Prof. David Canning teaches a session on health spending as a development policy in Kresge cafeteria
April 6, 2021 – Since the beginning of spring semester, 35 international students have been gathering once a week in Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health’s Kresge cafeteria masked and socially-distanced to learn from faculty experts about topics ranging from U.S. health policy to cancer epidemiology to decision analysis.
The classes are part of a special hybrid program for first-year international students, who were facing a number of challenges with taking remote classes from thousands of miles away, according to Nancy Turnbull, senior associate dean for educational programs, and Sarah Stillman, Office of Education course manager. Turnbull and Stillman have helped lead the effort to make the program a reality in spite of the pandemic, which had forced all the School’s classes online since March 2020. The program was open to first-year international students who were elig
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On a gorgeous sunny afternoon last June, my son and his sweetheart faced each other, masks affixed, hands clasped, at the Orange County Clerk-Recorder’s office in Laguna Hills. They promised to love each other for all eternity.
Or something like that. Due to coronavirus restrictions I was the only one allowed inside with them, and I could barely hear their vows over the din from two or was it three? other COVID-style wedding ceremonies farther down the counter, and from a woman inquiring loudly about where to file a particular real estate document.
The setting had all the charm of the DMV, but no one cared. It was a joyous occasion; for one blissful day my son and his bride celebrated their commitment to each other and put aside their concerns over the challenges ahead.