A typical first semester course load will be between 5 and 5.5 credit units, a system in which each class counts as a credit and a lab course usually counts as half a credit.

More than 25 percent of Penn is involved in Greek life. There are 48 Greek social fraternity and sorority chapters.

The Graduate and Professional Student Assembly will hold executive board elections on Wednesday, using a system quite different from that of their undergraduate counterpart — the Undergraduate Assembly.

The April 13 copy of the Daily Pennsylvanian reported the incident.

As health care has finally begun to expand over the past few months, fewer Americans are now without health insurance. Polsky is one of many Penn professionals who interact directly with health policy and the legislation that has come out of the Obama administration.

Nwokedi spoke with the DP about why she chose Penn and following the team this year

Though Wednesday’s game between the No. 9 Penn women’s lacrosse team and Princeton won’t necessarily decide the Ivy League regular season title, it will certainly have the most impact of any game played this season

Copabanana remains mostly unaffected by the events of last night. It was open for normal business hours on Tuesday. Copabanana owner Brian Phillips said that, while he was not on the premises last night when the shooting occurred, the restaurant has not felt unsafe in the neighborhood.

The program typically sees about 28 applicants; this year about 130 applied.

Penn is full of noteworthy initiatives. But we would like to highlight one in particular: Penn Dining and Bon Appetit’s efforts to work with students to implement a food recovery program.Starting this fall, our dining services providers, Penn Dining and Bon Appetit, will establish a program that transfers food unable to be consumed at dining halls to a local hunger relief agency.

As many of you know, Philadelphia has a lot of thrift stores, whether in our bubble of West Philly, in Center City or on South Street.

While a lot went right for the Quakers this past weekend as they scored 27 runs while winning three of four games, there were plenty of things that are cause for worry before the matchup with the Dragons

While, the Huffington Post said students and faculty would have liked more transparency and support, sources say this is not the whole story.

An early-morning shooting near 40th and Spruce streets left a male victim pronounced dead at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania at 1:43 a.m. He was 31 years old.

Despite the fact that Steve Bilsky announced his retirement in November, the Philadelphia Big 5 revealed Monday that he will become its Executive Director when his 20-year tenure at Penn ends on June 30

After treatment from doctors in Boston and a nurturing environment fostered by the Penn community, College freshman Gillian Reny, who was injured in the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing, can walk — with occasional pain — and is getting ready to cap off her first year at college.

On Monday night, the problems with Penn basketball came to a head, as The Daily Pennsylvanian confirmed that freshman Tony Bagtas , sophomore Julian Harrell  and junior Henry Brooks  were off of the team