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The Korean Studies Research Network offers scholars and students opportunities to learn and collaborate, part of UI's growth in Korean studies.

The Korean Studies Research Network offers scholars and students opportunities to learn and collaborate, part of UI's growth in Korean studies.

On February 23, 1944, a 15-year-old girl gazed from an attic window at the topmost branches of a tree. The tree had become a sort of friend to her, a reminder of life beyond the small space to which she was confined and one of the few things she could see from the only window that was not blacked out. In her diary that day, she wrote, “I look up at the blue sky and the bare chestnut tree, on whose branches little raindrops shine, appearing like silver, and at the seagulls and other birds as they glide on the wind. As long as this exists…and I may live to see it, this sunshine, these cloudl...

COVID-19 has impacted — and disrupted — almost every element of daily life. It has induced massive structural change throughout society. Communities have rapidly adapted to new ways to meet, work, socialize and shop. Health systems have responded to exceptional strains, modified the way health care workforces operate in times of crisis, and expanded opportunities for virtualized access to health care. People around the world have adopted a new, working parlance of virology and vaccinology. The impacts of COVID-19 on health and community have been inarguable, yet society has been resource...

Black immigrants killed by police are a testament to the impossibility of un-Blackening one's self in America D.K. Nnuro, Guest Columnist © Special to the Press-Citizen D.K. Nnuro In a 2016 New York Times opinion piece titled “I’m Ghanaian-American. Am I Black?”, Yaa Gyasi, the author of "Homegoing" and, more recently, "Transcendent Kingdom," writes, “Black immigrant parents may tell their children to shrug off their encounters with racism, but what good does that do the child who must leave his house every day and be Black in America?” In the wake of the killing ...