Disillusioned students consider gap semesters if fall courses are held online
University administration said they have no plans to amend the current leave of absence policy for the fall semester.
University administration said they have no plans to amend the current leave of absence policy for the fall semester.
Coronavirus has hit industries ranging from entertainment to retail to academia, leaving students scrambling to navigate an unpredictable job market.
College juniors Annah Chollet and Camilo Duran are among 62 winners selected from a pool of 773 candidates nationwide.
Penn President Amy Gutmann wrote in an email to the Penn community on Monday that the University has established a Recovery Planning Group to determine when students will be able to return to campus.
Coronavirus has hit industries ranging from entertainment to retail to academia, leaving students scrambling to navigate an unpredictable job market.
College juniors Annah Chollet and Camilo Duran are among 62 winners selected from a pool of 773 candidates nationwide.
Over a month after lockdown, West Philadelphia businesses struggle to receive loans and grants – and even they manage to do so, it is often not enough.
Lockdown Letters, founded by six Penn undergraduates and one Cornell student, is an initiative encouraging people to write customized letters of appreciation to healthcare workers.
Work-study students will receive $3,000 for either six-week summer session or $6,000 for both summer sessions.
Here’s how all eight Ivy League universities are using — or not using — their CARES funding.
Although Wharton currently offers a finance major to MBA students, new courses have been created specifically for the quantitative finance major, including classes in data science, asset pricing, and financial engineering.
Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf ordered many construction projects and “nonessential” businesses to immediately shut down, but NCHW construction has been approved to proceed in order to stabilize and weather-proof the site.
Shakira took to Instagram and Twitter on Thursday to share a photo of her certificate of completion for a course taught by Philosophy professor and undergraduate chair Susan Sauvé Meyer.
Penn Dental Medicine has treated approximately 12-20 patients per day, and conducted 40 online consultations.
Fox News host Tucker Carlson blasted Penn for qualifying for federal aid, citing President Amy Gutmann's $3.6 million salary and the University's $14.7 billion endowment.
Gutmann also discussed the process of making major decisions such as asking undergraduates to move off campus and shifting to remote learning. She said that the University has not yet decided when students will be allowed back at Penn.
Authorized personnel from Penn Residential Services wearing masks and gloves will be entering and photographing dorm rooms in all residential buildings.
March 11, 2020 marked a significant change in the lives of the Penn community. Campus transitioned from a place that housed over thousands of diverse, tight-knit communities of people to a desolated, eerie world.
The original order, issued on April 1, mandated that all residents stay home and practice social distancing, and all nonessential businesses shut down until April 30.
Carl June’s lab pioneered T-cell immunotherapy to treat blood cancer, an expensive one-time treatment that has cured terminally ill patients.