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Career Services in the pandemic: ‘We’re all in this together’

Career Services moves online to help students navigate employment, internships, and even mock interviews during uncertain times.

Liz Satter of the women's basketball team claps for her teammates from the bench during a game against Notre Dame.

The little moments aren’t so little

Liz Satter, a senior forward on the women’s basketball team, reflects on her four years as a student-athlete at Penn.

Glass display case of ney flutes, part of Juan Castrillón’s exhibit.

Juan Castrillón’s ‘Re-Covering the Ney Collection’

Juan Castrillón, a Ph.D. candidate in ethnomusicology, had pre-planned an online version of his exhibit “Re-Covering the Ney Collection,” which is proving valuable now that museumgoers are staying home.

Penn labs get creative to stay productive, connected

In the face of a pandemic that has shuttered most physical laboratories across campus, researchers have shifted gears, maintaining work and social ties through grant- and manuscript-writing, virtual journal clubs, online coffee breaks, and more.

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The optimal immune repertoire for bacteria

Researchers develop a physical model that describes the optimal amount of ‘memory’ of prior infections that bacteria should have in order to efficiently mount a successful immune response.

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Commonly used blood pressure meds may affect outcomes on COVID-19

Penn Medicine launches an international trial to study whether the medications are beneficial or harmful in the treatment of hospitalized patients.

Penn Dental Medicine presses on with emergency care

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Penn Dental Medicine has been able to offer emergency services to established patients with the help of teledentistry.

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New changes for Open Enrollment for 2020-21

There are new changes for the Open Enrollment 2020-21 plan year. Sue Sproat, executive director of benefits in the Division of Human Resources, outlines the changes to benefits for eligible Penn employees.

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What the COVID-19 curve can teach us about climate change

Like the person-to-person transmission of coronavirus, climate change is happening in smaller increments that can be easy to ignore until the cumulative effects can be measured.

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Measuring the risk among clinicians who intubate patients with COVID-19

Penn launches a national component of global registry to track exposures and outcomes among providers who perform airway management procedures.

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