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COVID-19 Special Edition
Pandemic Response by C4E and PCCRC Affiliates

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Dear Colleagues:

On many fronts over the past few months, Purdue and our faculty have been taking the lead and contributing to local, state, national and international responses to the COVID-19 pandemic in areas ranging from analyzing airflow on airplanes to establishing pathways for conducting and processing tests for the virus.

In several areas specific to the environment, affiliates in both the Center for the Environment and the Purdue Climate Change Research Center have made important contributions to Purdue’s response in areas ranging from water and food safety to implications of the pandemic for climate change, food chains and agricultural practices. 

In this week’s special edition, we highlight the critical work being done by our affiliates and encourage you to keep us informed of additional research and related work being done by you and others.
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PCCRC Weighs In: Is This the Perfect Time, or the Worst Time, to Bend the Climate Change Curve?
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Countries, states, and communities around the world are rightly focused on the urgent task of minimizing the impacts of the coronavirus pandemic and thinking about how to plan for an economic recovery—but what are the implications for efforts to address the climate change crisis?  

Here are 6 takeaways from a conversation with experts from Purdue University, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, and republicEn (Energy & Enterprise Initiative).


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Additional Features

 

The Future of Sustainable Travel

For most of us, it has been several months since we’ve traveled anywhere, and though we may be eagerly anticipating our next trip, that travel likely won’t look the same. Jonathon Day, Center affiliate and Associate Professor of HTM has weighed in on the topic of sustainable tourism and what the travel industry may expect in upcoming months. 

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From Cows to People

When you think of COVID-19, the first thing that comes to mind probably isn’t cows. However, that’s exactly the link that Center affiliate and Assistant Professor of Agricultural and Biological Engineering Mohit Verma is exploring to try and increase testing abilities for the novel Coronavirus.

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