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Dennis Assanis, PH.D., President of the University of Delaware, leans on his academic training to steer the school through the pandemic.
Living through a crisis will etch certain scenes into your memory.
“My wife Eleni and I were in Greece with about 50 students and some faculty on a study abroad program,” remembers Dennis Assanis, president of the University of Delaware. “It was January 20, 2020, and I was reading a Greek newspaper the day before we were to fly home. I saw just a small item about a deadly virus in China, and I thought, ‘This could be serious.’”