While graffiti is on the rise in Philadelphia, Penn professor and Mural Arts Program Executive Director Jane Golden is working with Penn students and the city to create public art that benefits the community.

On Wednesday evening, around 150 Penn students heard Dennis Hastert, the 59th Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, speak at Houston Hall.

To counter the pervasive presence of real estate eyesores in the neighborhood, UCD developed Project Rehab to transform neglected properties into valuable community assets.

The four most expensive campus fire incidents in the last five years have  cost the University more than $610,000  in total.

Penn President Amy Gutmann was confronted about her response to the mental health crisis

Free 3-D printing comes to the Towne Building.

The creator of fitness programs such as “Hip Hop Abs,” “Focus T25,” and “Insanity,” spoke about the relationship between physical and emotional health in a Q&A session in the latest installment of the Year of Health events for the 2014-2015 school year.

College alums discussed their careers in media at Buzzfeed and Digitaria

While the Appropriations Committee continues to fund these programs, reauthorization plays an important role in how federal funds are allocated.

The bill passed the Philadelphia City Council 14 – 2 on Sept. 18.

Penn may soon be adding another esteemed professor to its list of Nobel Laureates.Physics professor Charles Kane was chosen as a Thomson Reuters Citation Laureate for his work on the quantum Hall effect and topological insulators.

Read about what crimes occurred in the Penn Patrol Zone between Sept. 19 and Sept. 25, 2014.

Implementing changes at Penn can take time.

College student Amanda Hu’s death was ruled a suicide, a spokesperson at the Philadelphia Police Homicide Unit said early Wednesday morning.

“The way we talk about young people in schools these days has a really punishing level of approach that is devoid of any level of caring, experiential knowledge and vision, frankly.” That’s the reason Helen Gym thinks it’s important for parents to be advocates for changes in the School District of Philadelphia.

LGBT activists warned Penn students at a panel Tuesday night to not be pacified by the progress the LGBT community is making — there is plenty more that needs to be done.

A Tuesday panel sponsored by the College Dean’s Advisory Board featured four seniors spilling their advice for incoming students.