The changes, which took effect on June 2, come as positive cases of the novel coronavirus have plunged to the lowest level in the city since fall 2020.

All offices, conference rooms, classrooms, and labs are available to use at full capacity, and PennOpen Pass will no longer be used to enter buildings.

The study found that the labor productivity of children who participated in online learning due to COVID-19 school closures decreased. 

Together for West Philadelphia, a health equity nonprofit, gifted $72,000 to the Black Doctors COVID-19 Consortium to provide free COVID-19 tests and vaccines to communities most impacted by the pandemic.

In a joint letter signed by students from 49 other U.S. universities, Penn Chinese intl. students criticized Trump's Presidential Proclamation 10043.

Penn is the fourth Ivy League institution — following Brown, Columbia, and Yale — to require that its employees receive the COVID-19 vaccine.

Penn ranks No. 2 in the world for the most billionaire alumni, according to the 2021 Forbes annual World's Billionaires list. 

The study found that patients with both HIV and hepatitis B had a two-fold increase in primary liver cancer and that treatment of hepatitis B reduced that risk by 58%.

The Black Ivy Time Capsule is a competition that accepts creative work focused on Black life at the eight Ivy League schools.

Rosa Sun completed the project for FNAR 489: Senior Seminar Project (Spring), a required course for fine arts and design students.

The Wharton School received an anonymous $5 million donation in the form of Bitcoin last week, the largest cryptocurrency donation in University history. 

A recent study on the RAPID test developed by a team at Penn Medicine found that it can detect COVID-19 within four minutes.

The University of Pennsylvania Health System is one of the first health systems in the country to require all of its employees to receive a COVID-19 vaccine.

The eight institutions are all planning to resume in-person learning for fall 2021, and are also preparing to potentially implement a number of health and safety measures.

Both the City of Philadelphia and Penn will still require that masks are worn indoors until at least June 11, when the city plans to reevaluate the policy.

Professors and students attributed the largely stable ratings to the resilience of the Penn community and creative measures faculty members took to move their coursework online. 

The updated guidelines remove restrictions on Penn-affiliated travel, allow departments to host visitors on campus, and permit the use of on-campus spaces.