Every great initiative begins with a good story. For the Mobile CPR Project, the story began three years ago in Radnor, PA.

Rising Wharton senior Marlaine Erhart found out about the shooting the night it happened, when she was out and about in the Gayborhood in Philadelphia. If she’d been home in Orlando instead, she could very well have been at Pulse.

"Some people said ‘this is the coolest thing ever’ and others were like ‘what are you doing, you’re ruining your life'."

Vegetables aren't the only thing celebrity chef Jose Andres roasts — Donald Trump and his stance on Mexican immigrants also received heat during the grand opening.

"Adding scholarship recipients from these countries will add both ethnic and, hopefully, socioeconomic diversity to the Rhodes community and to Oxford."

Over a year ago the University Council Honorary Degree Committee started the process of picking the commencement speaker for the University of Pennsylvania’s graduating Class of 2016.

Shark Tank held closed auditions exclusively for Penn students, faculty and alumni on Saturday in Jon M. Huntsman Hall.

José Arturo Bauermeister was appointed Penn's tenth Presidential Professor, President Amy Gutmann and Provost Vincent Price announced Tuesday.

Penn’s Abramson Cancer Center has teamed up this year with the Breakthrough Bike Challenge (BBC), an annual bike ride to support cancer research based in the Philadelphia area.

Akyra Murray was a star student and gifted basketball player recruited to play for Mercyhurst College in Erie, Pa.

Engineering graduate student Qi He went missing Sunday when he was glissading, or using an ice ax to control his slide, down Asgard Pass, a popular alpine hiking area near Seattle, WA.

The Critical Language Scholarship program is a government program that identifies languages of need and sponsors students to study these languages in foreign countries. A highly selective program, its scholars spend 8-10 weeks immersed in their host family’s language and culture.

The revision actually allows "more students to not be penalized" when they violate Penn's academic integrity code, according to Director of the Office of Student Conduct Julie Lyzinski Nettleton.

The federal corruption trial of U.S. House of Representative Chaka Fattah is continued the week of May 31 - June 3. 

Next month, Philadelphia will host the Democratic National Convention — and some Penn students are helping make that happen.

"Slice Capital is a platform that allows anybody to buy and sell shares in the coolest, newest startups," he said. "We're looking to democratize the funding space so that the power is not only in the hands of venture capitalists and angels."

Two Muslim holidays, Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha, will be added to the district’s official school calendar.