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  • Project Quaker testing program key to a safe campus reopening

    Developed in partnership with Penn Medicine, the program aims to conduct 40,000 COVID-19 tests each week and will support ongoing plans to bring students back to campus this spring.
    a person looking at a robotic pipetting machine on the other side of a glass partition
    A large-scale COVID-19 screening program known as “Project Quaker” is being rolled out across campus. The program relies on saliva-based samples which are processed and analyzed in a newly-established testing facility in Stemmler Hall.

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  • Exposure to air pollution worsens Alzheimer’s disease
    Emissions from a power plant.

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    Exposure to air pollution worsens Alzheimer’s disease

    New research from Penn Medicine finds living in areas with high concentration of air pollution is associated with increased buildup of amyloid and tau proteins in the brains of Alzheimer’s patients, accelerating cognitive decline.

    Sep 9, 2025