Letter from the Editor
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Date
2021-06
Authors
Chambrose, Starla
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University of Oregon
Abstract
As for many students this past year, the COVID-19 pandemic completely derailed my research plans. I had been working on my thesis in a lab in the Institute of Ecology and Evolution since the winter of my sophomore year. By the spring of 2020, the end of my junior year, I felt like my project was close to completion. Just a more months of benchwork, I thought, and I would have finished with all my data collection. But then the pandemic hit, and I was prevented from entering the lab for the foreseeable future. I brainstormed with my thesis advisor, but by mid-summer we had reached a sad conclusion; even if the lab were open by the end of the summer, there was no possible way for me to finish my project. I had to scrap my entire thesis. Fortunately, it all worked out in the end. In early June, I finished my thesis—not in biology, but in history instead.
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scholarship, journal editing