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2020 Vision: A Deeper Understanding of Our Shared Pandemic Experience

Thankfully, it seems that the COVID-19 pandemic is predominately behind us. Though we can now look at it in the rear view, this monumental worldwide crisis has made an indelible mark on us as a people. In addition to the tragic human toll of the virus, in its wake lies a collection of personal and ubiquitous experiences colored by this unique time in our history.

Around the globe, we shared many commonalities—whether it was a sudden switch to working and learning remotely, or changes in our relationships with loved ones, or a yearning to garden or bake. Despite being more isolated than ever before, the feelings and experiences so many of us shared are evidence that we are more alike than we might have thought.

The pandemic provided an opportunity—some would say a responsibility—for scholars to conduct research on its widespread effects. Across the breadth of Adelphi’s academic disciplines, our faculty researchers got to work exploring the ways that COVID-19 was impacting our lives. Their published research is enlightening, and there is no doubt that each reader will find something from their own pandemic experience to relate to in the featured stories grounded in this work.

We also widen our lens to highlight faculty inquiries on a number of other intriguing and groundbreaking topics, and celebrate their academic accomplishments in the form of mentorship of our students, grants that fund new programs and research, and the publication of books on subjects from psychology to suspense fiction.

I’m proud to share our faculty’s extraordinary work with you, and I hope you thoroughly enjoy learning about it.

Christopher Storm, PhD
Provost and Executive Vice President

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