Writing in The New York Times on behalf of six other leaders of large academic health systems, Perelman School of Medicine Dean Larry Jameson pleaded for national leadership to resist temptations to lift social restrictions for economic reasons.
The University announced Regular Decision results for the Class of 2024, which will be the 268th class. A total of 3,404 students have been offered admission out of 42,205 applicants.
Construction workers are expediting the completion of 120 patient rooms by mid-April to accommodate needs caused by the COVID-19 epidemic. “What these crews are doing—working day and night just like our doctors, nurses, and staff caring for patients—is herculean,” says Kevin B. Mahoney, CEO of the University of Pennsylvania Health System.
Penn Medicine staff has been mobilized to set up two drive- and walk-through open-space clinics to screen for COVID-19. One location operates in a parking lot at the corner of 41st and Market streets, while the other is in Radnor Townships.
The University’s Residential & Hospitality Services and Division of Business Services worked tirelessly to execute a move-out effort that typically takes months. Approximately 500 students—many of whom are international students who can’t return home due to travel bans—will remain on campus.
A plan put in place 12 years ago, the Mission Continuity Program, shaped by all the schools and centers, was developed to efficiently operate the University in a time of disruption. This plan has been a blueprint for operations management since the onset of the COVID-19 outbreak.
Telemedicine has proven to be a critical tool during the COVID-19 pandemic. Clinicians at the medical, dental, and veterinary schools are all making use of this technology to meet needs of new patients and ensure continuing care while staying safe.
Staff from the Center for Teaching and Learning and the Penn Online Learning Initiative assisted in the University-wide effort to resume spring-semester classes online, after spring break was extended to March 23.
Penn scientists are leveraging decades worth of expertise to learn from and address the threats posed by SARS-COV-2. For virologist Susan Weiss, coronaviruses have been a consistent focus of her career for 40 years.
Residential Services, Student Registration and Financial Services, Student Intervention Services, Penn First Plus, Penn Global, and College Houses and Academic Services together set up resources to assist students with extreme financial need or in special circumstances as international students.
A new course co-taught by the Wharton School Dean Geoffrey Garrett will address the real-time global business and financial uncertainty resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic. The six-week, half-credit course is open to all degree-seeking University students virtually.
PIK Professor Dorothy Roberts was quoted in NBC News about the fear-based spread of racial pseudoscience during the pandemic. “These myths have a track record not just of shaping attitudes but of shaping policy and practice in public and private spaces, in hospitals and in schools, in workplaces, too,” she said.
Greg Van Roten, a former offensive lineman on the Penn football team from 2008-11 and graduate of the Wharton School, signed a three-year contract with the New York Jets.
New research out of the School of Dental Medicine demonstrates how bacteria can grow on surfaces in the form of biofilm, in patterns reminiscent of how humans settle villages and cities. The knowledge moves forward the ability to develop new therapeutics designed to kill the biofilms and strategies to promote the growth of beneficial microbes.
On the frontlines of the fight against pancreatic cancer, Penn researchers are finding new ways to create therapies that improve quality of life for patients as well as detect the disease faster and by less-invasive means.
In the first episode of the “Understand This …” podcast series, focusing on interdisciplinary approaches to solving problems, Professor of Education Sigal Ben-Porath and Professor of History Sophie Rosenfeld explore how people can collectively agree on shared facts in the age of “fake news.”
For International Women’s Day, The New York Times published an op-ed co-authored by Professor of Russian and East European Studies Kristen Ghodsee about unpaid labor carried out by women—particularly care work. Alongside her co-author, they calculated the amount women would have made last year if they earned minimum wage for their unpaid work.