College sophomore Zhexuan Huang is stuck in his coronavirus-stricken hometown. He has not been able to leave his apartment, let alone the city of Wuhan, for weeks and must take a leave of absence from Penn this semester. 

The Wistar Institute announced its partnership with Inovio Pharmaceuticals on Jan. 23 to accelerate vaccine development for the recent coronavirus outbreak. 

On Jan. 22, Penn for Pete announced its new co-coordinators, Wharton sophomore Manoj Simha and first-year Engineering graduate student David Yastremsky. The group's previous leaders were College junior Sam Kaufmann and College junior Sarah Jones, who left to join Penn for Warren.

To fill the single UA Nursing seat, which was uncontested last spring, the NEC will hold a special election this week. 

This semester, Penn Leads the Vote will put most of its efforts into hosting voter registration drives and educational events for the presidential primaries on April 28. The group is optimistic about this year's student voter turnout, because on-campus voting has increased 400% since 2014. 

The scholarship grants one year of graduate study at University of Cambridge in England and is awarded annually to only fifteen students in the U.S. for “outstanding academic achievement” in science, mathematics, and engineering.

Director of the Penn Women’s Center Sherisse Laud-Hammond said that the number of events, meetings, classes, and tours held at PWC has increased from 292 to 382 in the past year. 

The announcement comes over a year after the University Council steering committee rejected Fossil Free Penn’s proposal to divest from coal and tar sands. 

The update will also provide students with a predicted date of when they will run out of meal swipes and dining dollars, Engineering sophomore and Penn Mobile team member Justin Lieb said.

The new study contradicts conventional wisdom that end-of-life care in the ICU is a poor experience for dying patients than care in other departments, according to Penn Medicine News.

Director of PennApps and College junior Claudia Haddad said the group decided to try something new this semester to bring the PennApps experience to a younger, more entry-level audience.

This year, sororities saw an approximately 8.3% decrease in registered students, with only approximately 550 registered for rush, according to the Office of Fraternity and Sorority Life. 

Before coming to Penn, Rovinsky-Mayer worked in the Office of Equality and Diversity at Drexel University as the Title IX Coordinator for eleven years.

Chief Wellness Officer Benoit Dubé also said other students studying in Southeast Asia have chosen to return to Penn.

Penn Women's Center Director Sherisse Laud-Hammond said that the number of free breast pump attachment kits distributed by Penn Women’s Center through their Pump-Kit Giveaway Program has also nearly tripled in the past three years.

The house was founded by Cathy Barlow as a residency program for Black students at Penn. Since its 1972 founding, Du Bois has never given housing priority to Black students.

Penn's Stuart Weitzman School of Design will offer a new degree program this fall that combines robotics and architectural design. The new program is known as Master of Science in Design: Robotics and Autonomous Systems (MSD-RAS), and it is one of the few architectural programs in the nation to use robots and artificial intelligence in design.