Biking safely involves more than just remembering to wear your helmet. While sharing the roads with motorists and pedestrians, many cyclists are unaware of the traffic laws by which they should be abiding.

Last week's crimes included a fire incident, fraud and a DUI.

While some traveled to Brazil to paint their faces and cheer for their home country’s soccer teams, one Penn student traveled to a part of the country far from the pitch.

Peter Conn's article in The Chronicle of Higher Education challenges the separation of church and state in regards to accreditation of Christian colleges.

Throughout their 11-year relationship, 31-year-old Bill Carroll and 36-year-old Missi Wright opted out of an official marriage because it may have impeded Wright’s healthcare benefits. On July 2, the day before Wright's death, Carroll and Wright exchanged vows in a ceremony in Wright’s streamer-draped hospital room, surrounded by a group of 20 friends and family members.

Penn faculty contributed to a British study that found that drinking less wine is more beneficial to cardiovascular health.

The Center will work with NBC News and the Wall Street Journal on its survey project, which is intended to increase public and lawmaker awareness of the opinions of American citizens during the 2014 election season.

The conference was co-hosted by Penn’s Think Tank and Civil Societies Programs and the Shanghai Academy for Social Sciences in Shanghai from June 25 to 26.

In Harper Polling's "Our Commonwealth Poll", 24 percent of participants chose Penn State over Bucknell University, Carnegie Mellon University, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Temple University, University of Pennsylvania, University of Pittsburgh and Villanova University. 

A team of Penn students and their colleagues — all under the age of 24 — is nearly finished producing "Driving Not Knowing," a debut feature film and “a love letter to the place and people we grew up with,” according to the group’s Kickstarter fundraising page.

Last week's crimes included two robberies, a burglary and a DUI.

Teams at Penn and the University of California, Los Angeles will receive a total of $37.5 million to create memory-restoring neuroprosthetic devices.

Allocating $197 million toward undergraduate financial aid, the recently enacted budget — which took effect July 1 and will terminate with the fiscal year on June 30, 2015 — saw a 4.5 percent increase in undergraduate financial aid.

Foundations of Art Design and Digital Culture, a class taught by Design professor David Comberg, recently finished up a summer session project in which each creation had to intervene in a public place.

A building fire broke out at Chestnut Hall Apartments on 39th and Sansom Streets around 8:30

The study, published in the June 25 issue of Journal of the American Medical Association, was conducted on about half a million women — the largest study yet to measure on the effectiveness of tomosynthesis.

This week's crimes include four thefts, two frauds, and one count of harassment.