Harvard University: Looking back on 2020 - A dark year of sickness, reckoning, loss — and periodic bits of light [The Harvard Gazette, 17 December 2020]

Title:

A dark year of sickness, reckoning, loss — and periodic bits of light

 

Author:

Colleen Walsh

 

Published:

The Harvard Gazette, 17 December 2020

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2020/12/harvard-faculty-look-back-on-2020/

 

From the article:

Like countless others, members of the Harvard faculty have been finding their way through the difficult days of 2020, planning Zoom wedding receptions, socially distancing from family and friends, tending to patients suffering with COVID-19, learning to teach students remotely, and trying to make sense of a year defined by a deadly pandemic, a reckoning with racial, social, and economic inequities, recession, and political upheaval. As December winds to a close, the Gazette asked faculty from across the University for their thoughts on how history, and they themselves, will remember the tumultuous past 12 months.