In a frustrating season that has included three Ivy League losses by the slimmest of margins, senior Thomas Brandt is ready for the Penn men’s soccer team’s luck to turn around.

A problem Penn often faces when it travels to play a team with an AstroTurf field is that it needs to practice on AstroTurf, the default playing surface in Division I field hockey. Unfortunately for the Quakers, Franklin Field is composed of Sprinturf.

Graduates and undergraduates packed a Huntsman Hall classroom Thursday night to soak in the advice of two former Penn students, Joseph Cohen and David Tisch.

Facing a dominant Brown team on the road, the Penn football team might be slapped with the ‘underdog’ tag in an Ivy League matchup for the first time since its 2009 title run. But don’t count the Quakers among those who see this pivotal game that way.

Every year, around 300 students at Penn are identified with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder by Student Disabilities Services. But Disability Services Director Susan Shapiro suspects many more students suffer from the mental disorder.

Nursing Dean Afaf Meleis addressed nursing students, faculty and administrators on Thursday afternoon.

Upon returning from Thanksgiving break, students will find construction on Locust Walk complete.

Thirty-six students in grades one through six from Comegys Elementary School were at ZBT’s chapter house for an hour of Halloween-themed activities.

On Nov. 19, just before the Quakers kick off their final home game of the season against Cornell, a statue of the man they call “Concrete Charlie” will be unveiled.

A midweek, nonconference road game is hardly an ideal scenario for any team, much less a team competing to defend its Ivy League title. But for Penn women’s soccer, that is no excuse for sub-par effort.

Despite an early 1-0 lead, the Penn field hockey team fell to nonconference powerhouse Rider, 7-1, Wednesday in Lawrenceville, N.J.

Penn Hillel, along with other student organizations, raised nearly $2,000 for the Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research. The funds were raised through an event hosting comedian and television personality Evan Wecksell.

Right on the heels of Occupy Philadelphia protesters rallying at Huntsman Hall, a conference on critical theory is coming to Penn.

Starting Friday, students were no longer charged the $5 hourly fee to play recreational tennis at Penn Park’s outdoor Hamlin Tennis Courts. Following complaints from students, the Undergraduate Assembly worked with Penn Athletics and the Office of the President to remove the charges.

Wednesday, Assistant Sociology professor David Gibson spoke about tapes of John Kennedy in the first of three installments of the Lightbulb Café held at the Penn Museum. The series allows the community to ask questions of experts in an informal setting.

A Penn laboratory has successfully programmed the PR2 robot to scoop poop. “We wanted to do something difficult but utterly pedestrian, something that people could relate to,” third year Computer Science doctoral student Anthony Cowley said.

Flood waters that have been rising in Bangkok, Thailand, since July have displaced family members of Penn students. The Thai student association PennThai has been fundraising to aid those affected.