The Penn community is working to make sense of Pope Benedict XVI’s Feb. 11 announcement of his resignation — the first of its kind in almost 600 years.

For the third year in a row Wharton executive MBA students will receive an iPad as one of their first packages from the school.

Past, present and future. These are all important issues that will be addressed in this year’s annual UMOJA Week, going on now.

When someone throws out food at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, it doesn’t go to a landfill, but instead to a pig farm in New Jersey.

Last night, Penn Sangam asked a roomful of students an unusual question: could they really make an arranged marriage work?

The Student Activities Council predicted that the moratorium on new student groups will continue at the Undergraduate Assembly’s annual budgeting meeting.

Two weeks ago, ACE recommended that Penn should give course credit for mathematics and engineering professor Robert Ghrist’s calculus course offered on Coursera. Our concern is that ACE is trying to leave the nest too soon, so to speak.

Today, instead of shifting education to match the new century, people point to the status quo as an argument to preserve it. But to suggest, for example, that there is a dearth of qualified minority candidates for administrative positions at Penn is evidence itself that the system is broken.

In a league that has quickly become characterized by existential crisis-inducing mediocrity, one team has stood out: Harvard. Click on the interactive teams’ logos to read about their performance and see their historical rankings.

Voters in the Pennsylvania primary elections won’t have to show photo identification to cast their ballots this May.

When asked whether she had an active social media presence, professor of religious studies Anthea Butler responded, “Duh.”

The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania have filed eight lawsuits against former Hospital employees since Jan.

Some have received a fake email from those pretending to be the Wharton School.

A group of concerned parents and community members plan to rally outside of the University Council meeting at Houston Hall this Wednesday in protest of the new system of lottery registration at the Penn Alexander School.

It’s been said that conflict and a huge time commitment make rowing at Penn difficult to commit to. And as an ex-rower who was a member of the freshman heavyweight team all last semester, I was being asked to commit again.

As you enter the sixth floor of Van Pelt Library, you are immediately confronted with the floor’s centerpiece, a pavilion room with eucalyptus-paneled walls abutting floor-to-ceiling glass panes.

We’re halfway through the Ancient Eight schedule, and if Penn expects to be regarded as a team to watch next season, it will have to do much more than win the games against worse competition.