URC Coronavirus Response
Researchers from all three institutions in the University Resource Corridor are deploying resources to support communities during the COVID-19 pandemic. They are creating testing facilities and setting up care units, fabricating or holding drives to source much-needed personal protection equipment for first responders, providing insight for families securing in place at home doing their part to "flatten the curve," offering insights on the global supply chain, and more:
- Via Crain’s Detroit: Michigan’s top executives see economic optimism, return to in-person work in next 6 months
- Via the Detroit News: Opinion: COVID-19 vaccine is a game-changer that can stop the pandemic
- Via WXYZ Spotlight on the News: How Michigan leaders of UM, MSU & WSU are confronting COVID-19 through the URC | WXYZ interview video
- Via Grand Rapids Business Journal: Research Drives Growth in Michigan
- Via Detroit News: Michigan's racial disparity disappears in new virus cases
- Via Detroit Free Press: MSU, U-M, Wayne State presidents: In-person classes likely won't resume until fall 2021
- Via Detroit News: Opinion: Don’t let other health care issues slide during pandemic
- Via Bridge Magazine: Opinion | How Michigan universities are collaborating to continue K-12 learning
- Via Detroit Free Press: Our college presidents face unprecedented challenges
- Via MEDC: Arsenal of Innovation: Academia Answers the call in Michigan by Supporting COVID-19
- Via Crain's Detroit Business: Commentary: Michigan's research universities involved in COVID-19 fight
- Detroit Regional Chamber Tele-Town Hall: Research Universities Lend Expertise And Support Amid Crisis
- Via Detroit Free Press: Opinion: Race disparities amid infectious diseases aren't new. It's time we took action
- MSU Makes Available Graduating Health Care Students to Aid in COVID-19 Response
- U-M researchers launch a wide range of efforts to study and address coronavirus pandemic
- Michigan Medicine opens new, 32-bed COVID-19 unit
- Wayne State, Wayne State Physician Group and ACCESS team up to offer drive-through COVID-19 testing of health care workers and first responders in Detroit and Dearborn
University COVID-19 Policy Pages: MSU | U-M | WSU
Tech Transfer & Innovation
- Deerfield commits up to $130M to commercialize U-M drug discovery
- U-M spinout Asalyxa Bio developing inflammatory treatment platform, aiding COVID-19 patients
- U-M Tech Transfer: Our fight against COVID-19
- How 3 Michigan university presidents who are doctors prepared for coronavirus
- Free coronavirus sequencing kits for researchers offered by U-M startup
Business & Economics
- Via MEDC: Arsenal of Innovation: Academia Answers the call in Michigan by Supporting COVID-19
- U-M helping Detroit’s small businesses locate, navigate coronavirus-related financial aid
- U-M’s Economic Growth Institute guides small businesses through turmoil, retooling
- Broad College of Business helps companies overcome hiring challenges
- EntryPoint Releases 2020 Detroit Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Report
- TechTown launches emergency fund for Detroit small businesses
- Reduced consumer spending will outlast coronavirus
- MSU Faculty Voice: Jason Miller: COVID-19 impacts on truckloads of freight
- U-M Faculty Q&A: Ravi Anupindi on the coronavirus impact on business
- U-M economists: New models see coronavirus-induced recession
- U-M economist sees sharp short-lived effects of coronavirus
Coronavirus Resources & News
As the news changes rapidly, daily updates on the latest COVID-19-related stories are organized by week below. COVID-19 vaccine stories are in bold.
Week of September 27, 2021
- COVID-19 infection increases risk for preeclampsia reported by WSU and PRB investigators
- COVID-19 should become seasonal, U-M researcher says
Week of September 20, 2021
- WSU Dept of Emergency Medicine secures $15.88M from CDC to study viral infection surveillance
- MSU leading global COVID-19 wastewater monitoring effort
- Wastewater to drinking water: EPA grants $1.2M to U-M for virus removal study
Week of September 13, 2021
- Via WXYZ: Managing conversations around COVID-19 when scheduling playdates for your kids
- COVID-19 disproportionately impacted Michigan health care, service workers early in pandemic
- Majority of older adults say health care workers should have to get COVID-19 vaccine
- Study offers deeper dive into demand for educational choices, implications for schools during pandemic
Week of September 6, 2021
Week of August 30, 2021
Week of June 7, 2021
- Wayne State joins the COVID-19 College Vaccine Challenge
- Dr. Mona Urges MI Parents to Protect Adolescents with COVID-19 Vaccine
- Challenge accepted: MSU joins COVID-19 College Vaccination Challenge
Week of May 31, 2021
- Results of recent campus vaccination survey encouraging, provide insight for fall
- Ask the Expert: How to build back better health habits after the pandemic year
- Michigan eviction filings dropped 65% in 2020, compared to pre-pandemic
- Economic forecasters faced challenges, forged innovations during pandemic
- Schools, parents should use summer to prepare their K-12 students for fall in-person classes
Week of May 24, 2021
- Ask the Expert: Coping with post-pandemic anxiety
- Progress overcoming pandemic fuels positive growth in US, Michigan, say U-M economists
- Do COVID-19 vaccines care whether you’re female or male?
