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Raphael Thomadsen, professor of marketing

Chancellor Andrew D. Martin reflects in a blog post on the difficulties of this past year and shares a message of hope and gratitude as we head into Thanksgiving.

Caitlyn Collins, assistant professor of sociology

Rachel Sachs, associate professor of law

Rachel Sachs, associate professor of law

Rachel Sachs, associate professor of law

Robert W. Duffy remembers Chancellor Emeritus William H. Danforth. “In turn, the institution was rewarded by having this exceptional man— this great man — in its midst, a man who stood tall because he was tall, not because he set out to be tall or proclaimed his stature as tall, but because he was tall, and exceptional,” Duffy writes.

Sarah Elgin, the Viktor Hamburger Professor Emerita in Arts & Sciences, discusses ideas for engaging undergraduate students in hands-on science from day one and how to reach a wider range of college students on a national scale.

Health care providers know plenty about working hard. And we are not strangers to burnout. Even before Covid-19 hit the United States, our health care system was in trouble. Many emergency departments were overflowing, too often workers were being asked to do more with less, and average Americans couldn’t afford their ever-rising insurance deductibles and premiums, writes Jessica Gold.

Marie Griffith, director of the John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics, writes about the work we Americans still have to do in the wake of the presidential election. “While America is not unique in its sins as a country, we are unique in our refusal to acknowledge them.”