New theater course to have dance focus

he new course, Theater Arts 215, will focus on everything from dance theory to practice, and will involve a substantial amount of in-class experiential learning through movement and sensory experience.

Startup uses online games to assess job skills

Pymetrics, a 2012 startup cofounded by Harvard graduates Frida Polli and Julie Yoo, has recently landed on Penn's campus.

Penn symphony orchestra adds new director

The University’s largest ensemble has a new man at the helm, and the music department couldn’t be more pleased.

Professors write the path to Becoming Penn

What do murder, biological warfare and gentrification all have in common? They all helped shape Penn as a world-leading institution. “Becoming Penn,” a new book written by professor John Puckett and and University Archives and Records Center Director Mark Frazier Lloyd, presents Penn’s rise to an internationally-reputed intellectual destination. “For Penn to be attractive to... international audiences, it had to develop as a place that fostered the greatest number of incentives to students to study,” Lloyd said.