Does being thin always correlate with good health, and vise versa? When it comes to issues of weight, things may not be as black and white as they seem.

SEAS professor Shu Yang and a team of other Penn professors work to design technology for a smart building that responds to its environment in order to optimize comfort, energy and aesthetics.

A grant from the National Institute of Health will help with the development of the Translational Research Center, which integrates hands-on research with patient care.

The School of Medicine is diversifying its faculty with initiatives to place more women into top academic positions, such as new Ophthalmology chairwoman Joan O’Brien.

Penn sophomore Jessica Melendez's hometown in Puerto Rico and the post-industrial landscape of Philadelphia are linked by her love of softball.

A new Penn-led study may allow individuals to find the smoking cessation treatment that best suits their genetic needs.

Campus Apartments is now using XIPWIRE, a mobile payment provider which allows users to send and receive money via text message.

In memory of Owen Thomas, Franklin Field will observe a moment of silence before Saturday’s home opener. But for Thomas’ teammates and coaches, the memorial will last much longer.

Alumnae Rosemary Mazanet and Andrea Mitchell enhance University fundraising efforts as the newest additions to the Making History Campaign.

Penn often touts its array of opportunities for undergraduate research — such as CURF, PURM, and University Scholars — as an asset that distinguishes it from peer institutions.

I cannot donate to Penn when the most publicized reasons to do so consist of empty rhetoric and getting free beer come Hey Day.

Whether over-texting is pathological or not, if over-texting is your major vice, consider yourself in good shape. I’d rather be addicted to texting than a whole lot of other things.

Faculty sometimes don’t post their syllabi on Penn InTouch because their course material is subject to change. This, however, is a poor excuse.

Though the NCAA has some guidelines and requirements for dealing with concussions, most of the responsibility is left to individual schools.

154 transfer students of various years begin their first semester on Penn's campus.

Zeta Beta Tau partnered up with Sigma Delta Tau and the American Red Cross to host its second annual blood drive at the ZBT chapter house.

The Undergraduate Assembly unanimously voted to consider alternatives to free on-campus distribution of The New York Times, which did not return this fall.