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Penn reappoints Vijay Kumar as Engineering Dean through June 2027
“The world needs more engineers, and I am proud to be Dean of a school that graduates outstanding engineers who are poised to have a tremendous impact on the world,” Kumar wrote in an emailed statement to the DP.
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.
Chinese intl. students urge Penn to back their rebuke of Trump era visa suspensions
In a joint letter signed by students from 49 other U.S. universities, Penn Chinese intl. students criticized Trump's Presidential Proclamation 10043.
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 ranks No. 2 in Forbes’ 2021 list of colleges with most billionaire alumni
Penn ranks No. 2 in the world for the most billionaire alumni, according to the 2021 Forbes annual World's Billionaires list.
Treating hepatitis B in HIV patients can reduce risk of primary liver cancer, Penn Medicine study finds
The study found that patients with both HIV and hepatitis B had a two-fold increase in primary liver cancer and that treatment of hepatitis B reduced that risk by 58%.
Viral Instagram page ‘Black Ivy Stories’ launches competition to archive Black experiences
The Black Ivy Time Capsule is a competition that accepts creative work focused on Black life at the eight Ivy League schools.
2021 graduate paints campus food truck with Chinese paintings to counter anti-Asian hate
Rosa Sun completed the project for FNAR 489: Senior Seminar Project (Spring), a required course for fine arts and design students.
Wharton receives $5 million Bitcoin donation, the largest crypto donation in Penn history
The Wharton School received an anonymous $5 million donation in the form of Bitcoin last week, the largest cryptocurrency donation in University history.
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.