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May 11, 2020 Arts/Cultural
These Princeton Alumni Are Creating Art From Home
The PAW’s asked alumni artists how they are promoting and practicing their art from home, and received a flood of responses. Here are snapshots of the creative lives of many other Princetonians.
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May 8, 2020 Health Care, Podcasts, Research
‘We Roar’ podcast: Battling the Racial Inequities of COVID-19
In the new “We Roar” podcast, surgical resident Glenn Wakam ’11 urges broad-based action to remedy health disparities exposed and amplified by the pandemic. “When this all started, COVID-19 was touted as the great equalizer,” said Wakam, currently volunteering in a Detroit-area hospital. “Officials said it didn’t matter your race, your religion, your socioeconomic status, that this would affect us all the same. That’s just not true.”
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May 8, 2020 Health Care, Service
Jim Ayala ’84 illuminates the COVID-19 medical response in the Philippines
In the poorest sections of rural Philippines, Jim Ayala ’84 and his solar-energy company have donated PPE equipment for more than 2,300 village frontliners and provided the equipment to light-up more than 130 unelectrified quarantine stations so that the health volunteers can effectively and safely do their jobs.
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May 7, 2020 News
Wilson School Grads’ 10th ‘Woounion’ Raises a Toast and Funds for Pandemic Relief
Tracey Ross *10, Adam Petkun *10, Jocelyn Yin *10, and Alex Flores *10 raised funds for New Jersey Pandemic Relief while helping classmates celebrate with an online “Woounion.”
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May 7, 2020 Health Care
WWS Reacts: Health Coverage in the U.S. During Covid-19
Since its inception ten years ago, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) has extended health care coverage to tens of millions of previously uninsured Americans. Yet, as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, millions of people have lost their jobs and employer-sponsored health insurance. The Trump administration has decided not to mandate a special ACA enrollment period, while many state governments face severe shortages in funding that would enable them to increase Medicaid coverage. We asked faculty expert Heather Howard to share her thoughts on the ACA’s future.
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May 7, 2020 Education, Health Care
Public Health Educator Lindsey Leininger ’99 Helps Combat Coronavirus Misinformation
Overwhelmed with questions from friends and students, Lindsey Leininger ’99, a public health educator and researcher and a clinical professor at Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business, teamed up with friends, all of whom hold doctorates in various fields, to start Dear Pandemic, a Facebook page offering evidence-based advice on COVID-19.
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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.”
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May 6, 2020 Technology
With Brian Jaffe ’06’s Covid Assist, Help is Just a Text Message Away
Brian Jaffe ’06 had a simple idea to connect neighbors who can’t leave their homes with volunteers willing to run errands for them. His organization, Covid Assist, now has nearly 1,000 volunteers in 34 states.
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May 6, 2020 Service
Field hockey players craft fitness video for Special Olympics athletes
MaryKate Neff ’21 and Grace Brightbill ’21, members of the Princeton field hockey team, crafted a fitness video specifically for Special Olympics athletes who need some engagement during the COVID-19 crisis.
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May 5, 2020 Community, Service
At a California Food Bank, Anthony Shu ’16 Watches Needs Grow
As the marketing coordinator at Second Harvest of Silicon Valley, a food bank in California’s Bay Area, Anthony Shu ’16 has seen a dramatic increase in need since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. Hotline phone calls are up 500 percent, and Second Harvest’s Get Food web page has seen traffic increase tenfold since sheltering-in-place began.
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