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Joe Biden announces Bucks County, Pennsylvania campaign stop on Saturday
Both Biden and Trump have made a number of visits to Pennsylvania in recent weeks in an effort to secure the commonwealth’s 20 electoral votes.
Photo Essay | Tired of working at home? Check out these 15 outdoor study spots on campus.
Although it may be the end of October, the weather is still perfect for working outside. Grab a sweater, a laptop, and head to these on-campus locations to bring your virtual classes into the real world, while practicing social-distancing guidelines.
Robot salad stations and custom cakes: Acme amenities to check out at Friday's grand opening
The supermarket, which will replace The Fresh Grocer after its closure in March, features a variety of take-out stations including sushi and poke bowl, Asian hot eats, focaccia pizza, and BBQ. The store will operate daily from 6 a.m. to 11 p.m.
Penn’s election experts claim media outlets will responsibly call the presidential race
Penn professor Roger Smith and former presidents of the American Political Science Association argued in a recent op-ed that media networks will not be able to call the 2020 election fairly. But Penn's elections experts who work in the NBC News Decision Desk disagree, calling Smith's claim entirely misinformed.
Annenberg prof. launches lab to study health effects of marketing on marginalized populations
The Health Communications and Equity Lab aims to design "culturally responsive communication interventions to advance the health and well-being" of diverse populations.
Penn Museum holds public vote to choose artifact for Community Spotlight exhibit
The artifact was chosen as part of the Penn Museum's new Community Spotlight project, which invites the public to vote first on a universal theme, and then again on an artifact to represent the chosen theme
Wharton graduates, dean discuss combating racism in first ‘Beyond Business’ lecture
The event featured 2007 Wharton graduate Chris Bennett and 1993 Wharton graduate Josh Kopelman speaking to Wharton Dean Erika James and Wharton Vice Dean of Entrepreneurship and Innovation Karl Ulrich.
Penn’s Lambda Alliance buddy program helps LGBTQ undergrads connect during virtual semester
Lambda Alliance has manually matched eighty students so far in the program and will notify more students of their matches by the end of October.
Two Wharton graduates endow $1.5 million Presidential Professorship in the College
The professorship will be awarded to a scholar in the College of Arts and Sciences, with a preference for a scholar focused on data science.
Penn students use digital platform Gather to imitate in-person office hours
Gather, also known as Gather.town, simulates buildings and classrooms on campus where students, professors, and teaching assistants can interact with one another through personal avatars during office hours.
Penn rises three spots to No. 14 in U.S. News and World Report global university ranking
Penn climbed the rankings from the No. 17 spot in 2020.
Penn students, faculty launch telehealth program to aid Bangladeshi refugee camp
College and Wharton sophomores Henry Le and Ananya Dewan started the Connected Care Initiative, which aims to bring medical care to vulnerable refugee populations through telehealth.
Mental health initiative AfroWellness aims to support African international students
This semester, the AfroWellness initiative is holding events for managing stress and anxiety and discussing issues that have arisen due to the pandemic, like feeling isolated.
Performing arts groups produce prerecorded, virtual content in light of COVID-19 restrictions
In August, the Performing Arts Council and the Platt Performing Arts House announced that students cannot congregate in-person to produce content this semester because campus was still closed.
In Philadelphia, Obama urges Penn community to ‘get to work’ and vote for Biden
The former president ended the day with a ticketed “drive-in rally” outside Citizens Bank Park in South Philadelphia, during which he particularly urged Black men, progressives, and other voters to participate in the election in efforts to oust Trump.
Penn says it can’t give Election Day off, but it’s unclear what state regulations prevent it
Penn cites state regulations for why it cannot change the Academic Calendar without explaining other unforeseen days — such as snow days, and a day off for the 2018 Eagles parade — the University has given off in the past.
Fenjan, Penn’s new Middle East politics journal, launches first issue this semester
Fenjan's editors wrote that their mission is “to give the Penn community a platform to engage with the MENA region—to read about, write about, and reimagine the Middle East for what it is: human."
Amy Gutmann and her husband donate $2 million to Penn Nursing for new scholarship program
The program, which will launch in January 2021, will select and fund 10 Nursing students annually across the undergraduate and graduate degree-levels, Director of Media Relations Ron Ozio wrote in a press release.
New UA Executive Board looks to increase student accessibility and uplift marginalized groups
The UA elected College and Wharton junior Janice Owusu as speaker, Wharton sophomore Carson Sheumaker as secretary, and College and Wharton junior Nikhil Gupta as treasurer.