The Last Word

Campus Life, Pandemic Style

A young man wearing a face mask paints a large watercolor outside in bright sunshine, with the leaves on the trees turning autumnal colors.

Lawn circles. Plexiglas barriers. Classes held in tents. Hybrid teaching and learning methods. Nearly 100,000 ounces of hand sanitizer and 250,000 face masks. Tens of thousands of COVID-19 tests. These are just some of the necessities of campus life during a pandemic.

Read more about how Brandeis’ all-hands-on-deck approach to making the university as safe and vibrant as possible during the fall semester enabled almost 2,000 students to return to campus, including most of the Class of 2024.

Photo by Mike Lovett

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