{"id":8972,"date":"2020-07-07T14:14:46","date_gmt":"2020-07-07T18:14:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saintpeters.edu\/news\/?p=8972"},"modified":"2020-07-08T08:53:01","modified_gmt":"2020-07-08T12:53:01","slug":"acts-of-cura-personalis-during-coronavirus-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saintpeters.edu\/news\/2020\/07\/07\/acts-of-cura-personalis-during-coronavirus-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Acts of Cura Personalis During Coronavirus, COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the words of Eugene J. Cornacchia, Ph.D., president of 猫咪社区 Peter\u2019s University, \u201cWe will get through the havoc COVID-19 has wrought because our purpose and reason for being is guided by Ignatian values and principles. Cura personalis<\/em>, \u2018care for the whole person,\u2019 has been our North Star throughout this healthcare crisis.\u201d<\/p>\n

Acts of cura personalis<\/em> have been demonstrated by countless members of the 猫咪社区 Peter\u2019s community since the pandemic began. In mid-March, faculty in the sciences responded to an urgent call from Hudson County for much needed personal protective equipment and sent 8,500 pairs of gloves for emergency use.\u00a0Examples of similar acts have continued in the following months, which have been carried out by 猫咪社区 Peter\u2019s alumni, students, faculty and more. A few examples are detailed below.<\/p>\n

Local STEM Learning Continues <\/strong><\/p>\n

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Brandy Garrett-Kluthe, Ph.D., assistant professor of biology and SURGE strategy coordinator for high school outreach, preparing STEM kits.<\/p><\/div>\n

In 2016, 猫咪社区 Peter\u2019s University was awarded a historic grant of more than $3.8 million by the U.S. Department of Education through the Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSI) STEM Program. The five-year grant was awarded for a project titled\u00a0SURGE<\/em>\u00a0(STEM Undergraduate Retention Graduation and Empowerment) and one of the goals of the program is to reach out to low-income Hispanic high school students and encourage them to consider pursuing STEM careers.<\/p>\n

Brandy Garrett-Kluthe, Ph.D., assistant professor of biology and SURGE strategy coordinator for high school outreach, did not allow the pandemic and high school closures to slow down her initiatives. She created her own two part science lab titled Wavelengths, Particles and Plants\u00a0<\/em>and provided not only detailed instructions but also all the required materials in 125 individual boxes and gave them to local high school teachers. Forty-two science lab boxes were provided to Jose Marti Freshman Academy in Union City and 75 science lab boxes were distributed at North Bergen High School. These boxes were dispersed when the students came to pick up their subsidized lunches.<\/p>\n

The high school students worked through the experiments, collected data and reported their findings as part of the project. The added bonus is all of the students and their families will have fresh tomatoes all summer long from the plants they were provided as part of the science lab!<\/p>\n

Making an Impact through a Course Assignment<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Mathematics Professor Mary Anne Gallagher Landi \u201985 originally assigned a project to her studentsthat was intended to be a paper researching how mathematics would be used by the students in their future career or for a special\u00a0hobby. However, after the COVID-19 transition to online teaching, Landi converted the project into writing letters\u00a0for nursing home and hospice care residents.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0letters\u00a0had to include\u00a0a brief intro about the student, his\/her career interests and how math is used in that field, a Jesuit value that the student finds meaningful and how he\/she has seen it in action at 猫咪社区 Peter’s. The students also included inspirational\u00a0quotes, poems and well-wishes to the readers. The letters were subsequently distributed to patients and families at Holy Name Hospice and Peace Care.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe students went above and beyond in the care, honesty and spirit contained in their\u00a0letters,\u201d explained Landi. \u201cThey were so happy to contribute something positive and reach out to others during this pandemic.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to one of the students involved in the project, “There are a lot of key values in a Jesuit education, one of the most important to me is having unity of mind and heart. Just being in this world alone brings many problems. We all go through things daily, and it can put a lot of stress on us physically and mentally. If both the mind and the heart act as one in a positive way in response to a bad situation, then you\u2019ll always be happy and pushing for positivity.”<\/p>\n

