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Illustration of a video classroom with orange, blue and pink faces fill the twelve squares.

June 3, 2020 June 3, 2020

The Shift to Remote Learning
Challenges, drawbacks, and various approaches in continuing to educate during the spread of coronavirus

by Emma CrowE

Governor Kate Brown has announced that kindergarten through twelfth grade and post-secondary education in Oregon has transferred to remote learning until the fall of…

May 1, 2020 May 3, 2020

Squashing Coronavirus Will Take Time
Pharmaceutical companies scramble to find a vaccine

by Sophie Meyers

Scientists around the world are coming together to create a vaccine to combat the novel coronavirus and COVID-19 in light of the pandemic. In…

A collage of hand drawn faces of all kinds wearing protective masks on their mouths and noses.

May 1, 2020 May 1, 2020

Coronavirus: Continued Development of Spread and Response

by Vivian Veidt

The novel coronavirus known as SARS-CoV-2 has continued to spread nationwide, with statewide shelter-in-place orders standing in 42 states. According to the Centers for…

An illustration of the Yemen flag, three broad stripes of red, white, and black. Blood runs off of the flag and onto the floor beneath it. Encircling the flag is a dotted red circle.

May 1, 2020 May 1, 2020

Ongoing Crisis in Yemen

by Emma CrowE

Yemen is currently experiencing a humanitarian crisis that has left 14 million people at risk of starvation, according to Human Rights Watch, a non-governmental…

illustration by Greer Siegel of a person practicing social distancing while staring out a window at a blue sky with "social distancing" literally written in the sky among some puffy white clouds. The person has an expression that seems to express a humdrum feeling about needing to stay inside while the sky is so bright and blue outside.

April 11, 2020 April 11, 2020

Oregon Responds to Coronavirus

by Vivian Veidt

In a press release issued on March 11, Governor Kate Brown outlined a four point plan responding to the threat of the novel coronavirus…

illustration by May Walker of a red map of the united states outlined in blue with pink skulls that are maniacally smiling inside the map of the United States.

April 4, 2020 April 4, 2020

Dying Young: The New American Way

by Vivian Veidt

A study released in November, 2019 affirms past indicators that young Americans now have a lower life expectancy than previous generations, but that similar…

Sophie Meyers of a Bee, drawn with black and white watercolors with yellow dots in the shape of a flower around the bee

April 4, 2020 April 4, 2020

Flower Power
Bees

by Sophie Meyers

Bees are responsible for the pollination of one-third of all food consumed in the United States, yet bee populations are rapidly decreasing to the…

April 1, 2020 April 1, 2020

Relatively Speaking
Expansion on Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity proven

by Sophie Meyers

Einstein’s theory of relativity describes the laws of gravity in the effect of astronomical bodies and the flow of time. Technologies developed in the…

April 1, 2020 April 1, 2020

Rolling Back Water Protection
Trump rolls back Obama Era Water Regulations

by Sophie Meyers

The Trump Administration has signed new water protection regulations that will be the largest rollback of U.S. water protections since the Clean Water Act…

March 25, 2020 March 25, 2020

Vaccination: Spreading Misinformation Spreads Disease
Analysis of the anti-vax movement

by Sophie Meyers

Public health relies on vaccines as a measure to mitigate an increasing risk of widespread pandemic. Vaccines are created to be implemented collectively, a…