Covid
Students support Penn’s vaccine mandate, but some worry it poses challenges for intl. students
Students are concerned the vaccine mandate could force international students to move to the United States earlier and cause them to miss New Student Orientation activities and in-person classes.
Projects for Progress recipients awarded up to $100,000 for social justice initiatives
The three winning teams were awarded grants of up to $100,000 to implement projects that address eradicating or reducing racism, achieving educational equity, or reducing health disparities.
Philadelphia lifts all remaining COVID-19 capacity and social distancing restrictions
The changes, which took effect on June 2, come as positive cases of the novel coronavirus have plunged to the lowest level in the city since fall 2020.
School of Arts and Sciences will no longer require social distancing indoors
All offices, conference rooms, classrooms, and labs are available to use at full capacity, and PennOpen Pass will no longer be used to enter buildings.
Penn Wharton Budget Model predicts remote learning will harm labor productivity, GDP
The study found that the labor productivity of children who participated in online learning due to COVID-19 school closures decreased.
Penn Med, CHOP contribute to $72,000 gift to address racial inequities surrounding COVID-19
Together for West Philadelphia, a health equity nonprofit, gifted $72,000 to the Black Doctors COVID-19 Consortium to provide free COVID-19 tests and vaccines to communities most impacted by the pandemic.
Penn will require faculty, staff, postdocs to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 by Aug. 1
Penn is the fourth Ivy League institution — following Brown, Columbia, and Yale — to require that its employees receive the COVID-19 vaccine.
Penn Medicine develops COVID-19 test that delivers results in minutes with 90% accuracy
A recent study on the RAPID test developed by a team at Penn Medicine found that it can detect COVID-19 within four minutes.
Penn Medicine will require all employees to be vaccinated against COVID-19
The University of Pennsylvania Health System is one of the first health systems in the country to require all of its employees to receive a COVID-19 vaccine.
Here’s what the Ivy League is planning for fall 2021
The eight institutions are all planning to resume in-person learning for fall 2021, and are also preparing to potentially implement a number of health and safety measures.
Penn drops outdoor mask mandate for fully vaccinated community members
Both the City of Philadelphia and Penn will still require that masks are worn indoors until at least June 11, when the city plans to reevaluate the policy.
COVID-19 has limited impact on Penn Course Review ratings, DP analysis finds
Professors and students attributed the largely stable ratings to the resilience of the Penn community and creative measures faculty members took to move their coursework online.
Penn eases summer COVID-19 campus and travel restrictions, upholds testing requirements
The updated guidelines remove restrictions on Penn-affiliated travel, allow departments to host visitors on campus, and permit the use of on-campus spaces.
In Photos: Celebrating the Class of 2021 with a commencement unlike any other
While friends and families of graduates weren't allowed into Franklin Field as spectators this year, here's what the unusual commencement honoring the Class of 2021 looked like.
Penn's undergraduate COVID-19 case count remains low in final weeks of spring semester
From May 2 through May 8, only four undergraduate students tested positive, less than 0.10% of students who were tested for COVID-19.
The Graduation Issue 2021: 2020-2021 Year in Review
The Class of 2021's final year at Penn was marked by pandemic-induced modifications to academics and campus life, featuring online classes, COVID-19 testing, and a largely shuttered campus.
The Graduation Issue 2021: 2019-2020 Year in Review
The Class of 2021's junior year started off like any other, but was upended as the COVID-19 pandemic swept the globe, forcing students to cut their spring semester on campus short and transition to online learning.
Penn's undergraduate case count remains low for third straight week as end of semester nears
Director of Campus Health Ashlee Halbritter said the continued low case count was good news and urged students to continue following public health guidelines as the end of the semester nears.
Philadelphia further eases COVID-19 restrictions on restaurants, catered events
City Health Commissioner Thomas Farley said at a press conference the the rate of new COVID-19 cases decreased in the city last week, allowing for the loosening of restrictions.