To help students develop some of the skills that Ku felt couldn’t be taught in a traditional classroom, in 2014 he created the Innovation and Design Application (IDeA) program at Jefferson. Ku and lab co-founder and managing director Robert Pugliese, an emergency-medicine clinical pharmacist by training, explain that caesarean sections on patients with uterine fibroid tumors are tricky because the benign tumors can hemorrhage if nicked by a scalpel. Ku sits at the back of an Airstream trailer that brings health-care services to vulnerable Philadelphia neighborhoods. Trouver un designer. “It was a total reset,” he says. Pre-pandemic, Ku hauled the 26-foot trailer behind his Subaru to vulnerable neighborhoods, where, in partnership with community groups, lab members offered services such as health screenings, HIV testing, activities for kids in neglected playgrounds or vacant lots, and a nutrition-education program that includes cooking demonstrations and meal kits. Additional contributors to the project include: Community Advocates Program promotes public health expectations on campus, Engineering and artificial intelligence combine to safeguard COVID-19 patients, University focuses on health and safety as undergraduates return to campus, Princeton Playbook public health campaign aims to limit spread of COVID-19 on campus, University will support COVID-19 vaccine efforts by hosting clinics for campus community, In pandemic, Princeton graduate students and faculty raced to create innovative protections for hospital staff, Spring 2021 update: All enrolled students invited to campus, Princeton University will open COVID-19 testing laboratory for campus community, Graduate School expands sixth-year funding program to support Ph.D. students during the pandemic, Campus Advocates will help promote University health and safety guidelines, Princeton researchers report high level of compliance with on-campus health and safety protocols, University completes first week of asymptomatic testing protocol, ‘reassuring’ initial results support public health measures, University to launch asymptomatic COVID-19 testing protocol for on-campus students, faculty, researchers, staff, Fall 2020 update: Undergraduate education to be fully remote, Princeton announces plan for fall 2020, guidelines for undergraduates returning to campus, President Eisgruber’s message to University community about 2020-21 academic year, As Princeton looks toward fall decision, summer sees preliminary phased resumption across the University, From contact tracing to contactless dining: Over 40 working groups prepare for a range of possibilities for Princeton’s fall semester, In light of challenges presented by COVID-19, Princeton suspends undergraduate standardized testing requirement and moves to one application deadline for the 2020-21 first-year admission cycle, Dr. Melissa Marks named next director of medical services at Princeton’s University Health Services, President Eisgruber to University Community: At these times of economic stress, our priorities are clear — We need to invest in the quality of our teaching and research, University evaluating teaching and research plans, campus operations for next academic year, Princeton University is working to ensure compliance with Governor Murphy’s state-wide 'stay at home' order to slow spread of COVID-19, University urges students, faculty and staff to notify University Health Services of all COVID-19 tests by any health care provider in any jurisdiction, Equal Opportunity Policy and Nondiscrimination Statement.