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Alumna Jessica Vaughn examines workplace space and culture in ICA solo exhibition
Artist standing in gallery in front of an illustration painted on the wall of people running a race

Artist and Weitzman School of Design alumna Jessica Vaughn examines the spaces, architecture, and cultures of the American workplace her first major solo exhibition, now on view at the Institute of Contemporary Art.

Alumna Jessica Vaughn examines workplace space and culture in ICA solo exhibition

Artist and Weitzman School of Design alumna Jessica Vaughn examines the spaces and culture of the American workplace in her first major solo exhibition, now on view at the Institute of Contemporary Art.
The monumental effort to scale up campus COVID-19 testing
Penn students in a large outdoor tent that is a COVID-testing site.

As of mid-March, more than 140,000 saliva-based tests for COVID-19 have been conducted since the start of the spring semester Penn Cares testing program. 

The monumental effort to scale up campus COVID-19 testing

Key facts and figures point to the scale of the Penn Cares testing program and how Project Quaker helped bring students back to campus this spring.

Erica K. Brockmeier

Twitter bots may not be as influential as you think
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Twitter bots may not be as influential as you think

A new study from Annenberg School for Communication finds that verified media accounts are more central in the spread of information on Twitter than bots.

Ashton Yount , From Annenberg School for Communication

Infants experiencing opioid withdrawal more often treated in poorer quality hospitals
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Eileen Lake is the Jessie M. Scott Endowed Term Chair in Nursing and Health Policy, a professor of nursing, and associate director of the Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research at the School of Nursing.

Infants experiencing opioid withdrawal more often treated in poorer quality hospitals

The research from the School of Nursing analyzed information from three datasets accounting for 25% of U.S. births annually.

Michele W. Berger

COVID-19 and women in the workforce
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Homepage image: During Women’s History Month, researchers across the University examine what we know today about how COVID-19 has affected women in the workforce, from education to STEMM fields.

COVID-19 and women in the workforce

Experts across Penn explain how the pandemic has exacerbated gender inequality and challenged female career advancement in the STEMM fields, education, and business.

Michele W. Berger , Kristina García , Dee Patel , Louisa Shepard

How anti-immigrant rhetoric affects health care utilization
Muslim grandparent holding a distressed child.

How anti-immigrant rhetoric affects health care utilization

The dramatic rise in anti-immigrant rhetoric since 2016 was associated with a substantial decline in utilization of health care services by undocumented adults and their children.

From Penn LDI