Penn Pandemic Diary PWH launches ‘Penn Pandemic Diary’ to tell stories of students affected by the pandemic

The coronavirus is raging across the world, upending the personal and academic lives of college students and professors. Questions of how society will recover and how the pandemic will affect academics linger.

To record the thoughts and experiences of the Penn community, Perry World House launched an initiative called the Penn Pandemic Diary to give them a platform to tell their stories during the outbreak.

The idea for the diary project was created by John Gans, Perry World House Director of Communications and Research, to help Penn students share how the coronavirus is affecting their lives, Perry World House Director Michael Horowitz said. Perry World House seeks to publish three to four diary entries per week, which can be submitted anonymously or under a byline, according to the submission form.

The first diary entry, titled "Three Ways COVID-19 Will Affect the Study of International Relations and Security," was published on March 25 by Erik Lin-Greenberg, a postdoctoral fellow at Perry World House. Ten diary entries have been published to date, covering topics such as how semesters abroad were cut short and how the pandemic is affecting poor communities.

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