Wechsler previously served as chair of the Department of Neurology and as Vice President for Telemedicine in the Physician Services Division at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.

On Friday, Penn Athletics announced that Meredith Schamun will be the new head coach for Penn volleyball, the fourth person to take the job in the past five seasons.

Provost Wendell Pritchett wrote in an email to Penn undergraduates Friday morning that students must opt in to take their classes pass/fail, and have until April 13 to do so.

The sites allow patients to stay in their cars as healthcare professionals in protective gear approach them individually to complete a nasal swab. 

After 19 years on Penn gymnastics' coaching staff and 14 years as the head coach, John Ceralde has parted ways with the Red and Blue.

College junior Amanpreet Singh, who wrote the petition on behalf of SLAP, said the petition's purpose is to ensure that Bon Appétit employees continue to be paid, either by the University, or by Bon Appétit and its parent company, Compass group.  

An email from CHAS sent to GAs on March 17 read that current GA responsibilities conclude on March 19 and GAs who are out of town should not to return to campus. 

Although Penn has no legal responsibility to pay the dining workers, doing so would be a powerful act of good faith that shows Penn cares about staff and the local community.

Not only were Penn’s classes pushed online, students required to leave campus, and in-person graduation canceled, but our frisbee season was cut short — an abrupt and far-too-early end to the seniors’ tenure as college ultimate players. 

The ranking marks the twenty-third consecutive year Penn's Perelman School of Medicine was ranked among the top ten medical schools for research.

Yale Law School continued its more than three-decade-long streak atop the ranking. Stanford Law School and Harvard Law School occupied the second and third spots, respectively. 

Their research contradicts classical ecological models, which argue that mutual interactions create instability, Penn Today reported.

"The University is not ordering students who live in private residences to leave, and we regret any confusion about this," Provost Wendell Pritchett wrote in an email to Penn students on Wednesday morning.

Full-time residential dining workers at all-you-care-to-eat dining halls, who are employed by the University and not Bon Appétit, will continue to receive salary and benefits for the rest of the semester.

Some institutions have implemented mandatory pass/fail grading systems, while others are allowing students to opt-in to pass/fail grading.

Saraf said CAPS will still have clinicians on campus for students who remain local but "heavily suggest" that all students use the remote appointments.

Started by College senior Jonathan Kohan on March 12, the petition argues that many courses do not transfer easily to an online environment and that some professors have little experience teaching online.