Because her undergraduate students were struggling during the spring semester, Melissa Bopp, associate professor of kinesiology, studied how the pandemic is affecting Penn State students. She found that women were becoming more depressed than men.
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Shaver’s Creek Environmental Center’s AURORA orientation program was redesigned for a virtual format because of the COVID-19 pandemic. AURORA normally runs four outdoor experiences for incoming freshmen prior to the fall semester in wild areas around the nation.
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The Faculty Emergency Assistance Fund acts as a short-term financial bridge to see students through difficult circumstances. Qualifying events include the death of a parent, sudden loss of income, illness, or the inability to secure affordable housing.
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Substance use poses many serious, well-known risks to people’s health, families, and communities. During the COVID-19 pandemic, economic stress, social isolation, and anxiety about the future may deepen the public health emergency posed by substance misuse and addiction.
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Erica Usher serves as the Prevention Supervisor for the Fayette County Drug and Alcohol Commission, where she has been working on the front lines of substance abuse prevention for nearly two decades. Though she is troubled by the scope and magnitude of the opioid crisis, she knows that opioids are a symptom, not the cause of the problem.
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