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First COVID-19 vaccines arrive at Penn Medicine
A person in scrubs sitting in a chair in an auditorium. A person in darker scrubs stands above, with other people walking and moving in the background.

Eric Young (left), an Emergency Department nurse at Pennsylvania Hospital, after receiving the COVID-19 vaccine on Wednesday, Dec. 17. (Image: Dan Burke)

First COVID-19 vaccines arrive at Penn Medicine

By week’s end, the health system expects to receive about 9,275 doses of the Pfizer vaccine for its frontline teams.

From Penn Medicine News

Project Quaker testing program key to a safe campus reopening
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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.

Erica K. Brockmeier

Home health care improves COVID-19 outcomes
A home health aid wearing a face mask uses an oximeter on an elderly patient at home.

Home health care improves COVID-19 outcomes

Survivors of COVID-19 often have health ramifications from their illness and hospital stay, and until now, no data has been available on the outcomes of COVID-19 patients discharged home after hospitalization and their recovery needs.

From Penn Nursing News

The best books for young readers of 2020
Stack of YA books chosen by the Penn GSE team for its best books of 2020 list.

The best books for young readers of 2020

The sixth annual list of books, chosen by Penn GSE’s Humanizing Stories team, highlights stories of love, joy, loss, strength, and resilience.

From Penn GSE

Women and minorities value, perceive, and experience professionalism differently
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Women and minorities value, perceive, and experience professionalism differently

A new Penn Medicine study finds marginalized groups of people value professionalism more—and are more likely to leave a job at an institution due to issues of professionalism—compared to their white, male counterparts.

From Penn Medicine News

Alumni group strives for ‘strength in diversity’
Michael Barrett in profile looking forward with his hand on his chin at left, Patricia Martin at right speaking at a podium.

Michael Barrett and Patricia Martin serve as cochairs of the James Brister Society and as Penn Trustees. (Image: The Pennsylvania Gazette)

Alumni group strives for ‘strength in diversity’

For the alumni volunteer leaders with the James Brister Society, the mission to improve campus for people of color continues.

The Pennsylvania Gazette