by Alia Wong | Jul 17, 2020 | education, health care, higher education, lifestyle, parenting
As the number of coronavirus cases surges across the U.S., skepticism is mounting over colleges’ ability to resume campus activity in the fall. Still, as of mid-July, around 55% of colleges were aiming for an in-person fall semester while another 30% were...
by Alia Wong | Jun 16, 2020 | education, health care, higher education, money matters
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...
by Alia Wong | May 18, 2020 | education, health care, higher education
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...
by Alia Wong | Apr 27, 2020 | gender, health care, language & culture, lifestyle
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...
by Alia Wong | Apr 2, 2020 | gender, health care, parenting
(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...
by Alia Wong | Feb 19, 2019 | child development, health care, k-12 education, lifestyle, public schools
Gun violence has killed nearly 1,200 children in the United States since the school massacre in Parkland, Florida, one year ago. Few of these deaths became the focus of the nation’s attention. Maybe that’s because these killings were so mundane, so normal, in the...
