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May 5, 2020 Health Care
Madison couple on front lines of COVID-19 embracing ‘air hugs’
Dr. Maggie Nolan ’05 and her husband, Dr. Matt Nolan, along with their three young children, are adjusting to life with COVID-19. (Photo by John Hart, Wisconsin State Journal)
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Rebounding from Recession: Can the Economy Roar Back from the Pandemic?
Economist and Princeton Professor Alan Blinder ’67 considers the parallels between the Spanish flu of 1918 and the COVID-19 pandemic, calling the current disruption “one of the most extreme economic events that has ever taken place.”
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May 5, 2020 Community
Kolanut Capital Kenya donates chickens to feed COVID-19 victims
Kolanut Capital Kenya, an Africa-focused investment company founded by a group of Princeton alumni and current students, donated 600 chickens to the Nakuru County Level 5 Hospital in Kenya.
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May 5, 2020 Community, Health Care
With One Project, Alum Aids Both Restaurant and Hospital Workers
Harvard medical student Natalie Guo ’12 founded Off Their Plate to feed hospital workers while keeping local restaurants workers employed in eight cities nationwide. Within a few weeks, the group had raised $3 million in donations and had served more than 100,000 meals from more than 90 participating restaurants.
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May 5, 2020 Health Care, Research, Technology
FDA approves ventilator designed by particle physics community
In just six weeks, from March 19 to May 1, an international team of physicists and engineers led by Princeton’s Cristian Galbiati brought a ventilator from concept to FDA approval.
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May 5, 2020 Health Care
New York Nurse Lauren Edmonds ’10 Battles COVID-19 and Fear
Intensive care nurse Lauren Edmonds ’10 recounts the changes — and the rising anxiety — in her New York hospital, where COVID-19 “has invaded hospitals and overwhelmed the health-care system to such an extent that no cough is benign and no symptom innocuous.”
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May 4, 2020 Community, Health Care, Service
Feeding the Frontlines
Disappointed to leave campus due to the COVID-19 outbreak, Princeton seniors and twin sisters Sneha and Preeti Iyer arrived back home to Fulton County, Georgia, ready to redirect their energy and reconnect with friends by helping launch a much-needed initiative that supports overworked health care workers in their communities.
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May 4, 2020 Health Care
In Boston, Alumni Doctors Face COVID-19 Together
Edward Ryan ’84, David Brown ’85, Erica Shenoy ’98, Jeffrey Ecker ’84, Paul Biddinger ’90, all of Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, share their experiences fighting COVID-19.
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May 3, 2020 Education, News, Service
Remote Academia transformed a campus reading group into a worldwide education resource
Princeton students at the Center for Information Technology Policy have transformed their small campus reading group about how technology can transform education and teaching into a dynamic online resource with more than 3,000 members from 600 academic institutions.
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May 1, 2020 Health Care
Dr. Steven Brown ’77 Makes Hospital Rounds from His Living Room
Steven Brown ’77 has practiced medicine in rural areas for more than 10 years, not by meeting patients in an office or by their hospital beds, but virtually, monitoring them in hospitals from Missouri and Arkansas to Oklahoma and Wisconsin. Now with COVID-19 he has turned his living room into a command center for 7 p.m. to 7 a.m. shifts.
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