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(03/31/22 6:19am)
Wellness at Penn — the University’s student medical care, counseling, and public health division — earned a perfect evaluation in the Human Rights Campaign Foundation’s Healthcare Equality Index for the fourth consecutive year.
(03/30/22 6:57am)
Penn’s COVID-19 case count and positivity rate increased last week, continuing a three-week upward trend.
(03/24/22 11:42pm)
Penn has reversed its plan to make masks optional in classrooms starting March 28 — keeping the current mandate in place for the time being.
(03/29/22 4:52am)
Penn Campus Health relaunches self-guided wellness programs for students for the spring semester.
(03/15/22 4:54pm)
Penn will drop its indoor mask mandate for all non-classroom indoor spaces effective immediately, following the City of Philadelphia’s move to the “All Clear” COVID-19 precautions tier. Masks will be required in classrooms until March 28.
(03/14/22 3:37am)
While Penn has not yet announced plans to lift its indoor mask mandate, the campus-wide COVID-19 positivity rate and case count remained stable for the week leading up to spring break.
(03/03/22 4:42am)
Philadelphia Health officials lifted the city’s indoor mask mandate for most indoor settings after a move to the "All Clear" COVID-19 precautions tier on Wednesday.
(03/02/22 4:58am)
Penn extends the deadline for community members to upload their COVID-19 booster vaccination or risk facing screening testing twice each week.
(02/16/22 4:30am)
The campus-wide COVID-19 case count and positivity rate plunged, enabling the University to resume indoor social gatherings and event registration.
(02/10/22 12:36am)
The undergraduate COVID-19 case count continued to increase sharply last week, reaching a semester high and continuing to hinder the possibility of a return to fully normal campus life for the foreseeable future.
(02/10/22 12:42am)
With positive COVID-19 cases among undergraduate students continuing to soar, more students than ever need advice on what to do after receiving a positive test result.
(02/04/22 5:22am)
The University's PennOpen Pass symptom and exposure tracker has been recently updated to provide guidance for students who test positive for COVID-19.
(02/02/22 3:26am)
Positive COVID-19 cases among undergraduate students skyrocketed during the week from Jan. 23 to Jan. 29, nearly tripling in number from the previous week and ending optimistic trends needed for a return to the normal policy on indoor social gatherings.
(01/31/22 5:39am)
Penn’s weekly COVID-19 cases and positivity rate decreased, while the total number of students in isolation sharply declined.
(01/26/22 3:37am)
Penn loosened its restrictions on indoor social gatherings which were first instituted at the end of the fall 2021 semester.
(01/24/22 4:27am)
Penn is set to begin in-person classes Monday, with a revised indoor masking policy as part of the University's spring semester COVID-19 mitigation efforts.
(01/21/22 3:45am)
Two Perelman School of Medicine Professors received the VinFuture Grand Prize for their contributions to the development of mRNA vaccine technology, providing the foundation for two COVID-19 vaccines.
(01/20/22 3:52am)
Penn’s weekly COVID-19 cases and positivity rate decreased while on-campus isolation capacity fell to 23.3% for the week leading up to on-campus move-in.
(01/14/22 4:29am)
Penn will host four COVID-19 booster vaccine clinics during the first week of the spring semester, on Jan. 14, 17, 18, and 19, in Pottruck Health and Fitness Center’s Gimbel Gymnasium.
(01/12/22 3:13am)
Penn will begin the spring semester with several COVID-19 mitigation measures — including two weeks of virtual learning and a new requirement to double-mask or use a KN95 or N95 mask — following December’s surge in cases.