Category: Community

  • Stitching, Sewing, Sending Out Hope

    June 16, 2020 Community, Service

    Stitching, Sewing, Sending Out Hope

    Princeton junior Sally Ruybalid has sewn more than 300 masks for local hospitals, businesses and community members since March 30, when she emailed several undergraduate mailing lists offering free fabric masks.

  • Tiger Ethics: Helping Family and Evaluating Risk During COVID

    June 11, 2020 Community

    Tiger Ethics: Helping Family and Evaluating Risk During COVID

    Policymakers, health-care providers, and ordinary citizens are grappling with ethical challenges presented by COVID-19. What are our obligations to others? How do we balance the risks to individuals and society? What’s an ethical response to the virus’s unequal impact on different communities? Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Philosophy and Human Values Elizabeth Harman answers questions on pandemic ethics.

  • Inaugural Equity, Inclusion and COVID-19 conversation investigates xenophobia

    June 9, 2020 Community, Education, Policy

    Inaugural Equity, Inclusion and COVID-19 conversation investigates xenophobia

    Four panelists participated in the inaugural event for the Equity, Inclusion and COVID-19 conversation series, titled “Race in the COVID Era: What America’s History of Racism and Xenophobia Means for Today.” The 90-minute discussion addressed how xenophobia and racial inequities in the United States had been amplified by the pandemic, particularly discrimination against people of Chinese and Asian descent.

  • Greig Metzger ’82 and Little Free Library Locations Answer a New Need

    June 4, 2020 Community, Service

    Greig Metzger ’82 and Little Free Library Locations Answer a New Need

    Since sheltering in place due to COVID-19 began in March, many people who share books through Little Free Library boxes recognized a new opportunity. Some have added canned goods, homemade masks, craft supplies for kids, even toilet paper to their book-sharing boxes. (PHOTO: Greig Metzger ’82 and Heather Butts ’94 at a Little Free Library event in September 2019.)

  • Princeton University Library launches COVID-19 oral history project

    June 2, 2020 Community, Education,

    Princeton University Library launches COVID-19 oral history project

    Princeton University Library is collecting oral histories about the COVID-19 pandemic from students, faculty, staff, and alumni for the University Archives. The COVID-19 & Me: Oral History Project, led by Project Archivist for Student Life Valencia L. Johnson, aims to archive how people in the Princeton community are experiencing the effects of the ongoing crisis.

  • Driving Mantra for David Azen ’80: Everybody Goes to Bed Well Fed

    June 1, 2020 Community, Service

    Driving Mantra for David Azen ’80: Everybody Goes to Bed Well Fed

    Rabbi David Azen ’80 established Fresher Sacramento in 2006 on the simple idea that everybody should be able to go to bed well fed. The nonprofit has expanded its activities during the COVID-19 pandemic, providing healthy food to people who need it most — seniors, the homeless, and folks in neighborhoods called “food deserts” because fresh food is difficult to find.