Scott Mackler, a 54-year-old professor in the Perelman School of Medicine, was diagnosed with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis — more commonly known as Lou Gehrig’s disease — in 1999.

Forget about finding your intellectual equal or marrying him before you graduate. Here’s what you really need to know that Susan Patton isn’t telling you: empirically speaking, if you graduate without a ring on your finger, you are in great company.

Armed with hot bats and a well-rounded pitching rotation, the Quakers (17-13, 0-2 Big 5) will take on Villanova (14-20, 2-2) Thursday night at Penn Park.

Alpha Delta Pi will not participate in formal recruitment in spring 2014, but will be able to recruit in both the fall and spring of the 2014-2015 academic year.

To see if football has a future, I know I have to go inside the game. From the people who have been there. Who know that there’s something more to the game than just violence…

Both token and cash fare increases are set to take effect on July 1, should SEPTA’s newest budget be approved by the agency’s board. The cost of both token and cash fare will jump by 25 cents, to $1.80 and $2.25, respectively. Once the system phases in its new payment technology, which will use fare cards and other microchip-equipped devices, cash fare will increase to $2.50.

On Tuesday and Wednesday, Penn’s Division of Facilities and Real Estate Services conducted four focus groups with representatives from Streetsense, a consulting firm working with the University, and Michael Salove Company, the University’s retail broker, to discuss how to improve University City’s retail offerings

School of Nursing Dean Afaf Meleis, who has held her deanship at Penn for more than a decade, plans to step down from her current position at the end of her term in June 2014, the University announced Wednesday.

Jason Smith, a 37-year-old exterminator from Levittown, Pa., was arrested and formally charged two days after Ketunuti’s murder on Jan. 21 and has been in jail ever since. He is charged with five counts related to her death, including murder, arson and abuse of corpse.

Unlike in years past, wide-eyed and newly admitted students this year will not be experiencing Penn on the Friday of Fling. Dean of Admissions Eric Furda said that the Office of Admissions made this decision after hearing “mixed” feedback from students and their families who have visited Penn during Spring Fling in the past.

The story of Wee’s tennis career goes back to his homeland of Singapore and takes quite a few turns.

After a weekend of frustrated bats against Yale and Brown, Penn baseball (19-11) finally showed some spark halfway through Wednesday’s game at La Salle (12-18).

April 5 was the best birthday ever for College junior Christi Economy — and not because she officially turned 21.

As the campus prepares for Spring Fling weekend, students gathered to explore the place of faith in a social setting characterized by drugs, alcohol and sex.

Pulitzer’s tale is a refreshing success story that finds promise in our daily mistakes — one of hers landed her a company with net sales over $100 million just this past year.

To huff and puff every time a woman is noted for both her beauty as well as her brains only reinforces the double standard females face in reaching positions of power. So what if someone says she’s pretty? Get over it.

The Spring Fling concert lineup is often the centerpiece of campus conversation, but back in 2004, students had another April concert to look forward to — Kanye West performing over Penn Relays weekend.