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Penn professor awarded 2022 Solvay Prize for research that laid groundwork for COVID-19 vaccine
The Science for the Future Solvay Prize ceremony is held in Brussels to honor scientific discoveries that have significantly advanced the field of chemistry and helped resolve global challenges.
Philadelphia officials seek to promote children's safety with summer program offerings
PlayItSafePHL is a guide to safe summer activities — including summer camps, athletic leagues, science programs, and swimming lessons, according to WHYY.
Houston Hall to be revamped into ‘hub for students’ by Vice Provost for University Life
Houston Hall, the oldest student union in the nation, will undergo a gradual revitalization process to become a central hub of student life on campus.
Philadelphia to restart wastewater testing initiative
Samples from three wastewater sites will be collected twice a week, with plans for additional collection locations throughout the city to help officials more effectively monitor COVID-19 in specific populations.
Pa. House passes bill that would ban transgender women from women's sports
The bill — titled the “Fairness in Women’s Sports Act” — passed by a 115 to 84 bipartisan vote and will be passed on to the state senate.
Princeton will not remove a professor's controversial quote from university-affiliated website
In July 2020, Princeton Classics professor Joshua Katz wrote an essay in which he called the Black Justice League, a former student group at Princeton, a “small local terrorist organization,”
TEDxPenn will host its 2022 conference, Æffect, in person
The conference will take place at 1 p.m. on Saturday at the Annenberg Center for Performing Arts.
Faculty call on Penn to take action to save the UC Townhomes
The eviction of the townhomes residents, which is scheduled to take place this July, has garnered significant attention and backlash from the Penn community.
Penn researchers find that emergency departments can improve naloxone carrying
Naloxone, also known as Narcan, is a drug that is capable of reversing the effects of an opioid overdose and potentially saving lives.
Kamala Harris calls for new regulations to help union workers at Philadelphia rally
Harris spoke at the Metal Worker's Local Union No. 19 in the parking lot of the Sheet Metal Worker's Union Hall in South Philadelphia, along with other Democratic politicians.
Mask mandates return across the country amid increase in COVID-19 cases
This trend toward indoor masking arrives as the highly transmissible BA.2 subvariant has become the dominant version of COVID-19 in the U.S.
Upperclassmen write letters to their younger selves in student initiative "Dear Penn Freshman"
"Dear Penn Freshmen" aims to break the stigma of “Penn Face” and offers underclassmen advice from all corners of Penn’s campus.
Marianne Williamson talks ‘political miracles’ ahead of Penn Justice Dems speaker event
Williamson will be speaking in Houston Hall’s Bodek Lounge next Tuesday, April 19 at a town hall event co-sponsored by Penn Justice Dems and the Andrea Mitchell Center for Democracy.
Penn community rallies in support of former Rhodes Scholar Mackenzie Fierceton
The walkout and protest was held in response to Fierceton’s two-year-long dispute with University administrators to recognize her first-generation, low-income status as a survivor of sexual abuse and the American foster care system.
Penn reinstates indoor mask mandate as COVID-19 cases surge on campus
Chief Wellness Officer Benoit Dubé told The Daily Pennsylvanian that the decision to reinstall the indoor mask mandate is simply a response to a trend.
Inside Mackenzie Fierceton's ongoing legal battle with the University
Fierceton recently re-emerged in the national spotlight following a feature in The New Yorker that detailed the story of her history of abuse and investigation by Penn and the Rhodes Trust.
Penn tells students with COVID-19 to isolate in place as it nears capacity in isolation housing
Executive Director for Public Health and Wellbeing Ashlee Halbritter also said that Penn is preparing an isolation housing portfolio expansion by using additional University-owned properties and apartments.
Five Penn students awarded Goldwater Scholarship
College juniors Allison Chou and Andrew Sontag and Engineering juniors Laila Barakat Norford, Shriya Karam, and Joshua Chen are among the chosen 417 students.
Wellness groups at Penn host Be Kind to Your Mind Night
The event aimed to give students an opportunity to discuss their mental health in a supportive environment and decompress from the strain of daily life at Penn.