Greg Johnson

Talk of concussions has blanketed the news in recent years, most frequently concerning items about sports, especially football. Barely a week goes by, it seems, without a story of an athlete retiring early or in his or her prime due to fear of concussions or because of multiple concussions, or of an athlete donating his or her brain to research after passing away.

 Named in honor of William Fontaine, who in 1963 became Penn’s first tenured African-American faculty member, the Fontaine Society, sponsored by the Office of the Provost, is one of a portfolio of activities at the University designed to enha

The Republican and Democratic Pennsylvania primaries will be held on Tuesday, April 26, and the Keystone State is a key stone in the 2016 presidential election. The Republican primary will award 71 delegates: 17 to the statewide winner and 54 unbound delegates. The Democratic contest will proportionately award 210 delegates.

The world of human beings is not given to them. It is something they must create.

The field of Queer studies has its roots in defiance and rebellion. The activists and academics who founded the discipline were revolting against a heteronormative nation and complete and total assimilation, breaking the rules of how to be scholars, and reshaping popular notions about sexuality.

More than 100 years have passed since W.E.B. Du Bois wrote “The Philadelphia Negro” and the United States is a much different country. America has grown up and become a more cultured, tolerant, and civilized nation.

Susan Wharton, a wealthy philanthropist from the family that gave the Wharton School its name, set in motion the chain of events that brought historian and sociologist W.E.B. Du Bois to Penn.

To commemorate its 60th anniversary, the Philadelphia Big 5—a college basketball collective comprised of Penn, La Salle, Saint Joseph’s, Villanova, and Temple—is for the first time inducting noteworthy teams into the Big 5 Hall of Fame, one from each member school.

ACCIDENTAL BEGINNINGS: Sophomore Alexa Hoover started playing field hockey by accident. When she was 4 years old, her mom tried to sign her up for soccer at the local YMCA, but registration was full.