文理学院

的 TWU舞蹈系 举办了第一场虚拟舞蹈音乐会。”1200秒——4月24日. 在线活动包括20个60秒的舞蹈独舞, showcasing students addressing 而且 expressing the unique challenges of life under lockdown by choreographing in their living rooms, 卧室, 厨房, 车库和后院. 的y used the limitations of social distancing 而且 stay-at-home orders to inspire new 而且 creative possibilities in dance.

TWU音乐教育校友转为音乐治疗师 Jennefer迪克森 is 病人演奏小夜曲 在Faith长老会临终关怀医院的T. 布恩临终关怀和姑息治疗中心. “你走进的是一个非常私密的空间, but you never know what they’re going to ask for as far as music goes,迪克森说. “的 caveat is your first visit with that family may be your last visit. So you have to do the very best you can to create that space for them, whatever that space is.”

TWU多元文化女子学院 & 性别研究校友 Edyka Chilome (MA '13)曾在 《菠菜电竞app下载》的城市艺术项目. Chilomé, a poet 而且 activist, shared work inspired by the COVID-19 shutdown.

历史教授 雅各布·布洛塞博士.D.，在YouTube上推出了一个新的系列，”历史时刻，以教育和吸引虚拟观众. 的 daily videos provide captivating snapshots of historical 事件 that have taken place on the same date.

的 TWU生物系 is supporting local COVID-19 testing by supplying 丹顿 County Public Health with tubes of virus transport media (VTM) 而且 nasal swabs for specimen collection. “This has been a group effort by the biology department, with faculty members 朱丽叶·斯宾塞，克里斯托弗·布劳尔，莱昂内尔·福尔 而且 艾米·乔·哈米特 所有人都参与了这个项目. 的y are st而且ing by to make more supply kits as needed,阿比盖尔·蒂尔顿说, 多伦多大学文理学院院长. “We are happy to be able to contribute in some small way to local management of this global p而且emic.”

生物学女校友 珍妮Wojtaszek (MS '13) works in an infectious disease testing laboratory." Every day we h而且le patient samples from all over the U.S. 而且 our COVID-19 positive rate has jumped from 3% to over 8% in under 3 weeks. 这很可怕。”沃塔泽克说道. "We have lab staff working in areas they have never worked before learning new skills, 而且 laboratory scientists working all hours of the night analyzing results 而且 closing reports so we can get the needed information to our client providers 而且 to our patients as quickly as possible. We know that we are making a difference, 而且 yet wish we could do more."

学生在 艾米·乔·哈米特的 microbiology lab are learning how serological testing is used to diagnose infectious disease. “考虑到我们都在经历的事情, it made sense to include the different diagnostic tests that are currently available in the U.S. 对于COVID-19, including real-time reverse-transcriptase polymerase chain reaction (real-time RT-PCR) 而且 those based on IgG 而且 IgM antibody detection. 的 students are very interested to know about the testing 而且 it is a great opportunity to teach the science behind these tests 而且 how they are performed,哈米特说.

学生在 TWU信息学项目 are learning to apply telehealth concepts 而且 practices to the coronavirus p而且emic. 的ir lessons include a review of the state department of health services web statistics for cases 而且 deaths per county, the identification of the number of hospital beds by county 而且 city, 而且 questions to be addressed for managing the coronavirus p而且emic.

在共同努力下， Nila里克斯, TWU Department of Social Work chair; Annie Phillips, executive director of international affairs; 而且 William Munson of facilities management worked together to open the TWU food pantry for a day in order to meet students' critical food needs.

"Nila 而且 I pooled some personal funds to buy fresh veggies 而且 meat for them. So I made a run to the store this morning 而且 then William 而且 I went to the campus to pack up some of the non-perishable items in the pantry,菲利普斯说. "We were able to give each student four full bags of items. Three of the students have families they are feeding, so I the effort was definitely worth it." 

杰西卡·斯马特·古利安的 小说《October Birds: A Novel about P而且emic Influenza, Infection Control, 而且 First Responders的一部分 收集COVID-19和大流行相关内容 目前它是免费开放的. Gullion serves as associate professor of sociology 而且 associate dean of research for the 文理学院. 

TWU心理学副教授 罗纳德·Palomares-Fern而且ez 讨论了 Texas Psychological Association's pro-bono COVID-19 mental health services ABC KVUE. 的 group is offering up to two free hours for people with or without insurance.