- WSU Michigan Developmental Disabilities Institute (MI-DDI) launches COVID-19 vaccine confidence initiative to #VaccinateByADA
Week of May 17, 2021
- Ask the Expert: Five tips for going back into the real world
- Severe COVID-19 may be linked to long-haul symptoms
Week of May 10, 2021
- Vaccine hesitancy, rooted in institutional mistrust, could stand in way of COVID-19 herd immunity
- Can schools require COVID-19 vaccines for students?
- U-M updates COVID-19 face-covering, quarantine policies
Week of May 3, 2021
- COVID-19 vaccine: Understanding herd immunity, vaccine hesitancy
- Ask the Expert: Should I get the J & J vaccine?
- Study finds link between statin use and reduced COVID-19 deaths
- New study from Wayne State explores why Blacks have a higher risk of dying from COVID-19
Week of April 26, 2021
- How COVID may reshape the future of Autism education
- Nursing student’s road to graduation marked by life-changing experience battling the pandemic
- COVID-19 vaccine required for students choosing to live on campus
Week of April 19, 2021
- Why student athletes need a new playbook to stay safe in the COVID-19 era
- How countries on five continents responded to the pandemic, helping shape future of health policy
Week of April 12, 2021
- Michigan coronavirus dashboard to include disparities, vaccination data
- Via WXYZ Detroit: Spotlight on the News: Michigan’s COVID-19 surge; what do top medical experts think?
- America gets a D+ for school infrastructure — but federal COVID relief could pay for many repairs
Week of April 5, 2021
Week of March 29, 2021
- Mask use low when people visit with friends
- More Detroiters ‘very likely’ to get COVID-19 vaccine than 4 months ago, U-M survey finds
Week of March 22, 2021
- Experts discuss local distribution efforts of COVID-19 vaccines; MSU prepares to receive doses
- COVID-19 ‘curveballs’ plentiful during past year, but U-M startups find new missions, motivations
- Drs. Kilgore, Zervos discuss their roles in Moderna, Johnson & Johnson vaccines
- Coughs create complicated airflows. A new project explores how they spread viruses
- Frequent seasonal coronavirus reinfections hint at possibility of endemic COVID-19
- Monitoring campus for the novel coronavirus
- Why I Will: Employees discuss why COVID-19 vaccination is important
Week of March 15, 2021
- Volunteering at COVID-19 test site leads medical students to publish study on role neighborhoods plays on hospital outcomes
- Vaccine myths and scientific facts
- Ask the Expert: When will work go back to normal?
- CDC blurs geography in reporting COVID-19 deaths, researchers say
- What the pandemic stimulus means for children who are homeless
- New report: Pre-pandemic literacy has improved but will students be retained?
- Via WXYZ Spotlight on the News: 1-year after COVID-19, where is MI on vaccinations & social services?
Week of March 8, 2021
- University marks one year of pandemic, optimism grows
- Feelings about scientists a factor in COVID‐19 attitudes, behaviors
- U-M’s partnerships, initiatives in Detroit on the rise during pandemic
Week of March 1, 2021
- Plastic face shields add little protection to face masks, study finds
- Parents depressed by pandemic had negative impact on kids’ education, well-being
- WSU Psychiatry developing statewide mental health program to address stress among first responders and their families
- Alumnus plays role in vaccine development
Week of February 22, 2021
- Via Crain’s Detroit: Michigan’s top executives see economic optimism, return to in-person work in next 6 months
- Common vaccine terms and definitions: U-M experts discuss
- Survey reveals racial, political differences in COVID-19 responses
- U-M Center for RNA Biomedicine hosts Moderna vaccine seminar
- Safety, efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines addressed in employee town hall
- Using air purification to protect against COVID-19 on campus
- A remedy for COVID-19 learning loss?
