Category: Community
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June 16, 2020 Community, Health Care, Podcasts
Fortifying the Frontlines: A Pop-Up Nonprofit Pays Vulnerable Workers to Feed Hospital Staff
Natalie Guo ’12 took two problems — hungry healthcare professionals and unemployed restaurant employees — and created one solution: Off Their Plate, a donation-funded program paying chefs and shift workers to provide meals to health care staff.
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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.
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June 11, 2020 Community, Health Care, Podcasts
‘We Roar’: Céline Gounder, infectious diseases specialist, to answer COVID-19 questions live on Facebook
Céline Gounder ’97, an infectious diseases specialist and host and producer of the “EPIDEMIC” podcast, will join Princeton University’s “We Roar” podcast at 11 a.m. on Friday, June 12, for a Facebook Live event.
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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.
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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.
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June 5, 2020 Community, Health Care
Behavior Scientist Katy Milkman ’04 On Small Ways to Keep COVID at Bay
For Katy Milkman ’04, a professor at Penn’s Wharton School, the virus’s reliance on humans’ social habits opens the door for a behavioral scientist like her to help lessen the toll of the pandemic.
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June 5, 2020 Community, Podcasts
Empowering Ideas: A Philosopher Talks About Bad Hope, Good Hope and Despair
Professor Andrew Chignell of the University Center for Human Values teases out a pathway to hopeful engagement in pessimistic times.
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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.)
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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.
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June 2, 2020 Arts/Cultural, Community, Podcasts
Innovating an Institution: TIME Editor-in-Chief Considers COVID-19’s Impact on Journalism
From legacy media to community newspapers, journalism faces pressure on several fronts as it reports on one of the most important stories of our lifetime — a global pandemic and economic crisis that also threaten the news business. Edward Felsenthal ’88 offers his take on what news media must do to continue its essential work.
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June 1, 2020 Community, Health Care, Research
Nabarun Dasgupta ’00 Uses Mobile Data to Study Social Distancing Patterns
Epidemiologist Nabarun Dasgupta ’00 and his team at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill set out to examine social-distancing patterns by studying location data from 65 million mobile devices to isolate key factors, such as limited access to doctors, public parks and recreation facilities, and food insecurity.
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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.