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Fauci speaks at Penn Medicine event, addresses youth mental health and COVID-19 vaccines

Penn mandates all faculty, staff must be fully vaccinated by August

Penn employees COVID-19 vaccine

Penn Medicine develops an 'electronic nose' to sniff out cancer

Penn Medicine 'electronic nose'

Pennsylvania scientist helps blind man regain partial vision

Blindness Pennsylvania Treatment

Penn study finds eviction moratoriums slowed the spread of COVID-19

Eviction Moratorium slowed spread

Penn, Drexel to require students receive COVID-19 vaccine for fall semester

Penn Drexel COVID-19 vaccines

Philly businesses commit to increase diversity, invest in Black-owned suppliers

Philadelphia Businesses

Penn Museum will repatriate human skulls once used to support white supremacist theories

Penn Museum Skulls

Penn's graduate education program named best in the nation by U.S. News

U.S. News Best Graduate Schools

Cancer drugs show promise in blocking hormones that fuel COVID-19 progression

COVID-19 Androgen Hormones

Wharton student's new website, FindAShot, hopes to ease manic search for COVID-19 vaccine appointments

FindAShot COVID-19 Vaccine

Children's Health

Antibodies from childhood colds don't offer protection against COVID-19, Penn study finds

Common Cold COVID-19

Penn athletics can partially resume training next month, school says

penn athletics reopening

Penn professor retires amid fallout from Nazi salute given during Zoom session

Penn Schuyler Retires

Penn physicists get $2 million grant to develop portable COVID-19 detector

Penn professor under fire for giving Nazi salute during virtual conference

Penn Schuyler Nazi

Penn professor's human steaks artwork generates controversy abroad, which didn't happen while here in Philly

University of Pennsylvania

Penn student applauded for breakout novel published while attending college

penn student debut novel

Penn plans stunning West Philly lab for energy science and technology

Penn Energy One

Penn to donate $100 million to the School District of Philadelphia for environmental repairs such as asbestos

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Telemedicine can reduce wait times for highly-sought dermatology visits

Dermatologist Consult Telehealth

Penn's Ezekiel Emanuel tapped to help guide Biden's COVID-19 response

Zeke Emanuel Biden's COVID-19 panel

New Acme supermarket opens in University City on Friday

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Wasp venom may help solve the problem of drug-resistant infections

Wasp Venom Penn

These secret safety panels will pick the COVID-19 vaccine winners

COVID-19 vaccine safety panel

Dogs could help destroy spotted lanternfly egg masses across Pennsylvania, study says

upenn spotted lanternflies study dogs

For colleges, online mental health services are a 'silver lining' of COVID-19 crisis

COVID-19 Mental Health Services

Penn, Swarthmore College again represent region on U.S. News & World Report's best colleges list

Penn Swarthmore rankings

Penn researchers advance potential cure for type 1 diabetes

Penn Diabetes Islet

Cell phone location data could guide responses to future COVID-19 outbreaks

Work from home during COVID

Drexel University switches to only online classes for fall quarter

Drexel University fall semester

Penn shifts to virtual classes for fall semester, slashes tuition

penn students online school

Local elected officials pay tribute to civil rights leader, U.S. Rep. John Lewis

Penn tearing down statue of slavery advocate George Whitefield

penn whitefield statue

John Legend sings with Penn students in surprise graduation performance

Legend Penn Perfomance sing

Penn model forecasts another 350,000 COVID-19 deaths by July – if every state immediately reopens

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Health Hero Match app co-developed by Penn student wins international hackathon

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Penn Vet studying whether dogs can detect COVID-19 by scent

Penn Vet COVID-19

Shakira completes ancient philosophy course at Penn while social distancing

Penn Medicine doctor co-hosting coronavirus podcast 'Making the Call'

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Penn dedicates $4 million to support employees affected by coronavirus shutdowns

UPenn employee assistance coronaviurs

Penn microbiologist explains why some coronaviruses are more deadly than others

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