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As the population ages, robots are poised to offer a helping hand, a leg up, and a pep for your step.
Faith and Hope in the Hospital Corridors
Chaplaincy takes on a new look.
by Andrew Tan
‘We Might Come Out Weak, but We Are Going to Come Out’
In overwhelmed eastern Peru, an Indigenous alum rallies a scrappy medical brigade to confront COVID-19.
by Melinda Sacks
What That Buzz Aboard the ISS Is All About
Meet robots Honey, Queen and Bumble, aka Astrobee.
by Corinne Purtill
‘It’s Here, and It’s Spreading’
Washington state health officer Kathy Lofy, ’93, remembers the beginning of the pandemic.
by Deni Ellis Béchard
Some Reassembly Required
Here’s how people looking for a fresh start are cultivating potent new versions of themselves.
by Deni Ellis Béchard
Stepping Up for the Navajo Nation
Grassroots effort supplies PPE to health-care workers in Navajo communities.
by Melinda Sacks
How Next Year Will Be Different
The outline of a plan for 2020-21.
by Summer Moore Batte
Rapid Response
How the Stanford research community pivoted to address the coronavirus.
by Deni Ellis Béchard
This Is Not a Drill
Bay Area public health officers had prepared all their lives for the possibility of a pandemic. That didn’t make their decisions any easier.
by Deni Ellis Béchard