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Life in a Liminal Time

June 23, 2022 04:23 PM
Is the worldwide pandemic a lesson in global empathy? Technology writer and MIT professor Sherry Turkle thinks so. A New York Times review of her memoir, The Empathy Diaries, says she hopes “that the pandemic has afforded us a view of one another’s problems and vulnerabilities in a way we might not have had as much access to before.”
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A Family Travels Before and After(ish) a Global Pandemic

June 29, 2022 08:28 AM
Since my husband and I are now fully COVID vaccinated, we have felt comfortable traveling within the US. It was our turn to be New Zealand. Here’s a back-and-forth look at the last trip we took pre-pandemic and the first trip we took post-vaccination.
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Uncertainty Abroad

June 29, 2022 09:01 AM
Many see the curated externalities of a study abroad on an Instagram feed: familiar photo spots, group adventures, new insights, food discoveries. But for John Talbot, BYU professor of English and director of the study abroad to Siena, Italy, disruption is intentional and uncertainty should be considered a programmatic skill set.
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A Great Spiritual Biodiversity

June 29, 2022 09:14 AM
The more time we spend in the wetland, the more we learn about it; and the more we learn about it, the more we realize that its beauty is fragile and threatened. It exists in a balance.
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Uncertain World

June 29, 2022 09:27 AM
Marren Haneberg is launching a global career in which understanding risk is the plan.
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A Stay-at-home Study Abroad

June 29, 2022 09:33 AM
Jo Huey, a Middle East studies/Arabic (MESA) major, will be the first to admit that she took a roundabout path to studying the Middle East and Arabic. While serving a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ in Malaysia, she was applying to transfer to BYU, but she had minimal time to research different majors. When she noticed MESA listed, it caught her attention.
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A Cultural Ambassador

June 29, 2022 09:40 AM
When Ashlen Lemon, a linguistics major and TESOL minor, heard about the Fulbright English Teaching Assistant (ETA) Program in Cambodia, the timing felt providential. At the time, Lemon was in Cambodia studying culture and the Khmer language at the Center for Khmer Studies, and she had heard about the Fulbright program through her classmates there.
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