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(02/08/21 1:26am)
Williams Cafe and Benny’s Diner, along with many other Penn Student Agencies businesses, will remain closed for the spring semester as the COVID-19 pandemic continues to disrupt business operations.
(02/01/21 7:57am)
As COVID-19 continues to disrupt academic life, some students have opted to take the spring semester off instead of enrolling in virtual classes.
(01/17/21 4:39am)
As about 3,000 undergraduate students continue to move in to their on-campus residences, here's what you need to know about housing and dining for the spring 2021 semester.
(12/10/20 4:30am)
After just weeks of normal instruction at the beginning of the spring semester, the COVID-19 pandemic plunged academics and student life at Penn into uncertainty, indefinitely. Since spring break, the vast majority of courses have been conducted remotely — and will continue to be mostly virtual in the spring 2021 semester.
(12/03/20 5:24am)
Two Wharton alumni raised nearly $20,000 in a virtual fundraiser event for their President’s Engagement Prize-winning project, which aims to launch improv theater programs across 20 more schools in Philadelphia.
(11/19/20 6:03am)
On Monday, the city of Philadelphia announced stricter COVID-19 restrictions, closing indoor dining, gyms, and museums as well as banning private indoor gatherings like weddings, funerals, and parties. The new rules will take effect Friday and remain in place until Jan. 1. These regulations come as COVID-19 cases continue to rise in Philadelphia and across the country.
(11/17/20 4:34am)
As Penn prepares to enter its third semester under the cloud of the COVID-19 pandemic, this year's seniors are wondering if they will face the same fate of the Class of 2020 and see their long-awaited Commencement ceremony canceled.
(11/05/20 7:08am)
Along with 1968 Wharton graduate Donald Trump's presidential campaign, there are 16 other Penn graduates who are running for governmental office across the country. They span across six states and the majority are running for seats in the United States House of Representatives. Nine are incumbents, while seven are running for the first time.
(10/29/20 4:40am)
As COVID-19 cases rise in Philadelphia and as the spring semester looms closer, students living in dorms are worried about enforcing testing on campus.
(10/16/20 3:44am)
Following an increase in gun violence in the city, Philadelphia filed a lawsuit against the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in order to create stronger gun control laws. The number of victims this year has increased by 47% from 2019, with more than 1,600 people injured by gunfire so far this year.
(10/06/20 3:01am)
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died only two weeks ago, with a deathbed wish that she not be replaced until there is a new president in office. But President and 1968 Wharton graduate Donald Trump has nominated Judge Amy Coney Barrett for Ginsburg’s newly open Supreme Court seat, and the Republican Senate majority is moving quickly to confirm her before Election Day.
(10/05/20 3:06am)
With the coronavirus pandemic aging across the country indefinitely, more students than usual decided to take a gap semester or a gap year instead of studying online this semester.
(09/23/20 3:12am)
The United States Department of Education released new Title IX rules that were to be in effect by August 14, a few weeks before the new academic year. Some of Penn's on-campus sexual assault advocacy groups are worried the new regulations will make it harder for victims to seek justice.
(09/23/20 2:22am)
Even though few students — especially first years — are in Philadelphia this fall, some had to enroll in the Penn Student Insurance Plan. Some are frustrated with the plan's cost and question whether they should have to do so when not physically on campus.
(09/09/20 3:44am)
The coronavirus pandemic – and Penn's abrupt decision to close campus for the fall – has changed the financial situation of many Penn students and their families. But for some, trying to decrease their initial financial aid package has caused even more financial stress and uncertainty for this fall semester.
(09/01/20 3:23am)
Penn sophomores founded new initiative to tutor students newly immigrated from Bangladesh in the West Philadelphia community.
(08/21/20 12:19am)
Penn is among only three Ivy League institutions to decrease tuition amid a fully remote semester — but some students say this change does not go far enough to make up for the decreased quality of remote learning.
(08/08/20 5:05am)
Students are frustrated by the lack of flexibility in scheduling as they attempt to register for online classes for the fall semester.
(08/03/20 5:07am)
As ongoing calls to ban historically white Greek organizations sweep universities across the nation, some Penn students are calling for the abolition of campus greek organizations and advocating for the re-designation of on-campus fraternity houses as cultural spaces.
(07/17/20 4:51am)
The Wharton School's Health Care Management department launched a joint M.D. and Ph.D. program with Meharry Medical College, a historically Black medical college in Nashville, Tenn.