Officially formed this year by College senior Jake Cohen, the five-man Penn Pipes bagpipe band consists of a handful of Penn graduate and undergraduate students united by the unique sound of their instruments.

The free event will offer students an opportunity to celebrate the coming of spring and splatter colorful powder on each other.

The sounds of “art striking a chord” reverberated through the Rotunda last night.

This Sunday, running 3.1 miles can provide six days of escape for children affected by cancer.

Last night, hundreds of students gathered to fight against domestic and sexual violence by marching across campus, shouting, “Penn unite, take back the night!”

Nearly a year after Penn first announced its partnership with Coursera, the question of monetization has become increasingly relevant as institutions continue to debate the future of online education.

Alumni from the mid-1970s fondly remember enjoying music and warm weather with their friends during the early years of Fling. All events — music performances and plays by student groups, and a two-day arts-and-crafts fair, all held in the Quad — were completely free.

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Graduate School of Education Dean Andy Porter will retire at the end of his current contract in June 2014, the University announced Thursday.

The event, hosted by Wharton junior Daniel Ortiz and sponsored by Wharton Retail Club, offered an insightful look at the business operations of fashion e-commerce companies like Moda Operandi.

The Starbucks under 1920 Commons was transformed Thursday evening from a study area to a bustling scene of students and staff from the Office of Admissions writing postcards to 1,200 lucky admitted students.

A full-time poet and part-time lecturer at the Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing, Kenneth Goldsmith is also a self-professed “institutional critic.” So when he was named the first “poet laureate” of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City in January, Goldsmith was naturally “suspicious.”

Organized by Wharton sophomore Andrew Hudis and David Feinman, a childhood friend who currently attends Bucks County Community College, this unorthodox 5K race will test the runners’ abilities to survive a zombie apocalypse.

Heart-related operations might have been performed unnecessarily at University facilities.

As Mental Wellness Week comes to an end today, the Asian Pacific Student Coalition will collaborate with Counseling and Psychological Services to promote mental health awareness in the Asian community.

With Fling just a week and a half away, students from other schools are booking their bus and train tickets to come to Penn.

Both men and women will march through campus tonight in solidarity against sexual violence — a scene that would have been hardly imaginable just 20 years ago.