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The fall semester has been characterized by Zoom fatigue, challenges of at-home learning, and a polarized presidential election. In response to the tumult of fall 2020, a petition calling on the University to extend the deadline to opt-in to pass/fail grading has garnered over 3,200 student signatures.
For Penn students working on Joe Biden's campaign, the fall has been filled with 70-hour weeks, tabling on Locust Walk, and running phone bank hubs. As the campaign reaches its final stretch, politically active students are grinding nonstop to help the former vice president emerge victorious in key battleground areas like Pennsylvania and Florida next week.
A limited number of seats in the Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center is available for students living on campus to study individually.
In July, two members of Congress penned a letter to Penn President Amy Gutmann asking her to disclose the percentage of Penn’s endowment assets that are managed by firms with over 50% minority or women ownership. The University responded but failed to answer the Congressmen's inquiry.
After Penn closed on-campus housing and advised students to not come to Philadelphia this fall, several dozen first-year students flocked to The Chestnut, a new luxury apartment complex off campus, in hopes of mimicking a normal college experience.
Although most first-year students are starting off their Penn careers from the comfort of their homes, campus activist groups are finding ways to reach the Class of 2024 virtually and share their critiques of Penn’s impact on the school community and the city of Philadelphia.
Two Annenberg faculty members died in the past week.
With the flexibility of asynchronous classes and reduced club commitments due to the loss of in-person gatherings, some students are piling on course credits to take advantage of this online semester.
New research from Penn’s Annenberg Public Policy Center reveals that belief in conspiracy theories about the coronavirus pandemic is correlated with the refusal to both accept a potential COVID-19 vaccine and engage in behaviors such as mask-wearing to mitigate spread of the virus.
Burdened by the combination of synchronous class sessions and pre-recorded lectures, students in STEM classes said they are spending more time "in class" than in a typical in-person semester.
The weekly COVID-19 case count at Penn spiked considerably last week with 76 positive cases, nearly tripling the previous week's numbers of 26.
A top former Republican election lawyer and Penn alum refuted 1968 Wharton graduate and President Donald Trump’s claims that elections are “rigged” and “fraudulent” in an op-ed in The Washington Post on Tuesday.
Though students have so far applauded the University's first-ever virtual class shopping period, some professors have opted out of the program entirely, citing privacy concerns about recorded class sessions.
Four months after The Wistar Institute and Penn Medicine began testing Inovio Pharmaceutical's COVID-19 vaccine, all trial participants have demonstrated an overall immune response and experienced little to no side effects. Phases two and three of the study are expected to commence in September with more participants.
All students returning to Philadelphia this fall will be eligible for free COVID-19 testing upon arrival. Beginning Sept. 14, testing will only be available for symptomatic students and those identified in a higher risk category.
With the closure of on-campus housing this fall, students returning to Philadelphia to live off campus will have limited access to buildings on campus.
All domestic undergraduate students returning to Philadelphia will be required to complete a self-administered COVID-19 saliva test at home before they arrive on campus.
Newly appointed Wharton School dean Erika James announced the program's shift to a remote model to students in a program-wide town hall meeting Friday morning.
Incoming international first years taking an online-only course load will not be allowed in the United States this fall.
All Penn pre-orientation programs will proceed virtually for the 2020-21 academic year.