Penn shortens quarantine period by four days for students exposed to COVID-19
Penn is reducing its mandatory quarantine period from 14 to 10 days for students who are exposed to someone who tests positive for COVID-19, effective Feb. 16.
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Penn is reducing its mandatory quarantine period from 14 to 10 days for students who are exposed to someone who tests positive for COVID-19, effective Feb. 16.
Penn will remain at Campus Alert Level Two: Heightened Awareness this week, after "worrisome trends" in previous weeks' COVID-19 positivity rates subsided.
At least two students have tested positive for the B.1.1.7 COVID-19 variant — a more contagious form of COVID-19 — since arriving on campus in the past four weeks.
Penn’s undergraduate COVID-19 cases doubled for the second week in a row.
Penn has appointed Whitney Soule, the current senior vice president and dean of admissions and financial aid at Bowdoin College, as its next vice provost and dean of admissions.
As Penn prepares to welcome all undergraduate students back to campus for a hybrid spring semester in the midst of record-high COVID-19 case counts, University health officials are pointing to Penn Law School's containment of COVID-19 during its hybrid fall semester as an exemplar of how to reopen campus safely.
Penn recorded its highest weekly case count and positivity rate at 107 and 3.05%, respectively, last week, with Campus Health attributing the spike to travel and gatherings over the Thanksgiving holiday.
On May 25, George Floyd, a Black man in Minneapolis, was killed by a police officer who knelt on his neck for more than eight minutes. Floyd's death, and the killings of many other Black people at the hands of police, sparked a nationwide movement for racial justice — including protests on Penn's campus, more than 1,100 miles from Minneapolis. Philadelphia's protests over Floyd's killing lasted for more than a week straight.
Despite record-setting numbers of Penn students rushing to get COVID-19 tests ahead of Thanksgiving break, most test results have been returned within 24 to 72 hours, according to Chief Operating Officer for Wellness Services Erika Gross.
Penn student Mackenzie Fierceton was selected as one of 32 American recipients of the 2021 Rhodes Scholarship, becoming Penn's 31st Rhodes scholar since the scholarship's inception in 1902.
More than 15 years ago in a small laboratory at the Perelman School of Medicine, professor of Medicine Drew Weissman, his research partner, and a small team discovered a new way for mRNA to be used effectively to create vaccines.
Penn's 107 reported COVID-19 cases for the week from Oct. 24 to Oct. 31– the semester's highest weekly count – were largely due to three household spreads, according to Chief Wellness Officer Benoit Dubé.
Penn has laid out a series of recommendations for holiday travel, including leaving campus or the Philadelphia area sooner rather than later, in order to avoid peak holiday travel times.
As the sun rises on Nov. 4, the presidential election remains too close to call.
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After months of campaigning, Election Day has finally arrived.
In early May 2016, Tiffany Trump — a senior in the College at the time — was juggling campaigning with her father, preparing for law school at Georgetown University, and completing her Sociology thesis.
Hundreds of demonstrators, including Penn students, marched on the streets of West Philadelphia Saturday afternoon to protest the police killing of Walter Wallace Jr. on Monday.
Penn will open on-campus housing for the upcoming spring semester with the majority of classes still being taught remotely.
In conjunction with a drop in temperature at the tail end of October, Penn recorded this semester's highest weekly count of positive COVID-19 cases last week at 107 cases.