The Philadelphia Department of Public Health is testing air samples for toxic pollution and recommended that those with heart or lung problems avoid exerting themselves in areas with smoke.

While the overall case count remains low, thousands of students — including 2,856 undergraduates in the College of Arts and Sciences — are at risk of receiving noncompliance red PennOpen Passes on Nov. 16 due to testing noncompliance.

Nearly 77% of eligible Penn students voted in the presidential election — a 9.2 percentage point increase from the 2016 election and a 23.1 percentage point increase from the 2018 midterm election.

A Penn professor collaborated with Greek researchers during the summer of 2020 to evaluate the effectiveness of Eva, a machine learning tool designed to track data on travelers’ COVID-19 screening results.

Members of Penn’s Program on Opinion Research and Election Studies helped the NBC News Decision Desk call races on Election Day.

The grant will be used to improve infrastructure for the cemetery, including the re-pavement of roads and refurbishment of the cemetery’s gates.

Penn administrators announced late last week that the University will halt commitments to private equity vehicles dedicated to investments in fossil fuel production.

His research in the summit focuses on photophoretic levitation, a type of light-powered flight.

The Young Explorer Award was launched in February 2021, and is presented jointly by the NOMIS Foundation and Science Magazine.

The Triage Tool was delivered through a chat box on the Penn Medicine website and patient portal.

The City of Philadelphia announced that the Health Department is working with vaccine providers to get children vaccinated in the same facilities as adults.

Columbia, Cornell, and Brown universities received bomb threats over the weekend, and Yale University received one on Friday, forcing campus evacuations of several buildings. 

The initiative was led by GAPSA's Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, Access, and Leadership Council and took place in Houston Hall on Nov. 5 and 6. 

The study finds many racial and ethnic groups still remain underrepresented in surgical faculty, which correlates with an underrepresentation in medical students.

The award honors innovators in three categories: PreK-12 Education, Higher Education, and Learning Science Research, who have dedicated themselves to improving education and students’ lives. 

The festival was organized by students from Penn and Swarthmore College who belong to C4, a college-level branch of Chester Residents Concerned for Quality Living.

The study found that working irregular hours can harm your metabolism and lead to weight gain and diabetes.