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  • Contact tracing: A piece of a multilayered campus public health strategy

    With the goal of mitigating the spread of COVID-19 and supporting the community with health guidance and information, contact tracing is part of Penn’s systemic approach to keeping the campus healthy during the pandemic.
    two people wearing masks talking in front of a tent entrance to a covid testing site
    In addition to their efforts to keep campus safe by identifying contacts of new coronavirus cases, contact tracers from Wellness also work at on-campus testing sites to engage with and provide support to members of the Penn community. 

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  • A world shaped by water and access
    Three people test water below a sand dam.

    Griffin Pitt, right, works with two other student researchers to test the conductivity, total dissolved solids, salinity, and temperature of water below a sand dam in Kenya.

    (Image: Courtesy of Griffin Pitt)

    A world shaped by water and access

    Griffin Pitt’s upbringing made her passionate about water access and pollution, and Penn has given her the opportunity to explore these issues back home in North Carolina and abroad.

    Oct 8, 2025