Even as the semester went virtual, senior Elizabeth Sirianni remained positive. With the help of professors, peers, and her liberal arts education, she has hope for a bright future. “I know that this won't last forever, and we as a people will need to be there to pick up the pieces when it's over.”

“Is it okay to walk your pet through a cemetery?” Developed alongside the philosophy department by new assistant professor Dr. Cat Saint-Croix, the High School Regional Ethics Bowl helps teens develop positions on ethical topics and adapt them through thoughtful conversations.

Philosophy Professor Valerie Tiberius offers ideas on how, even in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, we might think about the keys to achieving well-being: what our values are, what it means to fulfill them and whether we are living in ways that uphold those values.

In 1939, at the outset of World War II, the British writer and theologian C.S. Lewis (1898-1963) delivered a speech titled, “Learning in wartime,” where he said, “War creates no absolutely new situation: it simply aggravates the permanent human situation so that we can no longer ignore it.” Professor Alan Love co-writes this article for the LA Times.