About a month ago, Bon Appetit Management Company planted a hydroponic garden — which grows plants by infusing nutrients in water, rather than using soil — in 1920 Commons.

The Admissions office has changed the essays on the Penn supplement to the Common Application, eliminating one of the previously required questions and revising another.

For the past two years, Columbia failed to tally a single road victory. To snap that streak, however, they only had to travel to nearby Fordham — a mere 20-minute ride.

After a year-long injury in 2008, Dartmouth men’s soccer player Daniel Keat proved he is ready to be back on the pitch.

The PLAAY (Preventing Long-Term Anger and Aggression in Youth) program has helped students at a West Philadelphia discipline school and other community agencies throughout the city practice settling disputes nonviolently in the context of basketball games.

College senior Collin Williams’ father used to cut his hair. And when Williams was 15, his father passed the scissors to the next generation — literally.

The Quakers are slated to play the Wildcats for at least two more years (the schools signed an eight-year contract before the 2004 season). And that should be the end of it

The Undergraduate Assembly housed environmentalists and prospective UA candidates alike in its second general body meeting of the semester Sunday night.

Despite the economic recession, Penn, as well as most Ivy League and peer institutions, have committed to retaining the quality of students’ experience in the face of budget cuts.

Penn President Amy Gutmann was one of four higher-education leaders to receive a 2009 Carnegie Corporation Academic Leadership Award yesterday.

With over a dozen public health and global health student organizations on campus, plus speakers and programs coordinated by different departments and schools, students who want to get involved with public health have an enormous number of options.

The Nanoscale Science and Engineering Centers of the National Science Foundation have awarded $11.5 million to Penn’s Nano/Bio Interface Center (NBIC), the University announced yesterday.

With computer prices dropping across the board, extra-portable netbooks have become an increasingly attractive option for students.

At most European universities, students receive their undergraduate degrees in three years — and Graduate School of Education professor Robert Zemsky thinks American should do the same.

Written on the inside label of the coats Operation Warm distributes to children across the nation is one word that encapsulates the organization's message: "Achieve."

Nearly three months after the legal deadline, Pennsylvania Gov. Edward Rendell and legislative leaders have reached an agreement to balance the budget.

In an effort to open doors to students from more diverse backgrounds, leading institutions are increasingly partnering with third-party programs that match low-income applicants with schools often deemed inaccessible to them.