Project Quaker News Today

Share This The FINANCIAL -- For the past two weeks, the second floor of the Pottruck Health & Fitness Center, the Gimbel Gymnasium has been bustling—not with free-throw practice or pick-up basketball games, but with Penn faculty, staff, postdocs, and students navigating the repurposed space to receive their COVID-19 vaccines, University of Pennsylvania notes. Just over one year since COVID-19’s impacts were first felt across campus, Penn is now offering one of the greatest tools in the ...

A ‘shot’ at ending the pandemic The Penn Cares COVID-19 Vaccine Clinic is offering one of the greatest tools in the fight against the pandemic to faculty, staff, postdocs, and students. Members of the Penn community coming to the Gimble Gymnasium on the first day it opened on April 14. The site was able to vaccinate more than 850 eligible faculty, staff, and postdocs during its first three days of operation before the site open...

From PPE to lab safety, supporting the campus community is a full-time job The Environmental Health and Radiation Safety office plays an important role in keeping Penn safe and healthy. Now, during the COVID-19 crisis, the office has stepped up to support the resumption of on-campus activities. As researchers across campus, including postdoc Richard Barrett (above) continue to safely resume on-campus activities, Penn’s Environme...

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. A large-scale COVID-19 screening program known as “Project Quaker” is being rolled out across campus. The program relies on saliva-based samples which are processed and analyzed in a new...