Compiled and archived by Anna Pasquantonio and Lavender VandeWal Art by visual note taker Virginia Montgomery Sponsored by the Eugene H. Fram Chair in Applied Critical Thinking, Critically Thinking About our COVID Stories was a…
Navigating Work/Life Balance
By Anna Pasquantonio and Lavender VandeWal This session opened with some thoughts on the meaning of work-life balance. In many cases, work/life balance isn’t exactly a balance, but a negotiating of the quality of both…
Combating Misinformation
Art by visual note taker Virginia Montgomery By Anna Pasquantonio This session, held towards the end of the day, focused on misinformation in general–– not just at RIT. Participants shared their struggles with discerning the…
Beyond Rochester
By Lavender VandeWal This session highlighted the experiences of students and faculty at RIT’s global campuses, including Hong Kong, Croatia and Kosovo. We learned about the support they received from the university, and of the…
Communication Barriers of COVID-19
By Gabriel Ponte-Fleary Photo of Gabe at his desk working from home. It was March 2020 when I started to hear about a new virus spreading in China, but I never thought it was going…
COVID-19 and the US-Canada Border Closing
By Marshall Hurst https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQB7CTBqs58&feature=youtu.be&ab_channel=ElizaFowler Video of Marshall Hurst sharing his COVID-19 story. Marshall Hurst is an international student who is currently a second year in the MBA program with a concentration in Management and Leadership…
Buying a House 1,500 Miles Away
By Jason Rivera I was a strange 16-year-old. Sixteen was the year that I started my endeavor of purchasing a house. It was a long term goal of course, but I wanted to start preparing…
Photojournalism Alumni Cover the Pandemic
Interviews by Julia Popowych https://youtu.be/Idc50ZV8ZEw RIT photojournalism alumni are covering the pandemic in a number of roles, as staff photojournalists, photo editors, freelance photographers. Consistently listed as essential workers, many face the daily challenge of…
Neighborhood Selfie Station
by Susan Lakin Sharing during a period of isolation, sign by Lucia When asked to stay home during the coronavirus order I noticed an increase in neighbors strolling outside. I enjoy walking in my neighborhood,…
Staying Strong in NYC
By Marielle Scott With 320,000 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in New York City, there seems to be no end in sight. Simple actions such as grocery shopping have become a burden for most. For my…
Still Time
By Julia Popowych I have found especially in times of strife, how we communicate is so important. As we all struggle through a time of physical, social isolation due to the COVID-19 pandemic, I found…
Letters in a Pandemic
By Britney Strong There have been many pandemics throughout history, but one of the most deadly was the 1918 Spanish Influenza. At its worst, the flu infected over 500 million people and over 50 million…
Looking Towards the Fall
Interview and Editing by Nicholas Cornish https://youtu.be/5Myncn_f_Sk Anjali Jogeshwar, Libnah Rodriguez and Eric Cintron discuss their feelings on the COVID-19 pandemic and how their future plans have been affected by it. Anjali Jogeshwar, Libnah Rodriguez…
Staying Healthy while Immunocompromised
Story and Interview by Nicholas Cornish Nicholas Cornish As someone who has underlying health issues that put me at a higher risk for complications with the coronavirus, and someone who lives with an immunocompromised person,…
COVID-19 Hotline
by Matteo Bracco Monroe County employees operate the COVID-19 Hotline to answer the public's questions at the Public Safety Training Facility in Rochester, N.Y. on Mar. 17, 2020. In the early days of March, before…
Teaching is a Performative Art
Interview and editing by Dylan Baker Photos by Michaël Amy and Milina Barry In Michaël Amy’s spare time he enjoys gardening and being outside when the weather is nice in Rochester, New York. RIT Professor…
Leading and Finding a Work/Life Balance
College of Art & Design Dean Todd Jokl and Therese Mulligan, director of the School of Photographic Arts & Sciences discuss the weight of making difficult decisions amidst RITs move to distance learning this semester…
Masks in Mass
Emily Bellinger, an adjunct faculty in the School of Art and School of American Craft, is a fine art quilter and bag maker. Soon after a friend asked her to make a personal fabric mask and…
RIT History Professor Reflects on Global Pandemic’s Impact
by Michael Colotti As the global pandemic of the COVID-19 virus continues to spread across the world, many universities have temporarily closed their campuses, compelling students to take classes online for the rest of the…
A Taste of the College Experience
by Tyler English Video Provided by Alex Kruger Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic there a thousands of college students across the nation who will not be able to walk across the graduation stage. On the other…