Category: Community

  • App Helps Put the Social Into Social Distancing

    April 23, 2020 Community, Technology

    App Helps Put the Social Into Social Distancing

    Remaining connected to friends, classmates and family in the age of social distancing can cause a strain on mental health, especially for college students who may already be suffering from other mental health issues such as loneliness and depression. An app can help with that.

  • Mount Family Digs In to Provide Healthy Food

    April 22, 2020 Community,

    Mount Family Digs In to Provide Healthy Food

    The bright apple sign still beckons visitors to Terhune Orchards, but the current pandemic reality has transformed the farm experience, putting partners Reuwai Mount Hanewald ’94, Tannwen Mount ’98, Gary Mount ’66 and their families on the frontlines from a different angle: keeping people healthy with nutritious food.

  • Hope Is Blooming in Yonkers

    April 15, 2020 Community

    Hope Is Blooming in Yonkers

    The Untermyer Gardens Conservancy, a 43-acre public garden in Yonkers, New York, may be closed due to the pandemic, but its beautiful spring daffodil blooms are bringing joy beyond its gates.

  • Meals for Heroes Feeds NYC’s Healthcare Workers

    April 14, 2020 Community, Service

    Meals for Heroes Feeds NYC’s Healthcare Workers

    Five days into the COVID-19 quarantine in New York City, Anna Azvolinsky *09 was decluttering a closet when she uncovered a small supply of forgotten N95 masks. Knowing that the masks were critical for those on the frontline, she learned that Mt. Sinai hospital had the greatest need before she discovered there was another way she could help during the crisis.

  • Stacey Vanek Smith ’99 records economics podcast from DIY soundbooth

    April 10, 2020 Community

    Stacey Vanek Smith ’99 records economics podcast from DIY soundbooth

    At a time when more than 16 million Americans filed for unemployment and the financial markets shuddered, Stacey Vanek Smith ’99 has continued recording her Planet Money podcast from her Brooklyn apartment. “We’re an economics podcast and if we don’t broadcast now, then why do we exist?” she said.

  • Alumni create online directory to support local businesses

    March 30, 2020 Community

    Alumni create online directory to support local businesses

    Maggie Zhang ’16 and Daniel He ’16 created Local for Later, an online directory to promote local businesses through gift cards. “Whether it’s buying a gift card, donating to a fundraiser, or sharing a story, we can all do our part to support our local businesses,” they wrote on their site, which has grown to include 11 U.S. cities.