workplace, but those traits don't translate to success in the professional world.

On Tuesday, the Philadelphia City Planning Commission had a number of development proposals to discuss at their routine meeting. One was the “Institutional Development District Master Plan Amendment” — a proposal that would allow the Wistar Institute to erect a new research facility.

Last week, rising College Sophomore Brittany Young's charity, A Spring of Hope, finished fourth place in a Facebook competition led by Chase Community Giving. A Spring of Hope was granted $100,000, which the charity will use to advance its aspiration of widespread water availability.

Recent College graduate Jimmy Tobias has been in jail for the past week after taking part in a protest affiliated with campaigns Climate Ground Zero and Mountain Justice to stop mining on West Virginia’s Coal River Mountain.

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Findings from a recent Penn laboratory study have confirmed that additives in ancient alcoholic beverages carry anticancer properties.

On July 29 at 9:00 p.m., Quakers, Philadelphians and the rest of the world can watch Penn alumna and Philly native Kristin Haskin Simms at work on Lifetime TV’s Project Runway.

Students spending the summer in Philadelphia can take advantage of Philly’s food culture for cheap during University City Dining Days.