Winner of the urbanSHED Competition, first-year Design student Young-Hwan Choi’s project, “Urban Umbrella,” presents a sleek, environmentally friendly alternative to urban sheds, structures that are legally mandated in New York City to keep pedestrians safe from falling debris in construction sites.

A medical team from the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania arrived in Haiti on Monday to assist the nonprofit organization Partners in Health with surgical procedures.

Members of the Center for High Impact Philanthropy, housed at the School of Social Policy and Practice, recognized growing uncertainty over the legitimacy of philanthropic organizations and started giving advice on their blog.

The event aimed to create a support network for those interested in pledging their hair to Locks of Love, an organization that uses donated hair to create wigs for children who have lost their hair due to severe illness.

For researchers at Penn and other institutions, the new ethics rules and budget to be announced by National Institutes of Health Director Francis Collins may have an impact on both current and future research.

Researchers from the University have recently been awarded a $4.35-million grant from the National Science Foundation to establish a Critical Zone Observatory in Puerto Rico.

In a new integrative and discussion-based course — CIS-125 Technology and Policy — undergraduate and graduate students grapple with the legal issues that relate to the advancement of technology.

With empty wallets and packed work schedules, students across the country are feeling the economy’s effects, and Penn undergrads are no exception.

While the situations warranting a UPenn Alert continue to be debated, DPS maintains that the system itself rests on the cutting edge of campus security technology.

For the past three years, the showdown with the Tigers has proved to have defining consequences, with the winner of the match going on to the Ivy title.

Senior Zach Klitzman looks back on the Men's Basketball team's last Big 5 win, in his freshman year.

When Harvard hired former Duke standout and Michigan coach Tommy Amaker after the 2006-07 season, hopes were high, but the Crimson’s win total stayed mediocre as usual.

What began with filling up to-go boxes in the dining halls and bringing them to homeless people has expanded into More than Pennies — a project dedicated to fighting hunger in Philadelphia.

Making young adults pay for content we are used to receiving for free will only further alienate us from newspapers. And the New York Times will not be able to survive if our generation does not replace its older readers.

At Penn, it feels like much of the student body is still infatuated with our audaciously hopeful president. Have we stopped questioning him because we like him too much?

For a team that has finished in the lower half of the Ivy standings every year since 1999, improving on last year’s 7-7 record and 4th place finish (where they tied with Columbia) is a lot to ask, especially with a shake up at the top.

We hope that Penn’s chapter of Moral Voices is successful in drawing attention to the often forgotten, but nonetheless worthwhile, issue of human trafficking.