![Photo by Tommy LaVergne](/sites/g/files/bxs4576/files/styles/resize_350/public/2021-12/MedinaGRID.jpg?itok=n7vQyP9y)
When the pandemic put a pause on my professional life, I turned my energies toward home and discovered a new pleasure in gardening....
![Illustration by John W. Tomac](/sites/g/files/bxs4576/files/styles/resize_350/public/2021-12/TyerGRID.jpg?itok=TFN3YErj)
Hunkered down and busier than ever covering the pandemic, I’m missing my annual West Texas river adventure with friends....
![Illustration by Alex Eben Meyer](/sites/g/files/bxs4576/files/styles/resize_350/public/2021-12/AEM_LisaGray.jpg?itok=_8mevFEY)
An anthem of my student days — the Talking Heads’ “Once in a Lifetime” — has blasted back into my consciousness, making me long for “same as it ever was.”...
![Illustration by Kim Rosen](/sites/g/files/bxs4576/files/styles/resize_350/public/2021-12/EMS_grid.jpg?itok=Bx4l6cvE)
As an emergency room doctor, my days are filled with crisis, trauma and very few breaks. At home, my dining room looks like a hazmat zone.<br /> ...
![Illustration by Chloe Niclas](/sites/g/files/bxs4576/files/styles/resize_350/public/2021-12/Pandemic%20Slices%20GRID.jpg?itok=xneSnPjs)
What I learned in my religious studies courses at Rice helps me understand what the COVID-19 pandemic is revealing about the brokenness in contemporary society....
![Thresher Zoom Meeting](/sites/g/files/bxs4576/files/styles/resize_350/public/2021-12/Last%20ZoomGRID.jpg?itok=OeoK81TU)
Even as the Thresher staff reported on the pandemic, we kept wishing we wouldn’t become part of the story....
![Illustration by Adam Cruft](/sites/g/files/bxs4576/files/styles/resize_350/public/2021-12/Alejandro-CRUFTGRID.jpg?itok=hpX1XcC0)
To combat stress caused by COVID-19, I take refuge in an ancient practice of meditation — and you can, too....
![Photo by Jeff Fitlow](/sites/g/files/bxs4576/files/styles/resize_350/public/2021-12/IshimweGRID.jpg?itok=fv36wJ4X)
As an international student from Rwanda, going home during the pandemic was not an option for me. But staying connected was....
![Illustration by Daniel Fishel](/sites/g/files/bxs4576/files/styles/resize_350/public/2021-12/Nguyen_FishelGRID.png?itok=IpnRbFnx)
As a pathology resident and research scientist, I’m refocusing my work to help evaluate convalescent plasma as a treatment option for COVID-19 patients....
![Photo by Jonathan Zizzo](/sites/g/files/bxs4576/files/styles/resize_350/public/2021-12/ZachD_JZizzoGRID.jpg?itok=REfJC1-z)
As a critical pulmonary care physician with a graduate degree in public health, I’m used to having evidence-based answers; COVID-19’s questions are entirely new....
![Illustration by Maggie Chiang](/sites/g/files/bxs4576/files/styles/resize_350/public/2021-12/SurvivalPedagogyGRID.jpg?itok=u36zr9hS)
In these traumatic times, what’s required when teaching my brilliant students from afar and parenting my kids at home is much the same: patience, love and empathy....
![Illustration by Gracia Lam](/sites/g/files/bxs4576/files/styles/resize_350/public/2021-12/MIssissippi_Lam_GRID.jpg?itok=IydRzKiI)
As teachers in rural Mississippi, we watch the COVID-19 school closures with a nagging awareness that inequities in education are nothing new — and a clear understanding of how sch...
![Illustration by Allison Kerek](/sites/g/files/bxs4576/files/styles/resize_350/public/2021-12/ElderRampresad_KerekGRID.jpg?itok=h_41Os3Y)
The friendship we formed as Rice students sustains us from a distance as doctors in New York City....