Institution
University of Pennsylvania
PennPAPrivate R1UPennAlert~28,000 students
- Cases
- 24
- Alerts
- 45
- Verbatim
- 91%
- Span
- 2024–2026
Official alert policy
How Penn says it will alert: when and how UPennAlert activates, summarized, quoted, and analyzed.
Case log
Every documented incident
24 cases · 41 of 45 alert messages verbatim-confirmed
2026
- armed person: 2026-09-14Person with a weapon on the 4000 block of Baltimoreemergency notificationverbatim
- shooting: 2026-04-25Police-activity alert after a shooting at 40th and Sansomemergency notification1 injuredverbatim
- shooting: 2026-04-06Assault with a firearm on the 4000 block of Marketemergency notificationverbatim
- robbery: 2026-03-14Robbery without a weapon on the 3500 block of Marketemergency notificationverbatim
- shots fired: 2026-03-08Report of gunshots at 40th and Marketemergency notificationverbatim
- winter storm: 2026-02-22Normal operations suspended the next day for inclement weatheradvisoryverbatim
- winter storm: 2026-01-26Normal operations suspended for Tuesday winter weatheradvisoryverbatim
- winter storm: 2026-01-25Normal operations suspended for Monday winter weatheradvisoryverbatim
- shots fired: 2026-01-06Shots fired on the 4300 block of Marketemergency notificationverbatim
2025
- infrastructure failure: 2025-12-14Off-campus steam plant explosion cuts heat and hot water to all campus buildingsadvisoryverbatim
- shots fired: 2025-11-11Gunshots reported at 4000 Walnut Streetemergency notificationverbatim
- robbery: 2025-10-12Robbery without a weapon on the 4000 block of Walnutemergency notificationverbatim
- it outage: 2025-07-11Statewide 9-1-1 outage; call PennComm in the patrol zoneemergency notificationverbatim
- armed person: 2025-06-28Person with a weapon on the 4200 block of Ludlowemergency notificationverbatim
- assault: 2025-06-26Assault on the 3400 block of Market Streetemergency notificationverbatim
- robbery: 2025-06-14Robbery without a weapon on the 4000 block of Baltimoreemergency notificationverbatim
- robbery: 2025-03-31Robbery with a weapon on Market Streetemergency notificationverbatim
2024
- assault: 2024-11-06Assault reported on Walnut Street with all-clearemergency notificationverbatim
- civil unrest: 2024-10-14Scheduled demonstration restricting traffic at Walnutemergency notificationverbatim
- civil unrest: 2024-10-07Scheduled demonstration moving through University Cityemergency notificationverbatim
- robbery: 2024-10-06Robbery without a weapon on Walnut Streetemergency notificationverbatim
- robbery: 2024-09-19Attempted robbery with a weapon on Chestnut Streetemergency notificationverbatim
- police activity: 2024-09-19'Shots fired' alert traced to a car running over bike-lane delineatorsemergency notificationverbatim
- civil unrest: 2024-05-10Pre-dawn sweep clears College Green encampment; 33 arrestedadvisoryverbatim
By incident type