Category: Featured
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April 21, 2020 Education,
Sharon Carver â82 has the answers for at-home preschool education
Sharon Carver â82, director of Carnegie Mellon Universityâs Childrenâs School, is helping the parents of preschool and kindergarten children by sharing online resources for at-home learning.
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April 17, 2020 Community, Service
Connect for COVID-19 initiative puts patients back in touch with families
To combat the tragic loneliness that often comes with a diagnosis of COVID-19, a group of Princeton students and alumni is raising money and gathering secondhand smart devices so that sick patients can connect with loved ones during their isolation, even when they canât be in the same room.
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April 17, 2020 News, Research, Technology
Princeton endorses guidelines aimed at rapid transfer of COVID-19 solutions to public
Princeton has endorsed new guidelines aimed at accelerating the transition of the University’s COVID-19 discoveries into solutions to protect health care workers and to prevent, diagnose, treat and contain the pandemic. During the pandemic, most Princeton COVID-19-related innovations will be made accessible without charge to companies or other entities.
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April 15, 2020 Community, Podcasts
âWe Roarâ podcast features Princetoniansâ voices on the COVID-19 pandemic
Princeton has launched “We Roar,” a new podcast series to share the personal stories and expertise of students, faculty, staff and alumni during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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April 13, 2020 News, Research, Technology
NSF RAPID grant to track and contain pandemic
The National Science Foundation has awarded emergency grants to two teams of Princeton researchers developing ways to better track and contain pandemics including COVID-19. The grants were awarded through the NSFâs Rapid Response Research (RAPID) program, which provides support for scientific efforts to respond to emergencies and unexpected events.
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April 9, 2020 Health Care, Policy
Love in the time of COVID-19: negligence in the Nicaraguan response
Ben Gallo â17, a medical student at Brown University, and Brianna Christophers â17, currently at Weill Cornell Medicine, have co-authored an article in âThe Lancet Global Healthâ outlining the Nicaraguan governmentâs erratic response to COVID-19. Directly contradicting mitigation strategies recommended by the World Health Organization, President Daniel Ortega has refused to encourage any physical distancing measures. Gallo, Christophers, and their co-authors state that the countryâs lack of testing and low numbers of ventilators can cause the already fragile public health infrastructure to collapse under the pressure of widespread infection.
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April 9, 2020 Community, Education,
University staff work 24/7 to support on-campus community during coronavirus pandemic
During the coronavirus pandemic, the Princeton campus might look like a ghost town in the bloom of springtime. But in fact, hundreds of essential staff members are practicing social distancing while working around the clock to support the on-campus community, and hundreds of other staff members are working from home to provide support.