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2020 Year in Review

COVID-19 has certainly shaped 2020. But it鈥檚 not the only noteworthy event from this past year. Before we welcome 2021, we鈥檙e taking a look back at this extraordinary year, and the remarkable role Widener played in it.

Front of Kapelski Learning Center
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Revitalized African & African American Studies Minor Launches

Ten years after the African & African American Studies minor launched, and following a summer of heightened national awareness surrounding racial justice and the Black Lives Matter movement, Widener is revamping the program.

Laboratory photo of gloved hand working with beakers
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Making the Cut with CRISPR

Where can you use Nobel Prize-winning 鈥済enetic scissors鈥 to research the impact of heat stress on commercial chickens or fat formation in fruit flies and humans? In Widener鈥檚 undergraduate biology and biochemistry labs.

Person filming one of the hosts of the virtual Veterans Parade show in the TV studio
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The Parade Must Go On

Two Widener alumni, and their digital marketing company, helped bring Philadelphia鈥檚 virtual Veterans Parade to life. They got some help from fellow Widener graduates, current students, faculty, and campus facilities.