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Free Tuition Might Save Community Colleges — But What If Students Need More?

by Melanie Bavaria on May 19, 2021 Comments are Disabled

Five years ago, Brooke Clark would have never believed that she would make the Dean’s List. In fact, Clark had always felt guilty that she had not finished college. After graduating high school in 2013, Clark was taking care of her ill father, working full-time, and attending a new college […]

Commentary: Celebrating Another Ramadan in a Pandemic Has Meant Learning Patience and Perseverance in Times of Uncertainty

by Hawa Diawara on May 13, 2021 Comments are Disabled

The spring semester of college for me has been quite a spiral. My days consist of spending many hours finishing assignments and attending my lectures, but also fasting from sunrise to sunset and trying to spend more time reading the Quran. This is the second year COVID-19 has affected our […]

Valerie Akers, co-owner of the Parkview Pharmacy is seen through a plexiglass window as Mary Slone lifts her disposable camera to her face. “While I cannot remember the exact reason for me being there, I do recall the surrealness of visiting the pharmacy I patronized but doing so via drive-through. Even with plexi glass between us, we were both wearing masks. It truly was a moment out of the science fiction stories that I have long read,” Slone recalled. Photo: Mary Slone, Provided

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Essential Appalachia: When a Pandemic Changes Everything, This Is What We Hold Dear

by Molly Born & Brittany Greeson on May 6, 2021 Comments are Disabled

Most days since the COVID-19 pandemic started, Alexis Batausa has laced up his running shoes and headed for the hills. If the fear and isolation took a toll on his mind and spirit, he was determined not to let it do the same to his body. In April, Batausa lost […]

Brett Hill attended Belarusian musician and activist Siarhei Douhushau first American show at a small bar in Athens, Ohio, in March 2019, which was the start of a music collaboration that has now reached across an ocean during a global pandemic. Photo: Char Reich/100 Days in Appalachia

Slavalachia: The New Music Tradition Uniting Across an Ocean, a Pandemic and a Revolution

by Chad Reich on April 20, 2021 Comments are Disabled

Belarusian musician and activist Siarhei Douhushau was in Chicago in March of 2019 on a U.S. tour presenting folk art and music from his eastern European home. Nadzeya Ilkevich, then a second-year graduate student at Ohio University, caught wind and lured her friend and fellow countryman to Athens, Ohio – […]

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Here’s What the Federal Pause to Johnson & Johnson Vaccines Means for Central Appalachia

by Suhail Bhat and Jeff Young on April 13, 2021 Comments are Disabled

This article was originally published by Ohio Valley ReSource. State leaders around the Ohio Valley will temporarily have fewer doses of COVID-19 vaccine to distribute following the Food and Drug Administration’s decision Tuesday to pause the use of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine. Regional officials gave no indication that they […]

Healthcare is Human: Meet the Brave Nurse Looking for a Comfortable Face Mask

by Ryan McCarthy & Molly Humphreys on March 30, 2021 Comments are Disabled

Chelsea Jacobs is a courageous woman, a nurse who brings bravery into the hospital – the hard-earned kind you get when you spend your weekends barrel horse racing. She’s been on the job at the Berkeley Medical Center in Martinsburg, West Virginia, for the past three years. Like many nurses, […]