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A year ago, ninety, bleary-eyed New York University students living in Paris were told they had 48 hours to get on a flight home or risk being stuck in France as a deadly virus spread like wildfire. Fast asleep in their dorms, they were awakened at 3:00 a.m. with phone calls, furious knocks on dorm […]
COVID-19
College Students Face Yet Another Pandemic: Their Mental Health
Freshman Myles Clark remembers being at a fraternity party with a tight-knit group of friends at Santa Clara University last March. That day, he had no way of knowing his school would soon be disruptively shifting his college experience online. Like the millions of students around the country, Clark has experienced a massive disruption in […]
Promotors, DJs Leaving New York As Nightclubs Remain Closed One Year Later
The city that never sleeps has been sleeping for over a year, and for the thousands with jobs tied to the New York nightclub industry not much has changed since last March. From promoters to DJs to bartenders, nightclub workers have been left jobless for over a year through the health pandemic caused by Covid-19. […]
The Travel Industry Has Been Changed Forever. What Comes Next?
Since the World Health Organization declared Covid-19 a pandemic a year ago, the $29 billion travel industry has dramatically altered how people move across cities and states due to new health regulations. Travelers today are prioritizing safety as a top consideration when evaluating their vacation plans. For the majority of Americans pre-pandemic, public health was […]
NY Movie Theaters Reopen A Year After Covid-19
Lauren Williams, head of operations at Metrograph, one of the first theaters to close its doors in New York City, had no idea it would be more than a year before she could ever walk back into the famous independent theater in Chinatown. “I went in on the last day to close,” said Williams. “This […]
The Vaccine Race Shows Again The Deep Roots of Inequality
It took nearly three weeks for East New York, Brooklyn resident Jason Minnis to get his mother-in-law a vaccine appointment in their majority-black neighborhood. Many others aren’t as lucky. Since the first vaccine rollout late last year, the widening disparity in the vaccination rates among Black communities in New York has only worsened. Part of […]
NYU Faculty May Be Over Zoom Too After A Year of Remote Learning
A year into the pandemic, New York University professors have adjusted to their new teaching landscape. They’ve mastered the technical aspects of conducting lessons over virtual platforms. They’ve experimented with creative ways to redesign their classes to create more Zoom-friendly content. And they’ve created pockets of community wherever possible. But these professors can’t take another […]
March 11, 2020: The Day Everything Changed
On the morning of March 11, 2020, the headline story was expected to be Harvey Weinstein’s sentencing. However, what followed turned out to be the most hectic days of the coronavirus yet. On that Wednesday, the World Health Organization declared the coronavirus to be a global pandemic, Utah Jazz center Rudy Gobert tested positive, which […]
Maya Wiley’s $10 Billion Dollar New Deal to Boost NY’s Economy
New York City mayoral candidate Maya Wiley has a plan to bring life back to a city hit hardest by the Covid pandemic. New Yorkers are facing the worst economic crisis in a generation with more than half of households as of September either having lost a job, wages or hours during the pandemic. Residents […]
Social Psychologist Says COVID-19 Has Impacted Social Norms — and We Won’t Go Back to “Normal”
Dr. Mica Estrada answers questions about how the COVID-19 pandemic is impacting society on a psychological level. She focuses on how social behaviors are changing while describing how norms relating to relationships before the pandemic contrast with how people are currently behaving in the midst of it. Estrada highlights the effect of social changes on […]