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Carolina’s Pandemic Year

This week last March, the University shifted to remote instruction. The Well is marking the occasion with a week of special stories, including reflections from Chancellor Guskiewicz, predictions from Carolina’s faculty on lasting changes to post-pandemic life and ways the University has addressed the crisis.

  • Occupational health nurse Jeanne Brueggemann treats an employee during a visit to the University Employee Occupational Health Clinic. (Jon Gardiner/UNC-Chapel Hill)

    We’re still here: Keeping Carolina healthy

    When most Carolina faculty and staff went remote last spring, many employees at the University Employee Occupational Health Clinic and Campus Health strapped on masks and came to campus to provide health care to Carolina employees and students. A year later, they’re still at it.

  • A man and woman wash dishes together in their kitchen.

    Post-pandemic life: shifts in family roles, spending habits

    In the second of a three-part series, two Carolina experts discuss some lasting effects of the pandemic on family relationships, how we spend money and how businesses operate.

  • Communicating a crisis

    When the pandemic hit and University communicators needed to get lifesaving messages out to students and employees, they called on top experts in public health education who also happen to be Carolina faculty.

  • Man in mask looks in mirror and adjusts tie.

    ‘Living in a different world’

    Chancellor Kevin M. Guskiewicz reflects on the pandemic year at Carolina and how it has changed the University and its students, faculty and staff.

  • n this screenshot from the Hussman School of Journalism and Media, students in Associate Professor Chad Heartwood’s Photojournalism Projects class greet each other with elbow bumps on the first day of Carolina's move to remote learning.

    Covering the first 4 months

    Remember when we called it “the novel coronavirus,” few people wore masks and we were all adjusting to Zoom?

  • Dr. Emily Ciccone in Uganda with MUST/UNC staff in front of the Kasese Health Centre: Emmanuel Baguma, field site coordinator; Michael Matte, researcher; Jethro Muliro, lab technician; Rabbison Muhindo, program manager, Miriam Businge, research assistant; Edgar Mulogo, MUST/UNC cofounder; Moses Ntaro, researcher; Erisania Muthegheki, nursing officer (kneeling); Lydia Kabugho, study coordinator; and Ciccone beside an image of the coronavirus.

    Big Tent, one team

    How a multidisciplinary research partnership built to fight HIV, Ebola and other infectious diseases turned its people, expertise and experience to fight COVID-19.

  • Teaching Assistant Professor Samba Camara leads an Introduction to Africa course (AAAD101) in Fetzer Hall with a class using COVID best practices. (Jon Gardiner/UNC-Chapel Hill)

    Post-pandemic life: recovery and revelations in education

    In part one of a three-part series, two Carolina experts consider the pandemic’s lasting effects on education from kindergarten through college.

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