News Clips

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.”

Kathleen Clark, professor of law

Yo-El Ju, MD, associate professor of neurology

Michael Kinch, associate vice chancellor and director, Center for Research Innovation in Business; and professor of radiation oncology

Sociologist Caitlyn Collins in Arts & Sciences writes in a piece for the Harvard Business Review’s Big Ideas series that the child care crisis created by pandemic lockdowns has highlighted the need for the U.S. government to do more to support working parents.

Kimberly Parker, professor of energy, environmental and chemical engineering

Daniel Epps, associate professor of law

William Wallace, the Barbara Murphy Bryant Distinguished Professor of Art History