- Michigan schools shifting to provide in-person instruction
- Wayne State University College of Education researchers report new findings about the relationship between attendance and reading and returning to school after COVID-19
Week of February 15, 2021
- Students, faculty assist Detroit’s vaccination effort
- Ask the Expert: New COVID strains and double masks
- Zinc may help with fertility during COVID-19 pandemic, researchers report
- Via Lansing State Journal: MSU researcher and pharmaceutical company developing cannabis-based drug to fight COVID-19 inflammation
- Segregation, income disparity fueled high COVID-19 numbers
Week of February 8, 2021
- Study exploring role of Vitamin D deficiency in COVID clinical outcomes reveals surprising results
- Virtual care: The alternative to a doctor’s office visit gains in popularity during pandemic
- Packaging alum helping with COVID-19 therapeutics and vaccines
- Study underscores need for stimulus support to vulnerable groups
- WSU research team developing AI model to aid in early detection of SARS-CoV2 in children
- 1918 influenza provides warning for potential future pandemic reemergence
- As pandemic still rages, online learners hungry to find purpose, meaning in life
Week of February 1, 2021
- School of Medicine researcher continues work with COVID-19 blood plasma trials, seeks participants
- Many older Americans with COVID-19 lack ability to isolate at home
- Black Michiganders with COVID-19 suffer worse health, socioeconomic outcomes than whites
Week of January 25, 2021
- Via the Detroit News: Opinion: COVID-19 vaccine is a game-changer that can stop the pandemic
- Via WDET: COVID Update: New Variants Complicate Future of Pandemic in Michigan
- COVID-19 Variants: What Do New Mutations to SARS-CoV-2 Mean?
- Ask the Expert: Medical Distrust in Black Communities
- County by county, study shows social inequality’s role in COVID-19’s toll
- Strict public health measures during holidays likely saved lives in Michigan, U-M researchers say
Week of January 18, 2021
- Watch a replay: WSU Vaccine Town Hall
- Hospitals should not restrict parent visitation at child’s bedside, say U-M researchers
Week of January 11, 2021
- Five things to know about the COVID-19 vaccines
- WSU seeks volunteers for clinical trial of COVID-19 vaccine candidate
- Vector platform technology used in COVID-19 vaccine candidate
- Redefining Art during COVID-19
- Museum scientists: Prepare for next pandemic now by preserving animal specimens in natural history collections
Week of January 4, 2021
- Via Detroit News: Wayne State hospital students, faculty get COVID-19 vaccines
- Via WDET: Health Experts Answer Your Questions About COVID-19 Vaccines
- U-M infectious disease expert Arnold Monto will address COVID-19 vaccines
- Black business owners, entrepreneurs left out of small business coronavirus support
- Out-of-hospital cardiac arrests increased during pandemic
- Faculty Voice: On Ethical Candor
- Ask the Expert: Our Immune System and COVID-19
- Concern about loved ones might motivate people to mask up, get vaccine
- ‘Take the Mic’ contest taps community creativity to fight COVID-19
- New Report: 200% increase in Remote Schooling during pandemic
- Soderbergh donation, state support drives expansion of Wayne Health/WSU/Ford mobile COVID testing program; mobile vaccine distribution in the works
- Ask the Expert: Counterfeit Products and COVID-19
- HoloLens2 for Nursing: ‘Hands-on’ learning during pandemic and beyond
- Across prison walls: Connection between U-M students, incarcerated artists withstands pandemic
Week of December 21, 2020
- Your COVID-19 Vaccine questions answered by an expert
- U-M publishes free guides packed with advice and wisdom from COVID-19 patients, caregivers
- Student View: Not What I Expected
- Holiday stress: U-M psychologist says manage expectations
- XR Initiative at 1: Milestones met as pandemic brings new challenges, opportunities
- Dozens of nurses to graduate, enter workforce at critical time
Week of December 14, 2020
Week of December 7, 2020
- MSU to test wastewater statewide for early COVID-19 detection
- Exposure to coronavirus explains racial disparities in COVID-19 mortality rates
- Ask the Expert: Coping with depression during the holidays
- Pandemic spurs even more online shopping, forcing retailer fixes, flexibility and innovation amid holiday
- Dentistry during COVID-19: Engineering analysis offers guidelines to reduce exposure
- Profiles in Warrior Strong highlight campus successes during the pandemic
- More responsive COVID-19 wastewater test developed
Week of November 30, 2020
- Ask the Expert: How will COVID-19 vaccines get from factories to pharmacies?
