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How to close the Guantánamo Bay detention facility
Torn American flag flying at Guantánamo Bay.

How to close the Guantánamo Bay detention facility

On the 20th anniversary of the arrival of detainees at the U.S. prison, Penn’s Center for Ethics and the Rule of Law releases 13 recommendations on how to shutter the facility.

From Center for Ethics and the Rule of Law

Pre-arrival and gateway testing for the start of the spring semester
COVID-testing tent on campus, a person is being directed by a volunteer which station to go to.

Pre-arrival and gateway testing for the start of the spring semester

Penn Today provides details on COVID-19 testing requirements for students, postdocs, faculty, and staff who are either enrolled in courses this spring or are coming to campus regularly.

Erica K. Brockmeier

Researchers find new potential targets for skin-cancer treatment
Microscopic view of skin tissue cells.

Researchers find new potential targets for skin-cancer treatment

Making up for the genetic mutations of MLL4 in skin cells, one of the most commonly mutated genes across all of human cancers, may keep epithelial cancer from beginning and progressing

Alex Gardner

Climate change and the problem with time
Hand-drawn images of charts and graphs and waves, measuring global rise in temperatures and sea levels.

Climate change and the problem with time

Episode 7 of “In These Times” brings together an oceanographer, a geophysicist, and a historian about the challenges to understanding the Earth’s 4.6 billion year history, and how our actions in the present impact a future we can only imagine.

From Omnia

Penn receives pivotal gift to expand support for first-generation to college and modest-income undergraduates
Penn president Amy Gutmann sits in a lounge with four students.

Penn First Plus was created in 2018 by Penn President Amy Gutmann, with a dedicated space in College Hall, now named the Shleifer Family Penn First Plus Center.

Penn receives pivotal gift to expand support for first-generation to college and modest-income undergraduates

The gift, from Scott and Elena Shleifer, will increase its support and critical resources for students who are in the first generation of their family to attend college and/or from households of modest or limited income.
Family and friends are the invisible workforce in long-term care
Elderly person wearing face mask in their home at a window being cared for by an adult also wearing a face mask.

Family and friends are the invisible workforce in long-term care

Family and friends continue to provide substantial amounts of care in nursing homes, amounting to an invisible workforce, providing more than an extra “shift” of care every week in nursing homes and two “shifts” in assisted living facilities, a new study finds.

From Penn LDI

Catching up with omicron
Microscopic view of numerous particles of SARS-CoV-2 labeled blue emerging from an infected cell.

Particles of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, emerged from a cell infected in a lab. Researchers and clinicians at Penn and around the world have turned their attention to omicron, a recently emerged variant that is sweeping through the population. (Image: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases)

Catching up with omicron

The Perelman School of Medicine’s Frederic Bushman and Susan Weiss share what they and other scientists are learning about the new, dominant variant of SARS-CoV-2.

Katherine Unger Baillie

A virtual day of service
People march waving signs that say "end segregated rules in public schools" and "we demand voting rights now"

Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy continues to inspire, offering opportunities to reflect and engage.

A virtual day of service

Penn’s annual Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Symposium on Social Change will be virtual this year, offering events for adults and children of all ages.

Kristina García