This past Sunday, Penn foil won the National Squad Championships, officially earning it the title of ‘best foil team in the country.

On Monday, Maria Reyes Garcia-Pellon, charged with the stabbing of her husband, former Penn basketball center Matt White, was declared competent to stand trial and waived her preliminary hearing.

The Penn men’s tennis team will continue this century-old rivalry Wednesday afternoon at the Levy Pavilion, where it will try to increase its winning record over Navy. The Midshipmen haven’t beaten Penn since 1999.

After finishing in fourth place at Ivy Heptagonals, freshman high jumper Thomas Pitt is ready to take off.

The case of Nadirah Farah Foley, who had posted excerpts from students’ application essays to her personal Facebook page, raises questions about the impact of social media on college admissions.

The Committee on Manufacturer Responsibility will make a recommendation this Spring regarding Penn’s contract with Adidas, which has been accused of not paying severance benefits to former workers of the PT Kizone factory in Indonesia.

The Wharton School announced in October of last year that 2001 graduate Sukanto Tanoto, along with 1960 graduate Alvin V. Shoemaker, was the recipient of the Wharton Dean’s Medal, one of the highest honors presented by Wharton. But Tanoto’s companies are affiliated with rainforest destruction and tax evasion.

The sequestration cuts set to happen this Friday would cut $40 million in federal research funds for Penn Medicine and may affect a generation of researchers.

In case you’re not one of Adam Aron’s more than 28,000 Twitter followers, the Philadlephia 76ers CEO and co-owner is not one to shy away from a challenge.

After a round of discussion last week, the official budget now proposes to give the Student Activities Council $1,065,790.13 —around a 6.5 percent increase from last year.

During Koop’s time as surgeon general, he was best known for his campaign against smoking. He also wrote an educational paper during this time about HIV and AIDS, when the disease was first subjected to public controversy.

The summer before his freshman year at The College of New Jersey, sophomore Ryan Dolan watched the movie “Limitless” on his flight down to Hawaii for vacation, and was inspired to create a real-life version of the pill that grants Bradley Cooper’s character superhuman power and focus.

Houston Hall has a complex recycling operation and has evolved over the years.

Maybe we should just be more open. The fall 2013 courses are up on Penn In Touch, and as I scan over the hundreds of listings, I’m trying to temper my graduation requirements with my intellectual curiosity.

Secularism as understood today, although a great idea in the West, isn’t always exportable. The problem is that secularism is not a neutral concept but has positive associations with modernity and democracy.

The Quakers were under the radar against Duke, but this time around they will be the favor as they face as St. Joe’s.

Brenza was a decided outsider to the track scene. But once he picked up a shot put for the first time, magic happened. Brenza’s hard work paid off in a big sense, culminating in a spot in Penn track history.