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Penn Dining spring 2021: Four takeaways
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Penn Dining spring 2021: Four takeaways

As students return to campus, dining services has adopted measures to support new safety and public health protocols at both residential and retail cafés on campus.
The show must go on, even amid a pandemic 
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The show must go on, even amid a pandemic 

Amid pandemic restrictions, student performing arts groups continued to find innovative ways this fall to create new theater, dance, comedy, a capella, and instrumental productions to share on virtual platforms.
Housing and dining protocols and safety standards are in place for spring semester
Cafeteria staff person wearing mask and apron handing food to a student on the other side of the counter who is also wearing a mask with a backpack on

Several dining locations, like this cafe at Class of 1920 Commons, will be open for grab-and-go meals when students return to live on campus for the spring semester. Tisa Scott (right), a unit leader who has worked at Penn for 28 years, assists Debanjan Haldar, a third year student at the Perelman School of Medicine. 

Housing and dining protocols and safety standards are in place for spring semester

With the spring semester fast approaching and protocols and safety standards in place, housing and dining is ready for undergraduate students to return to campus in January.
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

On-campus chemistry
Calais Cronin wears a face mask in a chemistry lab.

Calais Cronin is one of the few students allowed access to a chemistry lab on campus. (Image: Omnia)

On-campus chemistry

After waiting almost two years to join a chemistry lab, Calais Cronin is one of the few students allowed on campus this fall to do research.

From Omnia

Penn senior and May graduate win 2021 Marshall Scholarships
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Penn senior Annah Chollet (left) and May graduate Yareqzy (Yary) Munoz have been named 2021 Marshall Scholars. 

Penn senior and May graduate win 2021 Marshall Scholarships

Senior Annah Chollet and May graduate Yareqzy Munoz have been named 2021 Marshall Scholars. The Marshall Scholarship funds up to three years of study for a graduate degree in any field at an institution in the United Kingdom.
Penn has four new Schwarzman Scholars
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Penn seniors (clockwise from top left) Cristina Pogorevici, Paulina Ruta, Yixi (Cecilia) Wang and 2019 graduate Annie Sun were chosen to receive the Schwarzman Scholarship. 

Penn has four new Schwarzman Scholars

Penn seniors Cristina Pogorevici, Paulina Ruta, and Yixi (Cecilia) Wang and 2019 graduate Annie Sun have received the Schwarzman Scholarship, which funds a one-year master’s degree in global affairs at Tsinghua University in Beijing.