Often in staking out our own identities, we inadvertently reinforce barriers or create new ones.

Fall classes in 2013 will begin Aug. 28, the earliest start date since 1974. New Student Orientation will begin Aug. 23. CALENDAR: Final changes to the 2013-2014 school year

Sophomore swimmer Shelby Fortin has to prove herself just one more time in order to join the United States Olympic swimming team.

After an eight-year hiatus, a familiar ally has returned to Penn wrestling. Brian Dolph, who first joined the Quakers coaching staff as an assistant in 1994, left to pursue work as a high-school coach and physical education teacher in 2003.

Many magazines manipulate images without telling their readers. A group of researchers at Dartmouth College may have solved this problem by discovering a way to determine how extensively a digital photo has been edited.

This month, students involved with Greek life at Penn will have the opportunity to advocate for their fraternities and sororities in Washington, D.C.

Missy Stein, a volunteer for Komen, discussed the organization’s non-profit marketing and shared her personal survival story in a room filled with pink donuts and breast cancer pamphlets.

Recent complaints raised by a group of Master of Social Work students about their non-profit fieldwork placement have prompted debate among students and administrators in the School of Social Policy & Practice.

Preliminary hearings were held yesterday for the five members of the Penn community who were arrested in the Occupy Philadelphia protests on Nov. 30.

Currently at 1-1, the team will have to win both of its matches this week to reach its goal of heading into winter break with a winning record.

History professor Barbara Savage was presented the 2012 Louisville Grawemeyer Award in Religion last week for ideas set forth in her book, Your Spirits Walk Beside Us: The Politics of Black Religion.

A University of Kentucky College of Medicine professor writes a guest column on how Penn Integrates Knowledge professor Ezekiel Emanuel should lead the change in health care, starting at Penn.

Stirring up controversy comes easily to Joe Nocera. The New York Times business columnist came to the Kelly Writers House last night to speak on his writing style, hardships and voice.

Would Herman Cain’s fondness of extra-marital affairs really affect his ability to make decisions and craft policy?

To ban rollouts is a sin, and the powers that be at Villanova should make sure this doesn’t happen again.

Though the Penn women’s basketball team is off to its hottest six-game start since 1980-81, the team’s true test lies ahead.

Long before Connecticut and Tennessee emerged as national powerhouses, it was Immaculata University — a small Catholic college just 20 miles outside Philadelphia — that was the unlikely winner of the first three national championships in women’s basketball from 1972-1974.