- Conversational assistants could be used to improve African American health around COVID-19
- U-M infectious disease expert Arnold Monto will address COVID-19 vaccine development on December 2
- Via Michigan Chronicle: Michigan Racial Disparities Task Force releases interin COVID-19 report
- Ask the Expert: Managing anxiety, stress through the holiday
Week of November 23, 2020
- The W Pantry adapts services, expands support during pandemic
- How chaplains in the US are helping deal with existential crises during a pandemic
- More than half of adults over 50 say they’ll get COVID-19 vaccination, but many want to wait
- Majority of Detroiters say they’re unlikely to get COVID-19 vaccine, U-M survey says
- U-M economists: Michigan slowly emerges from COVID-19 recession, income inequality concerns rise
- U-M, community partners tackle energy insecurity in three Detroit neighborhoods
Week of November 16, 2020
- Ask the Expert: Light, Seasonal Affective Disorder and COVID
- U-M economists see US growth slowing until coronavirus vaccine becomes broadly available
- Wayne State to provide tech-enabled health care for Detroit’s low-income seniors
- COVID-19 Vaccine Trial Volunteers Explain Why They Signed Up
- MSU partners to meet health care needs of rural communities
- Global health supply chains face unprecedented stresses in time of unprecedented need
- Racism, election overtake COVID-19 as ‘iffy’ news on popular social sites
Week of November 9, 2020
- How schools can reduce parents' anxiety during the pandemic
- COVID app pilot leads to early statewide delivery
- Nature journal highlights student work to prevent spread of COVID-19 in residential care
- Theatre management student works on study to help theatres, art centers and cultural organizations understand audience readiness to return
Week of November 2, 2020
- Machine learning helps hunt for COVID-19 therapies
- COVID-19 food delivery program enlists Warriors
- Faculty Voice: How to use quarantining and testing for safer holiday travel
- WSU/Karmanos team secure PCORI grant to fund community involvement in COVID-19 research
- Via Huron Daily Tribune: Michigan health officials discuss steep increases in COVID cases
- Pandemic exposed weakness in ensuring healthy food access in child care
Week of October 26, 2020
- U-M researchers, others examine ways to scale up COVID-19 testing to meet demand
- Personal cold plasma ‘air curtain’ design for COVID-19 protection moves forward
- Faculty Voice: Limiting collateral damage of COVID-19
- Untangling the complicated relationship of health, economy during COVID-19 restrictions
Week of October 19, 2020
- Ask the expert: How a COVID-19 vaccine may look different than others
- Ford donates 50k disposable masks to MSU
- African Americans, those with type 2 diabetes, kidney disease at higher risk of COVID-19 hospitalization
- Michiganders with COVID-19 experienced a double whammy of prolonged illness, economic distress
- WSU team’s study shows COVID-19 viral load declined as pandemic progressed
- U-M epidemiologist Arnold Monto to lead COVID-19 vaccine hearings
- The show must go on: Michigan Marching Band goes virtual
Week of October 12, 2020
- MSU leads the way with new COVID-19 exposure notification app
- WSU Public history project illuminates pandemics of the past
- Ask the Expert: How vaccines are created
- Free COVID-19 testing at the Campus Health Center for all WSU faculty, staff and students
Week of October 5, 2020
- Stay-at-home orders cut noise exposure nearly in half
- WSU College of Behavioral Health and Justice, School of Medicine and Wayne County develop toolkit of COVID-19 mitigation strategies for MI county jails
- Ask the Expert: How COVID-19 can affect eating disorders
- Rising consumer sentiment amid growing uncertainty
- 5 tips to manage pandemic stress during the winter
- WSU signs on to Detroit Regional Talent Compact, roadmap to addressing alarming education data and COVID-19 disrupt
- Ask the Expert: Trump, COVID-19 and the 25th Amendment
Week of September 28, 2020
- Pandemic takeaway: Time to waive GRE requirement for public health degrees
- Faculty Voice: Advice for supply chain leadership to emerge from COVID-19
- U-M publishes guidelines for ongoing COVID-19-related responses and strategies
- New immunology study of U-M employees seeks answers on coronavirus reinfections
- New testing protocol could deliver faster, cheaper results for smaller hospitals
- Dentistry survey examines essential workers’ views on COVID-19
- Last-resort life support option helped majority of critically ill COVID-19 patients survive
- Via Detroit News: Michigan's racial disparity disappears in new virus cases
- Display it, Don't spray it: Mask effectiveness video
- Via Detroit Free Press: MSU, U-M, Wayne State presidents: In-person classes likely won't resume until fall 2021
Week of September 21, 2020
- New data on COVID-19 dashboard offers clearer picture of virus
- Where are the patient advocates? The negative effect of social isolation on older patient care during COVID-19
- Ramaswamy: Response to pandemic speeds, shifts latest industrial revolution
- Ask the Expert: What's in store for retailers during the pandemic?
