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Children, teens and adults in neighboring communities depend on the therapists in the Hy Weinberg Center for Communication Disorders for speech-language and hearing evaluations and interventions. The Center has more than 100 speech and hearing client visits per week. The Center is also a clinical training ground for students pursuing a master’s in speech-language pathology…

Social distancing is helping telemedicine become the new normal. What other medical technologies may soon enter the mainstream? A. Hasan Sapci, MD, College of Nursing and Public Health assistant professor, provides some hints.

While adjusting to teaching and learning online, Jennifer Perrone finds hope during the pandemic with the birth of her son.

Throughout these past several weeks, we have continued to define our University's plans for a safe, in-person reopening this coming fall. We all look forward to safely being together again on campus.

Being at home wasn't going to stop Corrada Spatola '20 from making the most of her last semester at 91¹ú²ú. Thanks to the virtual student chats offered by various departments at 91¹ú²ú, she got to interact with her fellow students and learned how to navigate our new normal.

Kirkland Vaughans, PhD ’85, adjunct faculty member in the Gordon F. Derner School of Psychology and director of the Derner Hempstead Child Clinic, is quoted in a New York Times story about healing from the trauma associated with racism.

Stephen Shore, EdD, clinical assistant professor of special education, is quoted in a Spectrum story about autistic scientists who are redefining autism research.

Just before the campus closed due to the coronavirus outbreak in March 2020, the College of Nursing and Public Health (CNPH) rushed to produce a batch of simulation lab training videos over a three-day span “to support our faculty when they moved to an online platform."

K.C. Rondello, MD, clinical associate professor in the College of Nursing and Public Health, shares his expertise in this story in Men's Health.

Damian Stanley, PhD, assistant professor of psychology, is working with colleagues from across the country on an ambitious research project on the psychological and social effects of the pandemic.

Over the past several weeks, 91¹ú²ú's leadership, faculty and staff have been actively preparing for our Fall 2020 semester. We are anxious to welcome you back but are mindful that we must do so in a safe and healthy way.

Edwin-Nikko R. Kabigting, PhD, an assistant professor at 91¹ú²ú's College of Nursing and Public Health, has been awarded the 2020 International Consortium of Parse Scholars Humanbecoming Research Award for his research proposal "Feeling Betrayed: A Parsesciencing Inquiry."

Alumna Viktoriya Laskina, a registered nurse who is working on the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic, has been given the DAISY Award for Extraordinary Nurses by Mount Sinai Queens Hospital as reported by QNS.

On March 2, 2020, the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders (CSD) held a ribbon-cutting ceremony to celebrate the opening of its new Center for Research. But students and faculty eager to use the center would have to wait because the campus closed for the remainder of the spring semester due to COVID-19.