BEN CLAAR is a College senior from Scarsdale, N.Y.

Sands, the team's leading goal-scorer, has come up big when the pressure's highest time and time again this season. All six of her goals this season have been game-winners, tied for the second-most game-winners in the nation. 

Penn Athletics is currently in the "final stages" of an internal investigation conducted by a hired outside legal counsel. 

The award, which was part of the Bloomberg American Cities Climate Challenge, was also given to 19 other cities, including Pittsburgh, Boston, and Washington, D.C. 

The National Institutes of Health’s National Eye Institute (NEI) Audacious Goals Initiative  is granting $30 million total to five multidisciplinary teams for research into regenerative treatments for blindness. 

The 2016 presidential election ushered in a contentious period in U.S. politics that placed a Penn alumnus in the White House and that has divided our campus and our country. Two years later, much is at stake as the Penn community prepares to vote in what many experts call the most important midterm elections in our lifetimes. Here's what you need to know.

Songwriter Daniel Marino sued his co-writers after not receiving compensation and credit for their song 'Club Girl,' which was renamed 'Bad Girl' when Usher recorded it in 2004. 

The investigation comes in the wake of a grand jury report that found more than 300 Catholic priests across Pennsylvania abused upwards of 1,000 children over seventy years.

Voters will also answer "yes" or "no" to a city bond question asking whether Philadelphia should borrow $181 million for an investment in infrastructure projects such as streets, parks, and municipal buildings.   

Screening Facebook language data and linguistic cues could help clinicians detect depression symptoms, Johannes Eichstaedt, founding scientist and postdoctoral fellow at Penn, said. 

KRISTEN YEH is a College sophomore from West Covina, Calif.

The way women decide to vote will be a strong indication of the way demographics have shifted in the past two years, said professor Dawn Teele, recipient of Carrie Chapman Catt Prize for Research of Women in Politics.

Some senior societies have existed for decades, but in recent years, a collection of new societies have been established to recognize contributions within specific cultural and interest groups.  

In 2017, the number of women holding board seats in Philadelphia-based companies reached 17 percent — just one percent higher than the previous year.

"In every election I've ever covered going back almost 30 years, politicians have always said this is the most important election of our lifetime," Dick Polman, WHYY political columnist and Penn writer-in-residence, said. "It's kind of become a cliche— but this one really is."

In Philadelphia, there are five local, state, and national races on the ballot, in addition to a ballot question on the issue of public spending.  

The unforgiving definition of hazing (wherein almost any pledging activity could fall under the umbrella policy) has left students uninterested in amending their group practices in order to meet a seemingly impossible university standard.