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Ten tips for navigating your first in-person semester at Penn
The Daily Pennsylvanian reached out to Penn students and faculty for advice on how incoming first years, transfer students, and sophomores can succeed in their first in-person semester.
Class of 2024 to attend first-ever second-year orientation
Members of the Class of 2024 will be able to participate in specialized programming overseen by the office of New Student Orientation & Academic Initiatives.
Five Guys to open on Penn’s campus this fall
Five Guys is a casual eatery which serves fast food like hamburgers and french fries.
In Photos: Exclusive first look at New College House West
New College House West is set to welcome its first residents in just under two weeks. Here's an exclusive first look at its features.
Some students support reinstating Penn’s indoor mask mandate, others feel it’s unnecessary
Some students welcomed the reinstatement of the mask mandate, saying that it is important to protect students, faculty, and staff and the surrounding Philadelphia area from the rapidly-spreading Delta variant.
Penn Medicine establishes professorship, fellowship for vaccine research and development
Professor of Medicine Drew Weissman — whose research allowed for the development of the COVID-19 mRNA vaccine — was named the inaugural Roberts Family Professor in Vaccine Research.
As Penn’s 2021 summer course session ends, some students say they will miss online learning
Students generally expressed that while they are looking forward to the switch to in-person learning in the fall, they will miss the flexibility of online courses.
Gutmann announces plans for a new $31 million student-focused performing arts center
Plans include creating a 450-seat theater and stage, and the center will support performing arts instructors and provide rehearsal and practice spaces.
Penn community members are once again required to wear masks indoors
A total of 80% of students enrolled in on-campus programs and 84% of faculty and staff have reported being fully vaccinated. The University expects the community vaccination rate to reach 90% by September.
Wharton prof. Eric Orts speaks with the DP about U.S. Senate race, climate change
Orts said that his campaign focus is on climate change, which he considers to be the most pressing issue facing the world today, and said he would use his position to enact meaningful climate reform.
Council on Foreign Relations invites PWH Director Michael Horowitz to be senior fellow
Horowitz, a professor of political science and Richard Perry University Professor at Penn, will be retaining his positions at Penn while acting as a senior fellow at the CFR.
Founder of Penn LGBT Center Bob Schoenberg dies at 76
Schoenberg founded the LGBT Center in 1982 after witnessing a Penn sophomore being severely beaten and targeted on Locust Walk for being gay.
Penn graduate Conor Lamb expected to enter race for U.S. Senate seat in Pennsylvania
2006 College and 2009 Law School graduate is expected to announce his candidacy on Aug. 6.
Penn Medicine hospitals rank 13th in U.S. News' list of best hospitals in the country
HUP and Penn Presbyterian were also jointly ranked the best in both the Philadelphia area and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
Prof. Dache becomes first tenured, female, Latinx professor in Graduate School of Education
Dache’s research focuses on how historical challenges and racial demographics influence access to higher education in places such as Havana, Cuba; Cape Town, South Africa; Ferguson, Missouri; and Rochester, New York.
For the first time in history, Wharton's MBA program will enroll more women than men
The Wharton School announced that nearly 52% of its incoming MBA students will be women, a 5% increase in the number of women enrolled since the program's most gender-equal Class of 2021.
Penn students teach Galápagos teens scuba diving techniques for community science project
The team of Penn students also worked with government officials to adopt more robust water quality testing and mapped trails through the islands' national parks.
Demand for ridesharing services in Philadelphia swells as prices increase by 40%
The price increases are largely the result of both a surge in demand and a shortage of drivers.
Van Pelt Library opens to Penn community, visitors ahead of in-person fall semester
Individuals no longer need to schedule an appointment or make a reservation to browse the Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center's stacks or to use self-serve study areas.