HIGHLIGHTS

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.

Around the globe, the pandemic has severely affected women and girls, exacerbating existing inequalities and creating repercussions in education, economic opportunity, health, and the home.

“The secret to this hug, this shift in A.’s behavior, was that we gave him love and care; we listened to him, we paid attention and, most of all, we saw him as who he was: a child.”

Self-healing concrete, which naturally fills any tiny gaps that form over time, could be the future of the building material. But first, there’s a bigger gap that needs to be overcome: that between academic research taking place in the lab and products available on the market.