Campus & Community

The etching by impressionist painter Edgar Degas pictures a little girl, her expression serious, her dress formal, her long hair pinned back with a bow. The extraordinarily rare artwork is one of 30 French master prints in a new exhibition at the Arthur Ross Gallery.

The University of Pennsylvania has named Matt Sessa the executive director of student registration and financial services. His appointment will be effective Jan. 16.

University of Pennsylvania Professor Kenneth Lum, chair of the Fine Arts Department in the School of Design, has been named an Officer in the Order of Canada, one of the

In practice spaces across campus, student dance troupes come together to swing, spin, and sway.

The University of Pennsylvania will honor the life of Martin Luther King Jr. with film screenings, lectures, workshops, panel discussions and musical performances during its 23rd Annual Commemorative Symposium on Social Change, Jan. 15-31.

A political science major and student fellow at Penn's Perry World House is working with a team of student fellows to construct a website showing how cities deal with an influx of climate change refugees.

If Dave Joseph becomes prime minister of his native Jamaica one day, he will have achieved a long-time goal despite experiencing tragedy there. He says the island is a vital part of who he is and that it drives him to succeed.

A political science professor at the University of Pennsylvania who has been studying Russian politics for more than a quarter century is in the midst of wrapping up two books.

The Wharton Communication Program director discusses teaching students how to be better oral and written communicators, and preparing them for the communication challenges they will face as managers. Comedian Jerry Seinfeld once joked about a study that found that speaking in front of a crowd is considered the No. 1 fear of the average person.