The University plans to purchase the DuPont Marshall Research Lab — a 23.1-acre property on Grays Ferry Avenue — for $13 million. This is the first instance in which Penn has bought land across the river for everyday purposes.

Penn and 17 other institutions are participating in a study to determine biomarkers for Parkinson's disease. The Parkinson’s Progression Markers Initiative, or PPMI, is a $40-million, five-year observational trial sponsored by the Michael J. Fox Foundation.

A slew of the nation’s wealthiest colleges like Harvard and Yale have recently borrowed large sums of money, but Amy Gutmann said Penn has not needed to engage in this strategy.

Recently appointed a Penn Institute of Urban Research scholar, Cailles Cates Barnett has worked in city management across the country. Prior to her appointment at Penn, she worked as Philadelphia’s managing director.

On a team expected to rely heavily upon its stable of running backs to keep a hard-nosed rush attack afloat, quarterback Billy Ragone’s legs — even more than his arm — are providing a breath of fresh air.

Penn Nursing students agree that their employment opportunities may be more promising than those of many of their peers, but they have not been immune to the recession’s effects and graduates.

On Friday afternoon, a panel titled “A Post-Racial Society in the Age of Obama: Fact or Fiction?” kicked off the first annual Penn Spectrum conference — an alumni gathering focused on recognizing the University’s diversity.

“You are loved” — this is the message that students will be chalking all over campus today as part of a national campaign to prevent suicide among lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender students.

With a Pennsylvania voter registration deadline of midnight tonight student political groups spent the weekend adding as many students as possible to the state’s voter rolls.

This Saturday with just 1:04 before the end of regulation, the men’s soccer team managed to put the game-winning goal past Cornell for its first Ivy win.

Penn got its first dogfight from a new and improved Dartmouth team that nearly pulled off a major upset. It was a game that should set off alarms in the minds of each of those 100-plus Quakers.

SPEC President said Cosby was selected on the criteria that he would have “wide appeal to the community” and is someone students “would not have an opportunity to see speak otherwise.”

Volunteers from the Penn Democrats went door to door in Swarthmore, Pa., on Saturday on behalf of Bryan Lentz, the Democratic candidate in Pennsylvania’s seventh congressional district — a key area of Pennsylvania for statewide candidates.

TEDxPenn, organized independently of the popular “Technology, Entertainment, Design” conference series, featured a wide-range of speakers from the University and alumni communities.

The State Dept. issued an alert for American travelers in Europe to be aware of heightened potential for a terrorist attack, but students abroad said it won't have much impact on their plans.

Tensions ran high in Huntsman Hall Sunday night as the Nominations and Elections Committee, after several hours of deliberation, announced the verdicts of three violation rulings and final results of the new student election.

Cosmetics and beauty store bluemercury2 took over former retailer Douglas Cosmetics this Saturday at 3603 Walnut St. It will sell the same products as Douglas and may expand.