The Williams Undergraduate Research Journal (WURJ) is launching this year to showcase student research that might not get traditionally presented in the way that thesis defenses or academic presentations would.

Last fall, the lounge spaces of the Science Center were home to groups of students working together through most hours of the day and night. But this semester, the buildings remain eerily quiet, and study nooks, labeled with maximum occupancy and supplied with hand sanitizer, go unused. Science student groups are having to get creative to find modes of collaboration in the age of COVID.