- Ask the Expert: Seasonal economics of food during the pandemic
- How a COVID-19 app built at U-M is helping businesses stay open
- Oakland County’s economy hit during pandemic, but it’s well-positioned for recovery
- Free flu shots available, required for all currently enrolled WSU students
Week of September 14, 2020
- Loneliness doubled among older adults in early months of COVID-19, U-M poll shows
- Mask Up, WSU
- Caution and connection in in-person classes during COVID-19
- Parents get ‘incomplete’ grade on pandemic homeschooling
Week of September 7, 2020
- Testing the deceased could provide additional surveillance methods during pandemic, study shows
- From saliva to sewers: MSU fights COVID-19
- Student treasures musical outlet during pandemic as member of national orchestra
- U-M class tackles business-government rift, a topic magnified amid pandemic, protest and election
Week of August 31, 2020
- Masks are MSU's best COVID-19 defense
- Early COVID-19 news coverage amplified political divide
- U-M researchers look for coronavirus in campus environment, potential links to infection risks
- How parents and students can survive "college from home"
Week of August 24, 2020
- College COVID-19 pandemic apps should follow best practices for privacy, ethical computing
- Wayne Law professor, other legal experts find U.S. policy response to COVID-19 dangerously lacking
- U-M spinout Asalyxa Bio developing inflammatory treatment platform, aiding COVID-19 patients
- Staying green during a pandemic: U-M dining halls to feature compostable takeout containers
- Responding to COVID-19 with innovation and compassion
- Pandemic pilot: Honors College and Microsoft-Quicken collaboration takes off
- Take care: Warrior Wellness goes virtual
- Faculty voice: Honoring the protocols
Week of August 17, 2020
- Doctors on call: Study shows impact of telemedicine during COVID-19
- Machine learning model finds SARS COV2 growing more infectious
- COVID poses hardships for people with substance abuse problems
- Free support programs to help Michigan's K-12 school districts
- MSU continues to answer the call for PPE
- Safe busing during COVID-19: The science behind U-M’s changes
- Coronavirus deaths in Honduras linked to younger individuals, preexisting medical conditions
- COVID-19 won’t stop 41st annual Detroit Jazz Festival from keeping the beat
- Researchers study how COVID-19 pandemic is affecting language
Week of August 10, 2020
- Research shows costly failure to coordinate COVID-19 response
- Keeping it Clean: Number of DIY outdoor handwashing stations increases across area
- Responding to COVID-19 with innovation and compassion
- Price: Massive, rapid vaccine production will require firms to share information
- Age discrimination seen @Twitter during #COVID19 pandemic
- Which workers will be required to get a coronavirus vaccine when it’s available?
- Online Toolkits provide faculty, academic staff with webcams and headsets for fall
- MSU Center for Anti-Counterfeiting and Product Protection supports PSA for fraudulent PPE
- Four ways veterinary medicine is fighting COVID-19
- Guidelines issued for academic restart at WSU
Week of August 3, 2020
- Voting by mail, open meetings, banking: Students help communities with COVID-19 challenges
- Study: How COVID-19 pandemic affecting language and communication
- First national review shows COVID-19 tests are accurate
- In short supply: Using AI to navigate out of a COVID treatment supply issue
- Gordon: COVID-19 Implications for the sharing economy companies
- Student-run nonprofit provides hundreds of excess medical supplies to Ann Arbor hospitals
- Wayne State University, Merit Network partner for Michigan Moonshot broadband planning and expansion efforts
- Campus buildings’ air quality safety regularly monitored during coronavirus pandemic
- Undergraduate application goes live with test-optional admission pathway
- Center for Anti-Counterfeiting and Product Protection (A-CAPP) supports PSA about fraudulent PPE
- Four ways vet medicine is fighting COVID-19
- How to get a better workout during a pandemic
Week of July 27, 2020
- Martin: COVID-19 testing, immunity and what we know
- Telehealth bridges and highlights rural health disparities
- Ladson: Epidemic meets pandemic
- Spartans Will to give and help students with financial hardships
- Tuition benefits keep academic goals in reach
- Via The Conversation: How talking about the coronavirus as an enemy combatant can backfire
- Local government leaders in Michigan generally back expanded absentee voting, other ballot reforms
Week of July 20, 2020
- Do the math: Mask use, social distancing leads to shorter lockdown, lower death rate
- Buxton: Coronavirus – What pregnant women should know
- Via The Conversation: How Canada compares to other countries on COVID-19 cases and deaths
- How career fatigue is shaping the future of jobs
- What happens if eviction moratoriums expire across the US?
- People ‘fly to quality’ news on social sites when faced with uncertainty
- 3D Molecule Viewer app helps pharmacy students learn on campus or at home
- WSU charts path to safe dining, retail experience
- New installation at Broad Art showcases stories of care amid pandemic
Week of July 13, 2020
- Via Detroit News: Opinion: Don’t let other health care issues slide during pandemic
- Local Government COVID-19 Fiscal Strategy and Resource Guide
- Drug that calms ‘cytokine storm’ linked to lower risk of death among COVID-19 patients on ventilators
- U-M, state of Michigan surveying coronavirus survivors to inform future response to pandemic
- Drone-based health care delivery ‘no longer a theoretical idea’
- Spartan undergrads serve as essential workers
- Simultaneous, reinforcing policy failures led to Flint water crisis, providing lessons during pandemic
- Arnold Monto: Should we worry about airborne coronavirus?
