Faculty couple reflects on the challenges—and surprises—of pandemic life
For history professors Molly Ball and Pablo Sierra Silva, adjusting to online teaching and caring for three young children has been a learning experience.
Rochester economist: Without stronger leadership, ‘disaster’ lies ahead
Without a coordinated system of testing, tracing, and quarantining for COVID-19, economic activity cannot resume—and the downturn will be steeper and longer than any since before World War II, says Rochester economist Narayana Kocherlakota.
University and area health organizations partner to promote COVID-19 prevention information
Area health care providers and organization have partnered to create an informed community-wide campaign to amplify key messages about COVID-19 that local citizens need to know to stay healthy.
First mobile app for caregivers of children with FASD reaches trial stage
After two-and-a-half years of development and testing, the first promising results are in for an app designed to help caregivers of children with fetal alcohol spectrum disorder.
Why do people hoard and socialize during a pandemic?
“Proximity is usually associated with intimacy, and distance with strangeness,” explains Rochester anthropologist Robert Foster. “The public challenge at the moment is that we must learn to express our care and concern by maintaining distance, which is counter-intuitive.”
Rochester economist: ‘Congress will have to do more’ to fight recession
The $2 trillion stimulus plan working its way through Congress likely won’t be adequate to save the US economy from recession in the face of the coronavirus pandemic, says University of Rochester economist Narayana Kocherlakota.
‘Make every effort to connect—digitally—with other people’
While social distancing is key to slowing the spread of coronavirus, people can combat the isolation with technology, say two Rochester psychologists.
‘Enjoy quality time’: Tips for parents to support kids during coronavirus closings
As K-12 students and their families face time away from school because of coronavirus closings, University of Rochester school counseling expert Bonnie Rubenstein says that it’s important to develop and maintain a culture of caring—not only at school, but also at home.
Who was the first woman to graduate from Rochester?
Ella Salome Wilcoxen, Class of 1901, was in her mid-30s when she applied, and a special faculty committee had to be formed to approve her request. She went on to become a teacher.
Study: Opioid crisis may be far worse than thought
The number of deaths attributed to opioid-related overdoses could be 28 percent higher than previously reported because of incomplete death records, according to new Rochester research.