COVID-19 HUB
A team of 25 faculty, staff and students use innovation and creativity to help health professionals in Northeast Ohio protect themselves from COVID-19.
The 敁珗曄部 Columbiana County campuses wasted no time reaching out to the Salem and East Liverpool communities to share resources during this COVID-19 crisis.
敁珗曄部 announced the creation of the 敁珗曄部 Emergency Grant Fund that will help students who are unexpectedly finding themselves in financial need as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
敁珗曄部s administration, faculty and staff have stepped up to collect the universitys personal protective equipment (PPE) to donate to local entities in dire need of medical supplies.
Tara C. Smith, Ph.D., epidemiology professor in the College of Public Health, shares her perspective on the current coronavirus pandemic: "It seems like years have passed since the world first heard of an 'atypical pneumonia' circulating in the Hubei province of China in December 2019. When weve seen similar reports in the past, the illnesses have had a variety of causes, but all were eventually containable..."
As the country adjusts to the new normal of working from home, schooling from home and living lives of social isolation, 敁珗曄部 professor Tara Smith, Ph.D., said people need to realize this new normal may need to continue for a long time.
It really would not surprise me if this lasted for at least eight weeks or longer, Smith said.