HIGHLIGHTS

In mid-September 2020, a Mediterranean cyclone appeared in Greece for the first time. Large swaths of the country, from the southern Ionian to the Sporades and Crete, were faced with heavy winds, torrential rain, and flooding.

From the youngest children learning to read to older adults gaining new skills, access to education is essential.

Since prehistory, stories, shared in every possible format, have formed the basis of human communication.

When the lockdowns began in Greece a year ago, attention turned first, naturally, to the medical situation: COVID-19 patients, people on ventilators, the doctors and nurses fighting on the front lines of the health crisis.

Hellenic studies can offer a lens for understanding our globalized world, a window into how knowledge is created and debated, a cipher that helps us decode and contextualize the traces of Greek culture all around us.

Greece’s human geography is as varied as its physical geography. Urban centers along the vast coastline, towns in the mountains, and tiny island villages. Promising young athletes, elderly folks on the island of Anafi, families running together, a woman in Prespes expecting her first child. But wherever they are and whoever they are, all deserve the resources to live a healthy life.

The Covid-19 pandemic has had an enormous impact on the education sector, affecting the lives of 1.6 billion students globally.

Ιn communities around the world, food security was already elusive for too many, and the pandemic significantly widened and exacerbated food needs. It has been a threefold blow, simultaneously upending socioeconomic stability for individuals and families, disrupting existing food systems, and imposing new constraints on the organizations working to help ensure that people have enough good food to eat.

“It's a rare jewel,” says Sandra L. Gibson of the building.