Eric Berdinis, a Zeta Beta Tau brother, went from working as an average web design intern at ZooZ Media to becoming the fourth-largest shareholder of GankIt, a virtual marketplace launched this summer

On Saturday, Penn students of all class years gathered for the Social Planning and Events Committee’s second annual Fall Festival, which featured a Nickelodeon theme this year.

For Penn alumnus Peter Gaffney, balancing teaching with the co-direction of his vaudeville burlesque theater isn’t hard — except for when students come to shows featuring his strip act.

Over 100 attended Sigma Kappa’s second-annual Quizzo philanthropy event on Friday night, which raised over $4,000 for Alzheimer’s research.

The Quakers hit Post with more than a few “Welcome to the League” tackles and touchdown runs en route to a 42-14 victory.

The defending Ivy champion Penn football team proved why it’s ranked No. 24 in the FCS, hanging tough with the No. 1 Wildcats late in the game.

The Red and Blue, who were ranked No. 25 going into the weekend, lost 1-0 to Adelphi on Friday before rebounding with a 2-1 victory over Richmond on Sunday.

The women’s soccer team kicked off its Ivy season with a big 4-3 victory over two-time defending champions Harvard Friday.

Holding the festival earlier in the school year allowed many more students from all 12 of the graduate and professional schools at Penn to attend events like Saturday’s “Block Party” in Houston Hall and the Perelman Quadrangle.

Though the Quakers won their first set rather handily, Delaware stormed back to defeat Penn 3-1 in a tightly contested match in Newark, Del., Saturday night.

New students running for Class Board and Undergraduate Assembly spots used targeted e-mails, videos and door-to-door knocking to attract voters.

At the Cissie Leary Memorial Invitational, freshman standout Connie Hsu and senior Alexa Ely earned the tournament’s doubles championship and Hsu took home her second collegiate singles title.

Members of the Penn and Philadelphia community crowded into the Penn Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology Sunday for "Turkish Delight!," a three-hour celebration of the opening of the new exhibition, "Archaeologists and Travelers in Ottoman Lands."

After a steep drop that reflected the financial crisis last year, Penn’s endowment has shown significant improvement for Fiscal Year 2010 with a 12.6-percent return on investment.

A bill pending in Congress would give an additional $2.5 billion to the emergency fund supporting Way to Work. We hope this bill gains traction immediately.

College juniors Ricky Lurito and Jared Waxman will use Penn students as subjects in a study to decipher how a networked life affects personal interactions.

Well, whether the University likes it or not, it is inherently political. Despite distaste for appearing partisan, Penn’s administration does not — and should not — excuse itself from the political process.