The virtual town hall, titled “From Campus Access to Testing and Vaccination: What to Expect for Penn’s COVID-era Spring Semester,” discussed the future of the COVID-19 vaccine, Penn’s plans for opening campus in the spring, and COVID-19 testing.

Wolf said he is currently experiencing no symptoms but is following Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Department of Health guidelines. 

One CIS professor described the loss of TAs as a “major headache” for the CIS department, predicting more crowded office hours.

Gong’s debut novel “These Violent Delights” is a retelling of Shakespear’s “Romeo and Juliet” set in Shanghai in the 1920s.

For just the third time this semester, the positivity rate climbed above 2% for the week ending on Dec. 5. Penn recorded its highest weekly case count at 107.

After an outbreak inside city jails caused at least 150 infections, Philadelphia's Department of Prisons adopted shelter-in-place measures and indefinitely canceled prisoner transports to court dates, again prompting concern from prisoners-rights advocates.

During phone banking events, held every Monday evening over Zoom for the past two months, Penn Dems members urge eligible Georgia voters to vote blue.

Reflecting back on the positive experiences of the unprecedented semester, professors nevertheless said they hoped to return to teaching in person as soon as possible.

The Bensalem Police Department plans to bring on two social workers for a two-year pilot program. The program will direct some people towards social services and away from the criminal justice system and reduce the time police spend on social service-related calls. 

Following the university's 2018 scandal, Temple University will pay a $700,000 settlement to the U.S. Department of Education for the misreporting of its business school's data that falsely boosted its place in the annual U.S. News and World Report rankings. 

Kaufman’s research played a major role in the development of a treatment for hereditary cancer caused by BRCA. The treatment uses PARP inhibitors, which prevent the body from repairing cancerous cells damaged by chemotherapy.

Across the country, positive cases for the virus have increased following travel and visitations made in the week after Thanksgiving. 

The course will cover topics including voting rights, mail-in ballots, voter registration, felon disenfranchisement, and redistricting.

Walke has served as the Chief of the Division of the Division of Geriatric Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine since 2018. Previously, she served on the faculty of Yale University for fifteen years.

As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, tens of thousands of students who were unable to leave their home countries deferred their admission or called off their studies completely.

The panel, called “Coronavirus Vaccine: Addressing the Challenges in Distribution and Uptake,” took place virtually on Friday and was hosted by Penn’s Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics. 

“Fox News and the Associated Press made a terrible call when they called Arizona,” John Lapinski said. “Had they gotten that call wrong, America would have spiraled.”