Brenau Staff

In Albany, Georgia, an area with one of the highest COVID-19 infection rates per capita in the nation, acute care certification student Rhonda Haynes works as a critical care nurse practitioner at Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital.

Huy Chu, studio art program director and ceramics professor, is going 3D in doing his part in addressing the critical shortage of personal protective equipment for frontline workers of the COVID-19 pandemic. He is making homemade face shields for frontline workers using Brenau’s 3D printers, which he took home when classes moved from on-ground to online.

Brenau University senior fashion design major Jordyn De La Rosa has been busy these past few months finishing up classes to graduate and participating in the Million Mask Challenge, a grassroots effort aimed at addressing the critical shortage of personal protective equipment for frontline workers of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Martis Ferguson, BU ’19, an ICU nurse at Northeast Georgia Medical Center in Gainesville, Georgia, worked in patient logistics at NGMC for about five years before earning his Bachelor of Science in Nursing in May 2019. He was a recipient of the Kay and Douglas Ivester Scholarship awarded annually to deserving health science majors.