Brandon Brodwater

As students continue to host in-person gatherings in off- and on-campus locations, Penn Police Department officers responding to the parties are voicing concerns over contracting the virus while on the job.

Penn's Division of Public Safety responded to a number of crimes between Feb. 13 and Feb. 19 including bike theft, retail theft, and robberies. 

Smokey Joe’s, which normally welcomes throngs of Penn students in a night, has reopened with tighter restrictions in place after enduring nearly a week of temporary forced closure.

The Daily Pennsylvanian Analytics team analyzed more than 990 crimes reported to the Division of Public Safety between September 2019 and November 2020.

Students and University employees expressed frustration with campus mailrooms' recent delays in package delivery. 

Students said they were excited to finally come to campus, but expressed concerns about the clarity and effectiveness of Penn's Quiet Period COVID-19 guidelines. 

Penn Medicine's frontline health workers and researchers have begun receiving COVID-19 vaccinations — including the Penn scientists whose findings on mRNA technology laid the groundwork for the vaccines to be developed.

Philadelphia Councilmember Kendra Brooks spoke to Penn nursing students on Monday about the importance of civic engagement. 

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.

Harker said his prediction depends on a sustained decline in the rate of new infections, the availability of a vaccine by the end of 2021, and an additional trillion-dollar stimulus package.