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May 21, 2020 Health Care, Service
Arpita Chatterjee *10 Reaches Out to Help the Land of Bengal Tigers
Although she lives in Sydney, Australia, Arpita Chatterjee *10 partnered with a friend in Belgium, one in California, and another in Arkansas, to begin Save Our Saviours, an international effort to supply personal protective equipment to public hospitals in the Indian state of West Bengal.
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May 20, 2020 Service, Technology
Kristen Sonday ’09 launches online pro bono opportunity guide for lawyers
Kristen Sonday ’09 co-founded Paladin in 2015 to help connect corporate legal teams with pro bono opportunities. Now that COVID-19 has impacted millions of Americans and created a national legal emergency, Paladin partnered with the American Bar Association, LegalZoom, and Clio to launch an online pro bono opportunity guide for lawyers looking to help the people hit hardest by the crisis.
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May 19, 2020 Arts/Cultural, Community, Education, Health Care, News, Policy, Service
Medical Anthropology students share COVID-19 projects in online showcase
Medical Anthropology (ANT/HUM 240) might be the rare Princeton course that was deepened and enriched by the life-altering circumstances of the COVID-19 pandemic, since its focus is very much related to how the humanities and anthropology can help us understand illness, healing and present-day struggles for wellbeing. The students’ class projects have been made available in a special online showcase.
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May 19, 2020 Health Care, Podcasts
‘We Roar’ podcast: A COVID vaccine in 12-18 months? Don’t count on it, says Gordon Douglas ’55
In the latest episode of the “We Roar” podcast, Gordon Douglas ’55, the former president of Merck’s vaccine division and a doctor with decades of clinical and academic experience, describes what it will take to produce a coronavirus vaccine in less than two years — and why that timeline is already “miraculously fast.”
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May 18, 2020 News
Physicists and ‘Big Science’ researchers crowdsource solutions on new COVID-19 website
Peter Elmer and other Princeton researchers are part of an international team that established Science Responds, a website that looks for ways that data science, statistics and software development can be used to assist in the global fight against COVID-19.
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May 18, 2020 Health Care, News, Research
New Princeton COVID-19 study: ‘Warmer or more humid climates will not slow the virus’
Local variations in climate are not likely to dominate the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a Princeton University study published May 18 in the journal, Science. “We project that warmer or more humid climates will not slow the virus at the early stage of the pandemic,” said first author Rachel Baker, a postdoctoral research associate in the Princeton Environmental Institute (PEI).
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May 18, 2020 Health Care, News, Research
National Science Foundation awards grant to Princeton engineers to investigate asymptomatic spread of COVID-19
A National Science Foundation grant will support Princeton researchers studying how COVID-19 may be spread by people without symptoms through everyday social interactions involving breathing and speaking.
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May 17, 2020 Health Care
Architects partner with hospital to rethink facilities in the midst of COVID-19
Jeff Mansfield ’08, Amie Shao ’06 *10, Regina (Yang) Chen ‘08 and others at MASS Design Group, a nonprofit architecture firm based in Boston and Kigali, Rwanda, partnered with the Mount Sinai Health System in New York City to research protocols so that hospitals can responsibly redesign existing spaces to provide the best care, while protecting their health care workers and mitigating the spread of infection as much as possible.
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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.
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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.
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