May

May 2020 (37 Articles)

• Standing Together Against Racism

  Friday, May 29, 2020

• TC Researchers Build COVID Protective Equipment for Healthcare Professionals

  Faculty and students at two TC research labs have teamed up with a local business to make and distribute shields and other gear to provide personal protection for doctors who intubate COVID patients

• Healthcare Workers and Medical Scientists Are Seen as Most Credible on COVID

  A TC survey finds that frontline expertise is the bottom line for the public

• To Temper COVID-19 Conflict and Anxiety, write TC’s Coleman and Chan, “Know Thyself”

  A new survey helps people become more aware of how they tend to respond to conflict and anxiety

• Celebrating the end of the academic year together

  Thursday, May 21, 2020

• What Matters Most

  by Anderson Patrick Collin Smith, Ph.D. ’20, M.Ed. ’18, English Education, Department of Arts & Humanities

• And Speaking of Convocation

  More from friends, luminaries and TC students

• Crisis, Opportunity and Inspiration

  Nikole Hannah-Jones, Jill Biden and Hillary Clinton headline Teachers College’s stirring virtual Convocation

• Music to America’s Ears

  Medical equipment from China, arranged by TC Trustee Edith Shih, and a concert to celebrate

• Ready for Prime Time

  How TC faculty members are taking online teaching to the next level

• Zoom Times at TC

  How Academic Technology Services and other TCIT offices helped put the College in position to work online

• Nine Days in March

  How TC moved all its courses online

• COVID-19 Update

  Tuesday, May 19, 2020

• Statues with Limitations: Detra Price-Dennis

• The Art of Scaling Up: Richard Jochum

• Using Technology to Bridge Disciplines: Laudan Jahromi

• An Exercise in Eliminating Bias: Carol Ewing Garber

• Practicing the Inclusion She Preaches: Angel Wang

• Mentors, Scholars, Editors and Authors

  More honors for TC faculty, students and emeriti

• The Show Will Go On

  TC’s first-ever virtual Convocation, headlined by Pulitzer Prize-winner Nikole Hannah-Jones, will reflect a time of challenge and heroism

• Want to Minimize Your Risks of COVID-19?

  A new tool from a TC scientist may reduce personal risk and help inform local, national and business guidelines

• To Be or Not to Be…A Parent

  In American Psychology, TC’s Aurélie Athan proposes a new theory of reproductive identity

• Gamifying Media Literacy

  TC’s LAMBOOZLED! team reports on why that strategy works

• Mission Virtually Accomplished

  TC moved at warp speed to take its courses online. Now the College is redefining virtual instruction.

• Using “Data” to Humanize the Patient

  A COVID ICU nurse applies lessons from TC’s doctoral program

• Teaching from Empathy

  Dylan Kapit understands disability and difference from the inside

• COVID-19 School Closings Present Opportunities to Make Education More Equitable, Amy Stuart Wells Writes in Education Week

• TC’s statement on New Title IX Regulations From the U.S. Department of Education

  Thursday, May 7, 2020

• A Star Turns Cheerleader

  A surprise online appearance by the NBA’s Shane Battier, arranged by TC’s EPIC, boosts morale among Columbia Medical Center frontline staff

• Literally on the Frontlines

  Health Education doctoral student Danielle Herring is helping New Jersey’s residents get tested for COVID-19

• Making the Most of Her Time

  Career changer and school counseling graduate Cindy Ling has been pulling an extended transcontinental all-nighter

• Ensuring That Women Are Heard — on Zoom

  Mashable talks to Sarah Brazaitis about how and why online meetings must honor women’s voices

• Using YouTube to Fight COVID-19

  The medium is ideal — it’s the messaging that needs work, finds a study led by TC’s Charles Basch

• Doing What He Can

  Volunteering in hospital ICUs, Pavel Placido has literally helped COVID patients to breathe

• “The Greatest Opportunity Ever”

  At TC, applied physiology student Charmagne Jones fulfilled one dream — and realized she had many others

• COVID-19 Update

  Friday, May 1, 2020

• Amid the COVID Crisis, Honors Continue for TC Community Members