Subject: The Edge: Students Need Emergency Aid. Peers, Advocates, and Entrepreneurs Are Getting Creative to Deliver It.
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The Chronicle covering innovation in and around academe. Here’s what I’m thinking about this week.
Food insecurity has soared nationwide. Student-hunger activists are adapting to the need.
Ever since I learned about Swipe Out Hunger, an organization that helps students donate meal-plan credits to classmates in need, I’ve been intrigued by its model, built on altruism and activism and some level of cooperation from colleges’ dining services.
In the last year, rates of hunger around the country have skyrocketed: Last month
Waiting to Exhale: Students, Faculty, and Staff Reflect a Year After the COVID Shutdown
Megan Henriquez, Rod Hurley, Tracy Dennis-Tiwary, and Shawna Townsend
It has been a year since COVID altered life at CUNY, and life in general. Once we gathered in classrooms, hallways, and cafeterias. Now we gather largely on Zoom. Too many of us have lost loved ones and treasured colleagues or faced financial hardship and uncertainty, or both. More of us have had to change the ways we work, teach, learn, and spend time with families and friends.
To take stock of this year and what lies ahead, we invited Graduate Center students, faculty, and staff to share their experiences. A nursing Ph.D. student described how the 7 p.m. cheer made her feel. Our chief librarian helped kids find solace in cats. A student canceled her dissertation research trip and reconfigured her project.
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Two variants may account for half of New York Cityâs virus cases, analysis finds.
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Variants Comprise About Half of N.Y.C. Virus Cases, Officials Say
New York City health officials said genetic analysis suggested that 51 percent of the cityâs coronavirus cases were now caused by two new variants, but emphasized that vaccines remained effective.
âUnfortunately we have found that the new variants of Covid-19 are continuing to spread. And when you combine the variant of concern, B.1.1.7., the one first reported in the U.K., and the new variant of interest, B.1.5.2.6., that was first reported here in New York, together these new variants account for 51 percent of all cases that we have in the city right now. So for the variant of interest, B.1.5.2.6., that was reported here first in New York, our preliminary analysis indicates that it is probably more infectious than older strains of the virus. You know, what I referred last week to âCovid Classic.â
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Louise Nevelson, “The Endless Column,” 1969-1985, painted wood, Collection of the Farnsworth Art Museum. Bequest of Nathan Berliawsky, 1980. Courtesy photo
On Thursday, March 25, the Farnsworth Art Museum will present an online lecture by writer, art historian, and psychoanalyst Laurie Wilson entitled “Empress of the Environment: Louise Nevelson at a Crossroad.” The talk will take place on Zoom, from 2-3 p.m.
After two decades of creating celebrated wood sculptures, in 1965-1966 Nevelson turned to new materials, at first plastic and then metal. She also shifted from making work to be seen indoors to creating sculpture to be seen outdoors and began to title her works “Atmospheres” and “Environments.”