Sir Evelyn and Lynn Forester de Rothschild gave Penn’s World Scholars Program a $1 million gift with the intention of supporting a Penn World Scholar from a British Commonwealth country.

Nearly a month after his stellar performance at the Ivy Champs, Scotty Williams found himself on an even bigger stage.

Since the end of classes, Penn’s varsity athletes have packed into the new intercollegiate weight room to get started on offseason training.

The Penn Bookstore recently announced that students will be able to rent textbooks instead of buying them. We think that anything that saves students money on often-exorbitant textbook prices is positive.

U.S. Representative Joe Sestak defeated incumbent Senator Arlen Specter in the Pennsylvania Democratic Senate primary Tuesday.

Speaking at Penn’s 254th commencement ceremony on May 17, Ambassador to China and Penn alumnus Jon Huntsman, Jr. combined humor with reflection and advice.

For the third time in the last four seasons, the Quakers defeated Boston University in the first round of the NCAA Tournament, 14-9, at Immaculata University in Malvern, PA.

Former Penn President and professor Sheldon Hackney will retire this spring after an illustrious career that also included terms as a professor and then provost at Princeton and president of Tulane.

A graphic of the important information for voting in the Pennsylvania primary on May 18.

Congratulations to everyone leaving the Penn nest. You’ve done brilliant things here, and we’re sure you’ll keep shining.

Somehow, in the most competitive place I’ve ever been, I quit planning and started enjoying myself.

Penn — or more precisely — the people I’ve met at Penn, have played a huge role in that process of discovery.

Despite pervasive stigmas casting nursing as a female field, Penn’s small number of male nurses has begun to grow.

You don’t have to be a reporter to make the realizations I have during my time at Penn. Pursue your passions, whatever they are.

Following a vote last month to add a sorority to campus, the Panhellenic Council extension committee voted May 3 to add the new sorority in 2011 rather than 2012. The sorority will be Penn’s eighth after Phi Sigma Sigma closes at the end of this academic year.

If there’s any lesson that I could hope to impart, it’s this: Don’t shy away from the things that you love, no matter how difficult or different they seem.

Thirty years ago, before the term post-traumatic stress disorder was used in mental health discourse, Edna Foa wondered how individuals processed disturbing and distressing events. The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs now treats PTSD patients, thanks to Foa’s treatment program.