Free Pre-Thanksgiving Virus Testing for Rowan Students, Employees

To continue efforts to help reduce the spread of COVID-19, Rowan University will offer free coronavirus testing to all students and employees before Thanksgiving Day. Saliva and nasal tests are available to all students starting the week of November 16. Currently, 4,100 students live on Rowan’s campus and approximately 2,000 students live nearby in Glassboro. […]

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The Mind-Body Connection

For some time now, what we think of as modern medicine tended to see little connection between a person’s mental or emotional state and their physical condition. The focus was on the biology and the chemistry. This is understandable both because science got more skilled at seeing, measuring, analyzing, and identifying what happens in the

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Moments in Time

Letter writing has become a lost art over the past half-century, largely due to technological advancements and the immediacy of texts, e-mails and messaging. Classified as a part of the literary genre belles lettres, correspondence can be a reflective style of writing similar to the essay but always the result of an exchange between two

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Our Bubbles

Thanksgiving Past: Up until about 10 years ago, our large extended family of cousins, aunts, uncles, parents and grandparents celebrated Thanksgiving at the family homestead. Living on a farm, we sat down to a meal that spelled the end of another growing season. Thinking back on all the work and effort that went into the

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Researchers Study Coronavirus Response in Prisons and Jails

A more centralized, uniform response to combating the COVID-19 pandemic in American prisons and jails is required to curb the spread across an especially vulnerable incarcerated population, according to new Rutgers University–Camden research. “The American criminal justice system is really a misnomer; it is not a single system, but comprised of thousands of federal, state,

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Inmates, Officers Test Positive; Cumberland Jail is No. 1 in Jersey

Stuart Alterman, attorney for PBA Local 231, last week disclosed that nearly 40 inmates and 11 correctional police officers have tested positive for Covid-19, more than quadrupling numbers from a week prior. According to unnamed sources within the Cumberland County Jail, approximately 39 inmates, 11 officers, and one civilian have tested positive for coronavirus. “The

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