Penn basketball announced its 2014-15 schedule, highlighted by the Quakers' Big 5 rivals as well as a trip to Vanderbilt

According to an article written in The Atlantic, your college roommate can have a lasting affect on the habits you inherit during your time at school."In a 2012 study, University of Michigan health management professor Daniel Eisenberg found that as a randomly-assigned roommate became more anxious, the person living with them became more on-edge, too," the article states.Additionally, it has been found that roommates have a strong influence on each other's drinking and dieting habits.Read more about how your roommate is rubbing off on you at The Atlantic...

These new apps might help you handle the demands of your schedule.

Hannah Rosenfeld is a College sophomore from Tokyo, Japan.

Penn dance groups showcased their talents on Friday at the Wheel of Arts Showcase in the ARCH Auditorium

While gridlock in Washington, D.C. continues to cripple countless legislative efforts from across the political spectrum, Penn’s legislative agenda has been left to suffer.

The Quakers will also have to move forward in 2014 without one of their best players, sophomore Arielle Winfield, which makes the journey that much tougher.

For the second straight year, Penn volleyball finished over .500 in the Ancient Eight during the 2013 season, turning in a solid performance but unable to top Ivy-powerhouse Yale.

Over her three years with the Red and Blue, the veteran has established herself as a grounding presence for the team, both in the backfield and in day-to-day life.

A crop of new professors will join the School of Arts and Sciences for the academic year. The school has appointed 22 new members to its faculty across several departments.New professors in the Earth and Environmental Science Department include associate David Goldsby, assistant Lauren Sallan and Reto Gieré, who joins Penn from Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg in Germany.

As a high school student with a passion for politics, Ben Fogel he could land his dream internship with the United Nations Watch.

Scientists have observed that drinking a cup of coffee right before taking a 20 minute nap is more effective in raising alertness than drinking coffee or taking a nap independent of the other."Interestingly, there's even some evidence that caffeine naps can help people go for relatively long periods without proper sleep," Vox's Joseph Stromberg wrote.In April, Arianna Huffington spoke at Penn, warning students not to deprive themselves of sleep. While taking twenty minute naps throughout the day isn't the solution, an added cup of coffee could certainly help productivity for the hours when you are asleep.Read more about coffee naps at Vox...

Most long-standing sports institutions are resistant to change. Whether it is Major League Baseball refusing to address time of game issues or the NCAA resisting even the most painfully logical changes to its outdated system, change is continually feared by the sports establishment.

At the end of the day, the box score has no statistic to demonstrate the brilliance of an individual defender’s play, and what isn’t evident in a box score is rarely appreciated by fans. 

In general, [college students] are much more likely to be rich people temporarily occupying the slightly-less-comfortable space between being the total financial responsibility of our parents and being recipients of our own personal salaries.

Let us introduce ourselves: we are the Penn Democrats, the most active political group on campus.

As fun as it is to call people out for being jerks online, it’s time to put an end to this — not just ridiculing the Facebook group, but relying on it at all. Just like everyone knows that one girl who looks nothing like her profile picture, it’s difficult to gauge someone’s true personality online. We told each other stories, we made each other laugh and cry, but the Facebook message you sent that guy three months ago is not a proper introduction.