Sophia Oak is a College senior from Honolulu. Her email is oakj@sas.upenn.edu.

The co-founder of the nonprofit TaketheFight visited Penn to recruit students for a fellowship program launched last week. The organization provides moral support to cancer patients by pairing them with college students.

Dismissing fanatics, however, is not nearly as interesting or productive as trying to get inside their heads.

You and I whoever we may be — neighbors, classmates, or strangers that pass on Locust — we are more similar than we think.

Furniture Campus Home Store has moved from its old location between Cosi and Urban Outfitters on 36th Street to a new location at 3801 Chestnut St.

Before becoming an engineering rockstar, Kumar was simply a teenager with a passion for science fiction.

This past week, I went to the One Direction concert at Lincoln Financial Field by myself. I had bought the tickets in September of last year (an embarrassing 12 months ahead of the actual performance), and at that time, I hadn’t known anyone at Penn well enough to ask if they’d want to go to a concert together.

It is by no means uncommon for a weekend doubleheader to feature clear high- and low-water marks. Only this weekend for Penn men’s soccer, the high point found them threatening to summit the pinnacle of the collegiate landscape, and the low point featured a team that was almost unrecognizable from earlier.

A breakdown of Penn Athletics' early season

And they’re off.

On the surface, a 2-2 record in the opening weekend doesn’t seem like it would lend much meaningful insight into such a seemingly enigmatic team. But actually, it’s the first truly promising sign that the team is zeroing in on its exciting potential.

Three games into Nicole Van Dyke’s tenure, Penn women’s soccer is firing on all cylinders. And to hear her players tell it, most of the credit should go to the first year coach.

As hard as it was, Brandon Copeland sat and watched.

Before becoming a professor, Barbie Zelizer was a journalist for Reuters.

Penn's Consortium for Undergraduate Women has rebranded itself as the Penn Association for Gender Equity.

The winning team, four Carnegie Mellon students, created a device that aids visually impaired people in communicating with technology.

Last year's four prize winners will return to campus throughout this semester to discuss their projects with students interested in applying.