- Subcommittee lays out coronavirus protocols for WSU Athletics
Week of July 6, 2020
- Machine learning model finds COVID-19 growing more infectious
- COVID-19 survey work builds on U-M researcher’s projects in Mozambique
- U-M awards grants to address poverty, impact of COVID-19 across Midwest
- Olga Yakusheva: Coronavirus quarantine – The cure is not worse than the disease
- CHC Patient Portal reduces visit times and enables safer visits
Week of June 29, 2020
- Wayne State researchers receive NSF funding to develop COVID-19 risk-prediction system
- WSU Public Health Subcommittee offers current guidelines for phased campus return
- WSU, ACCESS, Ford Coalition expands mobile COVID-19 testing; effort tests more than 10,000
- Benefits, learning tools and other free resources to cope with the pandemic
- Free webinar: Mental Health & Suicide Prevention During the Coronavirus Pandemic
- Wayne State researcher launches community survey to assess impact of COVID-19 on community’s health habits
- Researchers return to work on campus
- Faculty, staff donate more than 22,000 hours toward COVID-19 sick-leave pool
- Task force creates pandemic toolkit for serving children with autism
Week of June 22, 2020
- Reuther Library launches "Community Archive: COVID-19 Experiences"
- Warrior Safe is Warrior Strong: Guidelines, plans in place for students
- Five ways the world is better at dealing with a pandemic than in 1918
- Michigan local government leaders report widespread crisis-level impacts from COVID-19 pandemic
- U-M will offer in-person classes this fall, guided by public health experts
- High resolution proteins built to fight COVID-19
- How teachers can use social media to improve learning this year
- Understanding protein interactions for COVID-19 treatments
Week of June 15, 2020
- U-M med students support homeless shelters with critical supplies
- Ilitch School adds new M.B.A. concentrations in healthcare supply chain management and digital/business analytics
- 'Get Yourself Tested' at the Campus Health Center
- Summer interns partner with Social Work researcher to explore the effects of COVID-19 on older Detroiters
- Engineering course challenges students to create tech solutions for COVID-19
- Future of UK’s health care system uncertain as Brexit moves forward amid COVID-19
- India’s coronavirus cases increase as national government relaxes rules
- U-M alum launches startup, pivots from prostate diagnostics to COVID-19 testing
- Pandemic-driven changes to the supply chain
- Lindsay: Caring for COVID-19 patients
- U-M ecologists call for protection of scientific diversity during and after pandemic
Week of June 8, 2020
- From Spanish Flu to COVID-19
- Webinar: Mindfulness techniques to cope with effects of coronavirus pandemic
- Four ways to be a better news consumer in a pandemic
- Student Incubator optiMize funds COVID-19 Community Aid Efforts
- Protecting farm workers during COVID-19
- New app studies how social distancing affects biological clocks
- Foster care & child well-being: insights in time of COVID-19
- Expanded partnership between MSU and Henry Ford Health System works to eliminate health disparities in health care
- COVID-19 can't stop community-engaged learning
- Ilitch School offers new healthcare supply chain management course for fall 2020
- How rod-shaped particles might distract an out-of-control COVID immune response
- Sounds of sickness: Perceptions of coughs, sneezes not diagnosed accurately
- How COVID-19 impacts children in the criminal justice system
- Crisis communication course studies developing pandemic response
- Mobile COVID-19 testing program comes to Downtown Boxing Gym via WSU, ACCESS, WSU Physician Group and Ford
- Nursing takes the lead in caring for Wayne State community during pandemic
- Pride teach-out explores how COVID-19 has impacted LGBTQ communities
- Pandemic roils retail landscape, spurs innovations
- Local groups cooperate to provide testing for at-risk communities
- Online learning vs. classroom learning
- Ask the Expert: COVID-19 testing
Week of June 1, 2020
- Coronavirus pandemic worsens food insecurity for low-income adults
- Latin America is now the coronavirus epicenter
- Web app, dashboard from U-M to inform Michiganders’ return to work
- MSU faculty awarded grants for COVID-19 research
- Economy expected to improve but remain distressed
- Deerfield commits up to $130M to commercialize U-M drug discovery
- Understanding how work environment can change pandemic attitudes
- WSU Professor and EMU Researcher spouse publish high-impact research on COVID-19 treatment possibility
- Scientific Animations Without Borders launches pgm to understand secondary COVID-19 economic impacts
Week of May 25, 2020
- Wayne student leads systematic review of med remdesivir for COVID care
- Wayne State team publishes in CDC journal first report of C. diff infections in COVID-19 patients
- Local groups cooperate to provide COVID-19 testing in at-risk communities
- Program director shares how she’s keeping medical students engaged in the face of COVID-19 restrictions
- New app calculates risk of delaying cancer care during pandemic
- Wayne State HIGH Program delivers grab-and-go bags to Neighborhood Service Organization amid COVID-19 crisis
- More than 4 in 10 Detroiters have lost jobs during pandemic
- Hollenbeck: Making Zoom calls effective
Week of May 18, 2020
- Via Bridge: Opinion | How Michigan universities are collaborating to continue K-12 learning
- New video, website explain coronavirus for kids
- WSUPD conducts senior wellness checks, delivers food during COVID-19 pandemic
- Feeling fatigued from Zoom? Give your brain a break
- Ph.D. candidate creates no-touch thermometers to address shortage
- Chinese WSU faculty, community pool resources to donate 50,000 pieces of PPE
- 2020 Humanities Clinic supports community partners battling COVID-19
- Riana Anderson: Surviving the coronavirus while black – Pandemic’s heavy toll on African American mental health
- Rick Neitzel: 5 steps employers, employees need to take to reopen businesses
- Ask the Expert: How can employees care for their mental health while working from home?
