Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring summer program moves online due to coronavirus
PURM will notify students over the next several weeks beginning April 13 on whether they have been matched with a professor to conduct research over the summer.
PURM will notify students over the next several weeks beginning April 13 on whether they have been matched with a professor to conduct research over the summer.
Penn students on dining plans will now receive refunds for their remaining spring semester meal plan balance, and departed College House residents will receive pro-rated reimbursements in May on their student billing accounts.
Provost Wendell Pritchett announced the change and the suspension of the 2019-2020 Dean's List in a Thursday afternoon email to Penn undergraduates.
2014 College graduate Dylan Hansen-Fliedner connected with hundreds of Penn students and faculty online to discuss his experience editing the hit Netflix documentary series.
Penn students on dining plans will now receive refunds for their remaining spring semester meal plan balance, and departed College House residents will receive pro-rated reimbursements in May on their student billing accounts.
Provost Wendell Pritchett announced the change and the suspension of the 2019-2020 Dean's List in a Thursday afternoon email to Penn undergraduates.
Some professors say they do not use the tracking feature to take graded attendance but rather to check in on students who are not regularly viewing the lectures.
Currently, Penn allows students to change their courses to pass/fail grading until April 13, the earliest opt-in pass/fail deadline in the Ivy League by more than two weeks.
Biden, a former Penn Presidential Professor of Practice, now has a clear path to the nomination and will face Trump, a 1968 Wharton graduate, in November's general election.
Penn Abroad said it is currently too early to make a final decision on the status of fall study abroad programs, but that students should find out if they are cancelled by May 15.
By limiting the amount of time women spend in healthcare facilities before and after delivery, the new policies can decrease women's exposure to coronavirus.
Penn Medicine will use the donation to establish the COVID-19 Immunology Defense Fund to focus on testing healthcare workers for immunity, developing a vaccine, and testing other drugs' effectiveness in fighting the virus.
Yale's decision reverses the University's previous opt-in Credit/D/Fail policy, which prompted student protests in favor of a universal pass system.
CAPS Senior Clinical Director Michal Saraf said CAPS will continue its Let’s Talk program and Behavioral Health Consultant program virtually through confidential video and phone calls.
Penn Abroad anticipates there will be travel restrictions that affect fall semester study abroad programs. Currently, multiple countries have implemented restrictions on incoming travelers from the United States.
The team known as Project Shields assembles 400 face shields a day at the Pennovation Center located in the Lower Schuylkill area, which are then delivered to the University of Pennsylvania Health System.
Are you a student in the College looking to get more bang for your buck in your fall 2020 course load? Here's a list of all the classes next semester that will let you "double count."
The forced quarantines prompted confusion and uncertainty, causing students to worry about how they would keep up with their schoolwork and maintain their health.
The clinical trials will begin next week and will attempt to determine if the drug can treat already infected people or help prevent infection altogether.
After tumultuous evictions from campus amid the pandemic, select students managed to stay in their University housing. Now, Penn is asking students to relocate to other dorms in an effort to consolidate resources.