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Can colleges pull off widespread coronavirus testing?
Back in March, people began trickling into Calvin University's health center complaining of symptoms such as body aches and sore throats. The students and employees tested negative for the flu, leading campus officials to suspect they'd come down...
Uncertain when campuses can open, colleges make their fall plans flexible
Residential colleges are scrambling to get and provide clarity as to how the COVID-19 pandemic might alter their educational offerings. This guesswork involves questions such as whether campuses will even be allowed to reopen in the fall — and if so, what sorts of...
Americans abroad faced a choice: Come home or stay put for an ‘indefinite period.’ These women stayed.
Charlotte Lau is a self-described “digital nomad.” The 31-year-old American citizen has lived and worked in other countries since graduating with a bachelor’s in international relations roughly a decade ago. Born and raised in New York City, Lau was always fascinated...
Women in health care are already overworked. Where do they turn when the toll of coronavirus hits them?
(iStock; Lily illustration) “We don’t know what to do,” says Catherine Jones, a registered nurse at a Boston-area community health center. As the uncertainty surrounding covid-19 quickly mounted in recent weeks, 30-year-old Jones and her colleagues at their...
How to Save a Dying Language
Solomon Enos The orphan was surveying the sea from atop a lava-rock shrine when he saw them—omens that looked just as his uncle, a kahuna, had foretold. There was a flock of airborne stingrays amid a series of towers, all hovering over a forest floating...
Six-Figure Price Tags Are Coming to Colleges
It took a little more than a decade for the University of Chicago to reinvent itself, going from a well-regarded but largely regional school to an extremely selective university with national prestige. In 2006, the Hyde Park university admitted more than a third of...