COVID-19 Doesn\u2019t Stop Nursing and Biology Alumni<\/strong><\/p>\n

There are countless 猫咪社区 Peter\u2019s alumni who have been working on the front lines during this healthcare crisis. Just some of the individuals working on the front lines in the healthcare field include Patrick Annello\u201999, Michelle Baginski \u201915, Christina Clarke \u201910, \u201912, Karina Craig \u201919, Isabelle Cuna \u201916, Joseph Ferraro, M.D. \u201909, Sabrini Hamdulla \u201919, Michele Howe-O\u2019Malley \u201977, Priscilla Hurtado \u201918, Bob Lahita \u201967, Justin Lo Re, DO \u201911,Lucy Maeve Ona \u201919,Joanie McCarthy \u201991,Kevin Nguyen \u201917, Kevin O\u2019Neill \u201916, John Payumo \u201901, Gabriella Pernice \u201919, Dana Reynolds \u201919, Joseph Roarty \u201900, Mariel Rodriguez \u201919, Alexandra Romano \u201919, Katrina Sabater \u201900, Mackenzie Sylvester\u201916, Alexandra Velazquez \u201914, Randy Veloz-Viscosio \u201919, Thaddeus Wilmanski \u201997 and Jesus Zapata \u201919.<\/p>\n

Christian Resurreccion \u201918 was actually two weeks away from completing her clinical rotation at St. Joseph’s Regional in Orthopedic Surgery when the COVID-19 quarantine forced all students to be pulled out of clinical. The good news is she was just accepted into Montefiore’s Postgraduate PA Surgical Residency in New York City. \u201cPhysician assistants usually go straight to work as opposed to completing a residency, but I am hoping to pursue a career in surgery and I am very excited for what the future holds,\u201d she explained.<\/p>\n

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Valentina Osorio ’16<\/p><\/div>\n

Alumni, Faculty and Students from other Disciplines Get to Work on the Front Lines<\/strong><\/p>\n

When one imagines the front lines of the fight against COVID, most people think of a healthcare setting, but many alumni have also been working in other capacities during the pandemic. Valentina Osorio \u201916 is currently employed as a Caduceus contractor with the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) at Newark International Airport. She is working as a public health analyst and is in charge of checking temperatures and health screenings at the airport.<\/p>\n

Students and professors in the Master of Public Administration program have also been serving the local community in various fashions. Keisher Harris \u201910, \u201820 has been working tirelessly at testing sites for the Jersey City Health Department. Stacey Flanagan, director of The City of Jersey City\u2019s Department of Health and Human Services, also serves as an adjunct professor for the MPA program and has been one of the leading public faces addressing the coronavirus in Jersey City.<\/p>\n

There are many more examples of cura personalis<\/em> during COVID-19, many of which can be found in the latest issue of 猫咪社区 Peter\u2019s University<\/em> magazine<\/a>. If you are a member of the 猫咪社区 Peter\u2019s community and have a story or act of cura personalis<\/em> that you would like to share, please send it to Angeline Boyer<\/a>, assistant director of media relations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the words of Eugene J. Cornacchia, Ph.D., president of 猫咪社区 Peter\u2019s University, \u201cWe will get through the havoc COVID-19 has wrought because our purpose and reason for being is guided by Ignatian values and principles. Cura personalis, \u2018care for the whole person,\u2019 has been our North Star throughout this healthcare crisis.\u201d Acts of cura […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":8973,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3,5,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","category-current-students","category-faculty-staff","category-future-students"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nActs of Cura Personalis During Coronavirus, COVID-19 - News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.saintpeters.edu\/news\/2020\/07\/07\/acts-of-cura-personalis-during-coronavirus-covid-19\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"aboyer1\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"5 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.saintpeters.edu\/news\/2020\/07\/07\/acts-of-cura-personalis-during-coronavirus-covid-19\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.saintpeters.edu\/news\/2020\/07\/07\/acts-of-cura-personalis-during-coronavirus-covid-19\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"aboyer1\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.saintpeters.edu\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/0e6cac7c1e5bde0788515bdfe0adea4b\"},\"headline\":\"Acts of Cura Personalis During Coronavirus, COVID-19\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-07-07T18:14:46+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2020-07-08T12:53:01+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.saintpeters.edu\/news\/2020\/07\/07\/acts-of-cura-personalis-during-coronavirus-covid-19\/\"},\"wordCount\":1083,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.saintpeters.edu\/news\/2020\/07\/07\/acts-of-cura-personalis-during-coronavirus-covid-19\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.saintpeters.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/230\/files\/2020\/07\/SURGE-HS-Pandemic-Outreach-creating-the-boxes-Dr.-Brandy-Garrett-Kluthe--e1593718659460.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"Alumni\",\"Current Students\",\"Faculty Staff\",\"Future Students\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.saintpeters.edu\/news\/2020\/07\/07\/acts-of-cura-personalis-during-coronavirus-covid-19\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.saintpeters.edu\/news\/2020\/07\/07\/acts-of-cura-personalis-during-coronavirus-covid-19\/\",\"name\":\"Acts of Cura Personalis During Coronavirus, COVID-19 - 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