- Ask the Expert: What is Contact Tracing?
- Ask the Expert: What happens if Trump and Pence both catch COVID-19?
- Ask the Expert: Sleep and stress during a crisis
- How to identify patients most at risk from COVID-19 through nanotechnology
- WSU alumna creates virtual course for Saudi physicians to help combat COVID-19
- U-M economists sharing forecast, government revenue estimates with Michigan lawmakers
- Helping Michigan families stay home with free online series
- Contact tracing: Use volunteers or paid public health corps?
Week of May 11, 2020
- Via WDET: Wayne State Study Offers Guide to Reopening Businesses Safely
- What the coronavirus crisis reveals about vulnerable populations behind bars and on the streets
- Why have nursing homes been hit so hard by the coronavirus?
- Master’s student enlisted as a contact tracer in the fight against COVID
- Even before COVID-19, many adults over 50 lacked stable food supply, didn’t use assistance
- MSU stresses importance of PPE in photo and video shoots
- Detroit housing shortage, evictions set stage for COVID-19 housing crisis
- Advancing health equity for older Americans receiving medicaid
- Pandemic’s impact on economic behavior
- WSU Psychiatry extends free mental health service to state's police, firefighters and immediate families
- U-M researchers advance antibody test development to aid in the international fight against COVID-19
- Operation Warp Speed targets a COVID-19 vaccine by January; much still unknown
- Wayne State student organization advocates for water restoration in Detroit homes
- Everyone vs. COVID-19: U-M scientists need public’s help to understand and fight coronavirus
- Wayne State spinoff Advaita Bioinformatics identifies generic drug shown to be effective against COVID-19
- Why Hispanics are at higher risk to suffer health, economic consequences
- Wastewater may help predict the next COVID-19 outbreak
- Mapping a virus: Visualizing COVID-19 in Michigan
- Delivery robots help Ann Arbor restaurants weather COVID crisis
Week of May 4, 2020
- Via WXYZ Detroit: MSU, Wayne State medical students deliver masks, face shields to Detroit nursing homes
- Street Medicine Detroit creates field hand-washing stations for Detroit’s homeless community
- COVID-19 era offers proving ground for new business models—for better or worse
- U-M-approved face shield design guides makers addressing the PPE shortage through 3D printing
- Free program supports educators in remote teaching
- Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research launches new repository for COVID-19 data
- Reopening economy poses challenges and risks, might not achieve intended aims
- Economic woes create more marital disagreements
- Update from Big Ten Conference: Suspension through June 1, 2020
- New physician assistant program addresses rising need for health care workers
- Michigan poverty map shows economic security by county
- Moving MSU online: behind the scenes
- Media tapping Wayne State experts for perspective on coronavirus pandemic
Week of April 27, 2020
- Government aid helps counteract COVID-19’s economic damage, more could be needed
- Game theory and COVID-19: Major defense project pivots to explore how to coordinate safe behavior
- COVID-19 shocks food supply chain, spurs creativity and search for resiliency
- Lethargic global response to COVID-19: How the human brain’s failure to assess abstract threats cost us dearly
- Efforts to decontaminate PPE expand with VHP process
- Using ComArtSci Computer Power to Understand COVID-19
- The COVID-19 infodemic: combatting dangerous misinformation on social media
- U-M survey: 1 in 5 Detroiters will be out of money in 3 months because of COVID-19
- Via WDET: Six Detroit Artists. One Global Experience. Introducing “COVID Diaries: Stories of Resilience.”
