We spent $4.6 trillion fighting covid-19. Meanwhile, antibiotic-resistant bacteria killed 1.27 million people in 2019 alone — more than HIV or malaria individually, and we’ve invested significantly...

I began my undergraduate career at Providence College in Rhode Island, six hours away from home, at the height of the covid-19 pandemic in 2020. Living by myself in a single dorm room, I found myself...

I've only been a senior for a couple of weeks, but some-times when I walk around on campus, I feel like a freshman all over again. For me, the fall of freshman year was all about meeting new people and...

Lenasia, South Africa — When schools shut down during the height of the pandemic in 2020, teachers at Impala Crescent Primary School, like many educators, had to quickly learn how to continue teaching...

Johannesburg, South Africa – Each Sunday, on the rooftop deck of a parking garage in the Rosebank Mall, over 200 traders set up tables to sell goods. After being hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic, these...

Johannesburg, South Africa — At the entrance to Collector’s Treasury, a bookstore in the Braamfontein neighborhood of Johannesburg, customers are greeted with a book-lined cement staircase and that...

University-wide “budget adjustments” have amounted to belt-tightening across the university, and the responsibility for implementing those adjustments is in the hands of deans, chairs and other divisional...

Sometimes I think about what my life would be like if the coronavirus pandemic never existed.  It is amazing to think that it has changed the course of everyone’s lives, no matter where they live or...

For the first time in what seems a lifetime, but is just over a year, we can see a glimmer of hope for better times ahead, even as we watch other countries experience the dire conditions we went through...

St. Joe’s contacted us, saying the pandemic’s getting out of hand. And then we all went virtual. -Walt Bryz-Gornia ’21 Undergraduate Student When I was stuck in my house and my mom was actually...