Graduate students in the field of psychology face unique challenges during the pandemic—not being able to carry on their research due to mandatory laboratory closures, social distancing requirements, and restrictions to in-person fieldwork. Coupling these challenges with concerns about meeting educational milestones, financial insecurity, and professional advancement opportunities, graduate students need real-time assistance and guidance from mentors and their communities. 

Professor of Communications Devon Greyson (FRS 2019) collaborated with researchers at the University of Toronto to predict effective means of communication to improve public attitudes around vaccines as public health figures race to get out messaging. Greyson discusses how disinformation and misinformation influence people's perspectives on health care systems and ways to create common ground based on factual information. View the video.

Joya Misra (FRS 2004 and 2013), professor of sociology and public policy, director of ISSR, was interviewed by the New York Times and Inside Higher Ed to discuss how Covid-19 has affected faculty at universities and colleges and efforts for equitable support for faculty amid major shifts in higher education.