Barnard College News

A year after COVID-19 became a national emergency, a campus-run project to monitor coronavirus in wastewater is part of a multi-pronged effort to keep the community safe during the pandemic.

The co-founder and incoming executive director of Sister District — who left behind a law career to help launch the voter-engagement nonprofit — describes the values of sisterhood that led her to success.  

As the pandemic disrupted traditional internships and in-person work, Barnard students and alumnae discovered new professional opportunities.

A Treatise on Stars, by Mei-mei Berssenbrugge ’69, was recently nominated as a finalist for the 2020 National Book Award for Poetry. Here, Berssenbrugge reflects on the natural influences and the creative process at work in her latest collection of poems.