Category: Education

  • Making meaning of the pandemic ‘through the lens of literature’

    May 15, 2020 Arts/Cultural, Education

    Making meaning of the pandemic ‘through the lens of literature’

    Weeks before the coronavirus crisis hit, the 99 Princeton undergraduates in the spring course “Literature and Medicine” were already immersed in the many ways storytelling shapes the way we understand and experience illness, disease and health. Now, from their laptops, scattered around the world, the students are discovering that literary texts are not only keeping them connected to one another, but also helping them grapple with their own experiences during the pandemic.

  • Alumni rally to support students who’ve lost summer internships to COVID-19

    May 15, 2020 Education, Service

    Alumni rally to support students who’ve lost summer internships to COVID-19

    The COVID-19 pandemic not only disrupted the spring semester, causing Princeton and most other universities to send students home and shift to remote teaching, but it also cost many students their summer internships. Alumni have always played a critical role in assisting Princeton undergraduate and graduate students in their career exploration, and that relationship has taken on increased importance during the COVID-19 shutdown.

  • Go ahead, ask a chemistry grad

    May 13, 2020 Education

    Go ahead, ask a chemistry grad

    Bored with staying at home and eager to talk shop, 12 chemists offer half-hour info and Q&A sessions to high schoolers on what it’s like to be a chemistry grad student. Chem-STEM has worked with five local high schools so far.

  • Essential Workers Keep Princeton Running During COVID-19

    May 13, 2020 Education

    Essential Workers Keep Princeton Running During COVID-19

    Despite the eerie quiet that now envelops Princeton’s campus, about 750 staff, faculty, and graduate students continue to report for work. Many who fall into this category are unionized hourly workers — including employees working in dining, building, and mail services — and navigating the new normal during the coronavirus pandemic has required new ways of doing business.

  • Daniel Te ’21 Initiates Acts of Kindness

    May 11, 2020 Education, Service

    Daniel Te ’21 Initiates Acts of Kindness

    Following his first year at Princeton, junior Daniel Te felt he hadn’t connected to as many classmates as he had hoped, so he decided on a different course of action. Fondly remembering the moments in which classmates were especially kind to him, he decided to pay that kindness forward by offering to cheer on his classmates during finals.

  • Power of the Pivot: Bogle Fellows Book Exchange

    May 6, 2020 Community, Education, Service

    Power of the Pivot: Bogle Fellows Book Exchange

    When COVID-19 made the usual programming for new Bogle Fellows impossible, Pace Center Program Coordinator Kira O’Brien turned to a low-tech resource — books — to bring new Fellows together. She developed a book exchange in order to facilitate group cohesion in this time of social distancing, noting how for her, exchanging books is “a way to engage someone in a conversation, share a perspective, and invite someone to grapple with something alongside you.”

  • We persisted: Teaching American cultural history in the pandemic

    April 30, 2020 Arts/Cultural, Education

    We persisted: Teaching American cultural history in the pandemic

    Rhae Lynn Barnes, an assistant professor of history, is using her expertise in digital humanities to help other educators. She launched “The Show Must Go On: American Culture in Times of Crisis,” a free curriculum of lesson plans and filmed mini-lectures by leading scholars. Her goal, she said, is to help reduce the workload of millions of teachers and professors on the frontlines of public education during the COVID-19 disruptions.