College senior Mercedes Owens elected Undergraduate Assembly President
College senior Mercedes Owens and College junior Mary Sadallah will serve as the next Undergraduate Assembly president and vice president.
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College senior Mercedes Owens and College junior Mary Sadallah will serve as the next Undergraduate Assembly president and vice president.
Penn will not report its daily COVID-19 case count for the next few weeks as the University shifts all data related to coronavirus testing to the central Penn Coronavirus website.
The Division of Public Safety reported a robbery with weapon at the 200 block of South 43rd Street Thursday night, sending a UPennAlert to the Penn community at approximately 9:13 p.m.
Following a spike in COVID-19 cases across the United States, Penn is no longer inviting students back to campus for the fall semester and is encouraging all students not to return to Philadelphia.
During Quaker Days last year, rising Wharton sophomore Jerry Sun entered the Penn scene when a ceiling panel almost fell on top of him during a speaker event. He jumped out of the way just in time and checked to see that the girl next to him was unharmed. In that moment when no one knew how to react, Sun laughed. Seeing him make light of the situation, the crowd of nervous students relaxed and immediately joined him in laughter — an unexpected ice breaker for the prospective Class of 2023.
After suffering a $47 million loss this spring due to the coronavirus outbreak, Penn is projecting a $91 million budget deficit for fiscal year 2021.
President Donald Trump’s niece, Mary Trump, accused Donald Trump of paying someone to take the SAT in his place to help him get into Penn.
Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology sued United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Department of Homeland Security on Wednesday in response to its order barring many international students from studying in the United States this fall.
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Social media posts featuring college students making racist remarks have circulated amid the George Floyd protests, prompting universities across the nation to take appropriate action.
A video allegedly featuring a Penn student directing a racial slur at a peer while they both were in high school has recently circulated on social media. The Penn student denies the allegations, claiming that the slurs have been falsely attributed to him.
From taking the LSAT at home, to waiting hours for rescheduled MCAT test registrations, Penn students and recent graduates are facing unprecedented changes to standardized testing for graduate school admissions.
While the shift to online classes brought the Class of 2020's senior year to an abrupt end without the usual celebrations and an in-person commencement, the pandemic should not overshadow their time at Penn. On campus, the graduates experienced historic moments together such as 1968 Wharton graduate Donald Trump’s election and the Eagles’ first-ever Super Bowl victory. Students also challenged the administration on multiple fronts including a call for divestment from fossil fuels.
Penn is planning for a combination of in-class and virtual learning for fall 2020 depending on the coronavirus pandemic in the upcoming months.
Penn will provide undergraduate students whose financial aid packages include a summer savings expectation with a supplemental COVID-19 Summer Savings Grant for the 2020-2021 academic year.
With the shift to online classes, the role of teaching assistants as intermediaries between students and professors is more important than ever. Some TAs say they are overwhelmed with work and frustrated with the lack of support from the University amid the coronavirus pandemic.
On Tuesday at approximately 2 p.m., a Penn professor sent an email to students speculating that classes would be taught remotely in fall 2020. The message, later denounced by administrators, sparked widespread alarm and confusion among students.
Penn is canceling all on-campus summer courses and programs, reducing its budget for the 2021 fiscal year, and launching an emergency grant fund for employees in response to the coronavirus pandemic.
Grammy-winning artist Lizzo treated workers at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania with a lunch delivery in support of their fight against COVID-19.
Penn Law School faculty voted unanimously today to implement a mandatory Credit/Fail grading policy for spring 2020.