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Lesson Materials
April 27 - Coronavirus: Where are the Solutions
Dr. Ellen Arnold, Dr. Sean Kay, and Dr. Randy Quaye host a panel discussion, where they field questions about how the country and world can come together and find solutions to the COVID-19 outbreak.
Video Lecture
Assigned Readings
April 29: COVID Connection: The Ecology of a Pandemic
Dr. Anderson will discuss the coronavirus from the perspective of a practicing ecologist, highlighting the web of interactions between viral biology, wildlife, land-use change, and human behavior that triggered the current pandemic. For more information check out this brief summary of the issue from Dr. Anderson.
Video Lecture:
Assigned Readings
Additional Resources
Want to learn more? Below are other articles, videos, infographics, etc. that will provide further information on this week's topics.
April 27 - Coronavirus: Where are the Solutions
April 29: COVID Connection: The Ecology of a Pandemic
Recommended Databases
Can't get enough? These databases have up-to-date scientific and academic research that can help you dig much deeper into any topic. Please note that OWU login credentials are required unless the resource is marked as open access. Please check your local public library for more resources.
April 27 - Coronavirus: Where are the Solutions
- Social Sciences Citation Index This link opens in a new windowProvides access to current bibliographic information and cited references, covering more than 1700 of the world's leading social sciences journals in a broad range of disciplines. It also covers individually selected, relevant items from leading natural and physical science journals. The ISI Citation Databases collectively index more than 8,000 high quality, peer-reviewed journals cover-to-cover, providing complete bibliographic data, searchable author abstracts (science and social sciences), and cited references. Researchers can search the citation data (the footnotes of each article), taking a known, relevant paper and finding other, more recent papers that cite it.
- International Political Science Abstracts This link opens in a new windowCovers the scholarly research in political science and related disciplines.
April 29: COVID Connection: The Ecology of a Pandemic
- Biosis Previews This link opens in a new windowMonitors international journals representing virtually every life science discipline, including agriculture, biochemistry, biotechnology, botany, ecology, environment, microbiology, neurology, pharmacology, public health.
- Environment Complete This link opens in a new windowCovers applicable areas of agriculture, ecosystem ecology, energy, natural resources, marine & freshwater science, geography, pollution & waste management, environmental technology, environmental law, public policy, social impacts, urban planning, and more.
- PLOS (Public Library of Science)Includes several open access journals that focus on all areas of science and medicine.
Search Terms
Knowing what terms to use to search for resources on COVID19 is half the battle. For this week's lectures, we would recommend starting with the following keywords.
April 27 - Coronavirus: Where are the Solutions
- Public Health
- Global Health
- Disease Outbreak Control
- Pandemic Response
- Epidemiology
April 29: COVID Connection: The Ecology of a Pandemic
- Zoonoses
- Viral Spillover
- Bats AND Coronavirus
- Viruses AND Deforestation
- Intermediate Hosts AND Coronavirus
- Wildlife Trade AND Infectious Disease