COVID-19
COVID-19 Provides Ñý¼§Ö±²¥ State Nursing Students Unparalleled Experience
During the COVID-19 pandemic, students in Ñý¼§Ö±²¥ State University’s College of Nursing have been employed in hospitals throughout Northeast Ohio, where they have honed their skills and observed healthcare professionals on the front lines.
10 Questions With Gokarna Sharma Ñý¼§Ö±²¥ the Contact Tracing App
Apple and Google partnered in early April to create a new smartphone app that uses Bluetooth to track coronavirus cases. Using a technology called contact tracing, the app alerts a user when they come in contact with someone who has been positively diagnosed with COVID-19. Gokarna Sharma, assistant professor in Computer Science, recently answered 10 questions about the new app based on his professional opinion. Sharma is experienced in algorithms, blockchain and smart technologies such as this.
Ñý¼§Ö±²¥ State Campus Food Truck to Deliver Meals to Local K-12 Students
Ñý¼§Ö±²¥ State’s famous food truck, known for its mouth-watering pulled pork sandwiches and fresh-cut french fries, is now becoming known for giving back to its community. The university is loaning its campus food truck to Aramark to provide meals to students from Ñý¼§Ö±²¥, Elyria and Lorain City School Districts who are affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Student Nurses donate to local hospitals
On Friday, May 8, Ñý¼§Ö±²¥ State Trumbull's Student Nurses Association donated pepperoni rolls to local healthcare workers. Nursing faculty and students provided the rolls to staff on the floors that they normally complete clinical experiences. Hospitals included Mercy Health-St. Elizabeth Youn…
Ñý¼§Ö±²¥ State Magazine: Perspective on a Pandemic
Tara C. Smith, PhD—a professor of epidemiology and head of the Smith Emerging Infections Laboratory at Ñý¼§Ö±²¥ State’s College of Public Health. For years, Smith has studied plagues and pandemics throughout history. We asked her to share her perspective on the latest global pandemic, COVID-19, with the Ñý¼§Ö±²¥ State community.
Flashes of Inspiration: Poetry to honor front line workers
Ñý¼§Ö±²¥ State University is launching a series of videos showcasing the talents of our faculty and staff aimed at providing an uplifting respite from the stress of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Salem Nursing Faculty Organize Effort to Feed Local Healthcare Workers
Nurses are known for their compassion, concern and desire to care for others. The nursing faculty at the Ñý¼§Ö±²¥ State Salem Campus recently demonstrated that compassion and care by delivering food to frontline workers at local healthcare facilities.
Ñý¼§Ö±²¥ State Geauga and Twinsburg Academic Center Faculty & Staff Volunteer During Coronavirus Crisis
We’re all doing our part by working and studying from home, exercising social distancing, and forgoing our regular routines to flatten the curve. But several individuals from the Ñý¼§Ö±²¥ State University Geauga Campus and Twinsburg Academic Center community have gone the extra mile by rolling up their …
Ashtabula Students on the Frontlines of COVID-19 Fight
For almost all of the students in the nursing and allied health programs at Ñý¼§Ö±²¥ State University at Ashtabula, their final semesters are spent in classrooms and clinical settings getting hands-on experience to prepare them for their professional careers. But for many this year, that hands-on experi…
How the CPM IT Department Built a Virtual Medical School in Wake of COVID-19
So how do you successfully relocate a four-year medical school to the comfort of home for an entire college? With anatomy labs, casting and injection workshops, face-to-face patient simulations and more, the team of three had to get creative – and fast.