Responding to COVID

mask assembly research

Amid stay-at-home orders, Rowan’s community of doctors, nurses, engineers, chemists and researchers step up.  They share newly refined designs for a reusable, 3D-printed face mask (above, right). 

Rowan Medicine and Gloucester County public health professionals partner to provide a drive-thru COVID-19 testing site at Rowan College of South Jersey-Gloucester. 

Researchers begin investigating the virus and its effects on the blood-brain barrier (left), the psyche and on society as a whole.

intubation box assembly

When a critical care doctor requests intubation shields to protect her staff, engineering faculty and students produce the first within 24 hours. 

“It’s just a box, but sometimes, it’s the right thing at the right time,” says Francis “Mac” Haas, assistant professor in the Henry M. Rowan College of Engineering.