The 1918 Spanish Influenza pandemic was the most severe pandemic in its time. Caused by the H1N1 virus, it travelled worldwide during 1918-1919. The virus infected around one-third…
Berenice Davila ’21 Political Science major Berenice Davila ’21 had certain expectations for her senior year at Berea, but the COVID-19 pandemic had other plans. Despite receiving an…
Each year, the Willis D. Weatherford Jr. Campus Christian Center (CCC) trains its student chaplains to serve the student body. Typically, this in-person, on-campus training prepares them to…
Reduced stress levels. Cleaner air. Sharpened attentiveness. Increased productivity. A number of university and medical studies show that a simple element found in many homes and offices produces…
Dear Berea Alumni and Friends, The year 2020 is definitely one for the history books. As the world was still reeling from the COVID-19 pandemic, our nation collided…
Navigating college athletics in the COVID-19 pandemic The presence of COVID-19 in our world seems to have altered the way everything and everyone functions—and athletics is no exception.…
Berea stood as a model to other colleges and universities across the nation when it chose to cancel in-person classes for the semester in early March. Though the…
Dear Berea Alumni and Friends, In January, I asked, “What does it mean to be radical?” Who could have known that by March our world would be radically…