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Fuel Our Heroes, a student-run campaign that fundraises for frontline medical professionals, launched its Penn-specific branch on May 11 to support Penn Medicine employees during the coronavirus pandemic.
Penn students recently launched Invisible Hands PHL to deliver essentials — for free — to elderly, disabled, and immunocompromised Philadelphia residents who are homebound due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Penn students have had their internships, jobs, and summer travel plans canceled as the COVID-19 pandemic continues to upend daily life, leaving many with spare time to learn.
It seems paradoxical that uncertainty is one of life’s certainties. The COVID-19 pandemic has challenged our beliefs and attitudes in a very short time. While many of us are scared about our health and getting our life back to normal, I’ve realized that in my home country, Colombia, people are more terrified to die from hunger than from the virus.
Though the shock of their abruptly canceled season still lingers, Penn baseball has remained connected and active, despite COVID-19 restrictions.
I am a sucker for good endings. (Perhaps that’s why I like the slow build-up of British novels — the focus of my very first English class at Penn that got me hooked on the department.) I think most Penn students would agree. After all, many of us got here through a display of delayed gratification, grinding hard during our teens for the sweet reward of a college acceptance. My high school years did not have real hardships, but on a day-to-day basis it was a little isolating to take different classes from my friends and spend my nights studying instead of socializing.
Graduation ceremonies and Commencement would have been this weekend. Ever since Penn first announced there would be no in-person ceremonies this year, I have been thinking about what graduation means as a first-generation, low-income student, and what it means for my family.
First-year fall is a daunting hallway full of unmarked doors — you have so many opportunities, and it’s impossible to know in the moment which will help you feel fulfilled in your next four years. Unfortunately for all of us, most doors in this hallway will never be opened: so many potential lives are left unexplored. Closing too many of these doors is all too easy, but it also leads us down a path of least resistance. Keeping too many of these doors open can be overwhelming; too much choice isn’t always a good thing.
I’ve written maybe 100 versions of this column in my head.
The coronavirus pandemic has forced many Penn students to return to their permanent residences as they have transitioned to online learning for the remainder of the spring semester. For some of these students, the semester would have to be completed in New York City — the epicenter of the crisis in the United States.
With college campuses around the country shut down indefinitely, two Penn students have launched a website to help incoming first-generation, low-income students learn more about the universities they might attend.
On March 18, College and Wharton first-year Yuwei Guo was all set to leave Penn for the semester. She caught a flight to her native Beijing, China that day — but she didn't actually return home until April 2.
Penn Museum faculty and students celebrated Women's History Month last week by creating and editing Wikipedia articles about notable women affiliated with the museum.
Still struggling to adjust to life during COVID-19, Penn went back to school this week like never before – online and off-campus.
While the coronavirus pandemic rages on, Penn students and professors still returned to class — connecting virtually from different cities and time zones across the globe.
This story was last updated at 9:56 p.m. on Sept. 24. Please check back for new updates.
The Ivy League has canceled the conference’s basketball tournaments just days before they were scheduled to start. It’s yet another in a series of mindless decisions by the Ivy League regarding the tournaments over the past several years.
Philadelphia Councilmember Kenyatta Johnson, who received his Masters of Government Administration from Penn in 2000, is facing two federal charges for corrupt land sale practices — but he remains adamant the charges are unfounded.
Michael Bloomberg's presidential campaign has flooded the country with television ads, Instagram posts, and now, emails from the president of Penn Democrats.
Finishing at the top of the Ivy League as a freshman tends to surprise people.