Brown University Dec. 4 announced that a new study of airflow patterns inside a car s passenger cabin offers some suggestions for potentially reducing the risk of COVID-19 transmission while sharing rides with others.
The study, by a team of Brown University researchers led by graduate student in Brownâs engineering school Asimanshu Das and University of Massachusetts at Amherst associate professor Varghese Mathai, used computer models to simulate the airflow inside a compact car with various combinations of windows open or closed.
The simulations showed that opening windows â the more windows the better â created airflow patterns that dramatically reduced the concentration of airborne particles exchanged between a driver and a single passenger. Blasting the carâs ventilation system didnât circulate air nearly as well as a few open windows, the researchers found, according to the news release.
It’s a certainty that we’ll be entering both the new year and a new Democratic administration with the American economy on its knees. We’ll return to something resembling normalcy with time, but communities across the country and the lives of millions have already been irrevocably altered. The lesson of the last financial crisis that precarity endures for working Americans long after the markets and headline figures rebound will have to be learned again. And the central truth of our economic system will have to be confronted afresh: Ours is an economy where profits and power accrue almost wholly to a class of owners who, as we’ve seen this year, are willing and able to work their employees quite literally to death. The fact that the Biden administration is unlikely to produce solutions that get to the heart of our national iniquities hasn’t absolved us from the responsibility of devising, discussing, and promoting solutions to them. Many of the most promising ideas in circu
Gabriel Bump named 2020 winner of the Ernest Gaines Award
by Chevel Johnson, The Associated Press
Posted Dec 21, 2020 4:10 pm EDT
Last Updated Dec 21, 2020 at 4:14 pm EDT
NEW ORLEANS Chicago’s South Side comes alive through the writings of Gabriel Bump’s debut novel, “Everywhere You Don’t Belong,” which has earned him recognition as the 2020 winner of the Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence.
The nationally acclaimed award, which recognizes outstanding work from African American fiction writers, is in its 14th year and comes with a $15,000 prize given by the Baton Rouge Area Foundation. Bump will receive the award in a virtual ceremony Jan. 28.
Chevel Johnson
Gabriel Bump, 2020 Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence winner, discusses his novel, Everywhere You Don t Belong, at the county library in St. Louis, Mo. Bump, a Chicago native, now resides in Buffalo, New York. (Kara Hayes Smith via AP) December 21, 2020 - 1:10 PM
NEW ORLEANS - Chicago s South Side comes alive through the writings of Gabriel Bump s debut novel, âEverywhere You Don t Belong, which has earned him recognition as the 2020 winner of the Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence.
The nationally acclaimed award, which recognizes outstanding work from African American fiction writers, is in its 14th year and comes with a $15,000 prize given by the Baton Rouge Area Foundation. Bump will receive the award in a virtual ceremony Jan. 28.