When the pandemic put a pause on my professional life, I turned my energies toward home an...
Hunkered down and busier than ever covering the pandemic, I’m missing my annual West Texas...
An anthem of my student days — the Talking Heads’ “Once in a Lifetime” — has blasted back...
As an emergency room doctor, my days are filled with crisis, trauma and very few breaks. A...
What I learned in my religious studies courses at Rice helps me understand what the COVID-...
Even as the Thresher staff reported on the pandemic, we kept wishing we wouldn’t become pa...
To combat stress caused by COVID-19, I take refuge in an ancient practice of meditation — ...
As an international student from Rwanda, going home during the pandemic was not an option ...
As a pathology resident and research scientist, I’m refocusing my work to help evaluate co...
As a critical pulmonary care physician with a graduate degree in public health, I’m used t...
In these traumatic times, what’s required when teaching my brilliant students from afar an...
As teachers in rural Mississippi, we watch the COVID-19 school closures with a nagging awa...
The friendship we formed as Rice students sustains us from a distance as doctors in New Yo...
This issue includes first-person essays accompanied by beautiful, thoughtful illustrations...