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The monumental effort to scale up campus COVID-19 testing
Penn students in a large outdoor tent that is a COVID-testing site.

As of mid-March, more than 140,000 saliva-based tests for COVID-19 have been conducted since the start of the spring semester Penn Cares testing program. 

  • By the Numbers

    • The monumental effort to scale up campus COVID-19 testing

    Key facts and figures point to the scale of the Penn Cares testing program and how Project Quaker helped bring students back to campus this spring.

    Erica K. Brockmeier

    A conversation on the media, truth telling, and social equity
    Office of Social Equity in Zoom meeting for first event

    A conversation on the media, truth telling, and social equity

    For the Office of Social Equity & Community’s inaugural event, a group of panelists—including several renowned experts in the media industry—gathered virtually to discuss the past, present, and future of journalism in the U.S.

    Lauren Hertzler

    A partnership to help fight COVID and develop a STEM career pipeline
    lab tech performing covid tests

    Vanessa Dicks, a Penn Medicine laboratory assistant who was hired through WPSI, prepares a sample to be tested for the SARS-CoV-2 virus.

    A partnership to help fight COVID and develop a STEM career pipeline

    Working with the West Philadelphia Skills Initiative, University City District’s workforce development program, Penn Medicine is creating pathways to science careers for local jobseekers.

    Lauren Ingeno

    Sherisse Laud-Hammond reflects on transformative year as Penn Women’s Center director
    Sherisse Laud-Hammond stands with arms folded, smiling, in her office.

    Sherisse Laud-Hammond, director of Penn’s Women Center.

    Sherisse Laud-Hammond reflects on transformative year as Penn Women’s Center director

    In 2020, SP2 alum Sherisse Laud-Hammond was named the new director of the Penn Women’s Center, a position in which she is the first Black woman and woman of color to serve.

    From the School of Social Policy & Practice

    The unbridled brilliance of Julian Abele
    julian abele and his architecture class

    The unbridled brilliance of Julian Abele

    The 1902 graduate of the architecture program is finally starting to receive credit for his vast and iconic portfolio, which includes the central branch of the Free Library, Penn’s President’s House, Harvard’s flagship library, and more than 30 spaces and places on Duke’s campus.
    Fostering the next generation of Black philosophers at Penn
    ben baker sitting on the steps looking up

    Fostering the next generation of Black philosophers at Penn

    In the past decade, the department has become a hub for race theory and a welcoming environment for a diverse group of young academics, mentored by those who have paved the way before them.

    Michele W. Berger

    When the message matters, use science to craft it
    Close-up of a smiling person in a black V-neck shirt, standing outside near marble pillars.

    Jessica Fishman, director of the Message Effects Lab, is a faculty research associate with appointments at the Annenberg School for Communication and in the Department of Psychiatry at the Perelman School of Medicine. (Image: Courtesy of Annenberg School for Communication)

    When the message matters, use science to craft it

    An interdisciplinary initiative called the Message Effects Lab aims to understand, tap into, and develop communication around what motivates specific behaviors for specific populations. Its first projects center around COVID-19 testing and vaccines.

    Michele W. Berger

    Artist Maya Lin’s large-scale installation will be on display in Penn Medicine’s new Pavilion
    Rendering of Maya Lin’s art installation, a large-scale treelike sculpture with branches reaching upwards through atrium open ceiling.

    Newly commissioned artwork by Maya Lin will soon be displayed in the Penn Pavilion. Pictured, artist rendition tentatively titled “DNA Tree of Life” by Maya Lin. (Image: Courtesy of Maya Lin Studio)

    Artist Maya Lin’s large-scale installation will be on display in Penn Medicine’s new Pavilion

    The new installation from the renowned artist and designer embodies the health system’s goal of creating calming, healing environments for patients.