Confronting COVID-19

America's leading research universities were at the forefront of the battle against COVID-19 and are working to protect us from other pandemics. From assisting communities developing response strategies, to increasing testing capacity and researching possible vaccines, to treating people who contracted the novel coronavirus, universities worked tirelessly to address the full impact of the pandemic and even today continue their research to prevent others.

This kind of research is made possible by a robust government-university partnership that has fueled much of the greatest medical, technological, and economic breakthroughs of the last 70-plus years, including the development of the polio vaccine. Then, as now, America's leading research universities are confronting our biggest challenges head-on, and are central to health and security of our nation.

Read President Barbara R. Snyder's blog post about why, like Dolly Parton, the government-university Partnership that led to the COVID vaccine is a national treasure.