Week of April 20, 2020
- Via WIRED: In One Hospital, Finding Humanity in an Inhuman Crisis
- Researchers shift focus to COVID-19
- How COVID-19 Prompted a Research Pivot for Two Surgeon-Scientists
- Without protections, watch out for unintended consequences of COVID-19 immunity tests
- Coping with COVID-19: Adults turn to alcohol, marijuana
- Lab-on-a-chip COVID-19 antibody test could offer rapid, accurate results
- On the front lines: Nursing students and alumni fight COVID-19
- University to freeze tuition in response to pandemic
- Coronavirus: Release of older at risk prisoners with violent records poses little crime risk
- Restoring consumer confidence
- Earth Day @ 50: Insights from a pandemic
- MSU medical students provide services to frontline health care workers
- MSU program provides free support to caregivers of people with autism
- Wayne State to offer test-optional admission requirement for new fall 2020 freshman applicants
- Surviving or thriving? Enduring COVID-19 as an introvert and extrovert
Week of April 13, 2020
- Via CNN: Urgent Push to Address Racial Disparity in COVID-19 Cases
- Via Vox: Coronavirus is causing a mental health crisis. Here’s how to fight it.
- WSU opens up residence hall for Henry Ford, DMC frontline clinicians
- U-M helping Detroit’s small businesses locate, navigate coronavirus-related financial aid
- Prisons, domestic violence and COVID-19
- WSUPG, WSU and ACCESS join City of Detroit in screening at Fairgrounds
- MSU faculty member discusses COVID-19 and asthma
- Ford, WSU, ACCESS launch first mobile COVID-19 testing for MI first responders
- New COVID-19 test delivers results in less than 10 minutes, awaits validation
- Mandated TB vaccination predicts flattened curves for COVID-19 spread
- New process to identify existing drugs for potential COVID-19 treatments
- U-M economists: High jobless rates expected but improvement seen in 2nd half of 2020
- WSU Office of Women’s Health offering resources for pregnant women
- Fight COVID-19 by supporting health care workers, researchers & people in need
Week of April 6, 2020
- National Covid-19 Convalescent Plasma Website For Providers, Patients Launched | MORE: National COVID19 Convalescent Plasma Project
- U-M’s Economic Growth Institute guides small businesses through turmoil, retooling
- Broad College of Business helps companies overcome hiring challenges
- Caring for a vulnerable population during a global pandemic
- Feeling stressed? Take a ‘nature pill,’ says U-M researcher
- MSU researchers adapt COVID19 test without scarce materials
- U-M researchers launch a wide range of efforts to study and address coronavirus pandemic
- Michigan Poison Center at WSU issues reminder about disinfection products
- Tracking COVID19 in wastewater: Sewage surveillance efforts
- Wayne State partners with City of Detroit to launch COVID-19 testing for homeless at shelters
- Sharing knowledge globally in a time of crisis
- 14 Things to Do If Someone You Live With Has COVID-19
- WSU School of Social Work, College of Nursing establish crisis hotline for healthcare workers and first responders fighting the COVID-19 outbreak
- WSU and WSU Physician Group partner to speed point-of-care COVID-19 testing at DMC hospitals
Week of March 30, 2020
- MSU: Supporting Michigan's families, communities and small businesses
- MSU baking process decontaminates masks used for treating COVID-19 patients
- Medical students coordinate child care/home management for COVID-19 front line residents, attending physicians
- Webinar: COVID-19 and Cancer in Metro Detroit: What Cancer Patients, Survivors & Caregivers Need to Know
- MSU health care offers drive-through testing for COVID-19
- Providing food for Michiganders during pandemic
- MSU colleges collaborate to create 3D printed face shields in response to COVID 19 crisis
- U-M professors coordinate international donation efforts from China to Michigan
- Spartan alumni, medical laboratory scientists test for COVID-19
Week of March 23, 2020
- Wayne State University and Detroit health care leaders working to bring COVID-19 vaccines to the metro area
- Ask an expert: how to help kids through coronavirus
- MSU faculty member talks about food safety and COVID-19
- At home during Coronavirus pandemic? U-M offers online courses, exhibits, speakers
- University of Michigan launches in-house COVID-19 test
- Flattening the curve for COVID-19: What does it mean and how can you help?
- Department of Theatre and Dance kicks off virtual company to engage remote audiences
- Comprehensive COVID-19 research guide now available
- Managing anxiety during the COVID-19 outbreak
- Wayne State chemists, pharmacists team up to make hand sanitizer for COVID-19 front line