Final home weekend gives struggling Penn squad last chance for home Ivy win

New head coach starts Penn career against his alma mater, No. 8 Duke in Durham, N.C.

The No. 3 Quakers have not lost a season opener since 2004 and have also made a habit of downing Drexel in recent years — kicking off each of the past three seasons with wins over the Dragons.

Penn landed the first blow, but the title is on the line for the Big Red in Ithaca, N.Y., when they get a shot to avenge their upset to the Quakers.

Investigators say they found fetuses in jars and bloodied floors in Kermit Gosnell’s clinic at 38th Street and Lancaster Avenue. Gosnell has temporarily lost his license.

Philly Fight Night, a boxing match to benefit the Boys and Girls Clubs of Philadelphia, will pit graduate students from the Wharton School, the Law School and the School of Engineering and Applied Science against one another in the ring.

Total charges to undergraduates for the 2010-11 school year will rise to $51,944 from $49,986 this year. The 3.9 percent increase is the second-smallest ever behind last year's 3.8 percent rise.

The Research Council of the Graduate and Professional Student Assembly recently provided over 80 applicants with grants for the spring. The recipients — students from the seven research schools — will present their work at conferences around the world.

I’m by no means knocking Barbie’s new career choice as a Computer Engineer, I just think it’s going to take more than a doll to bring about the gender balance we need.

Grades are overrated. Yeah, I said it. Grades are so arbitrary, it’s hard to take them seriously as an indicator of future success. Just work hard in your classes, and take the ones you want to work hard in.

Letters to the editor about human trafficking and diversity in academics.

The protest will be repeated today and every subsequent Friday this semester as part of “Fair Food Fridays.” The campaign, which originated in 2001, centers around human-rights issues with Aramark.

After four stellar seasons, quartet of Penn seniors is gunning for a squash national title at Howe Cup

While the Quakers’ top 17 swimmers began the Ivy League Championships yesterday in Boston, the rest of the team is traveling to Pittsburgh to compete in the Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) Championships at Trees Pool.

Though many think a healthy lifestyle can easily be achieved through diet and exercise, the success of anti-obesity programs depends on a host of external factors, according to experts.

The designs for the Krishna P. Singh Center for Nanotechnology — which has been eight years in the making — were approved Thursday at the Facilities and Campus Planning Trustee Meeting.

Although the predicted snowstorm had started outside, the front room at the Kelly Writers House was packed Thursday evening when Joe Garden, features editor at The Onion, and his fellow writer Chris Pauls came to speak about satirical journalism.