One of the starkest aspects of this COVID-19 crisis has been its impact on collaborative research. Besides moving in-person classes to remote instruction, scientific researchers had to close their labs, research trips and fieldwork had to be put on hold, and graduate and undergraduate student researchers were forced to go home. Academic research was in crisis.
While most faculty labs were back up and running by last fall, and students were able to do research again (as long as they were masked and vaccinated), the aftermath of the “lost year” will be felt for years to come in the academic research world.
