In this issue are stories on COVID-19 research by UC Davis College of Letters and Science faculty, including the cover feature on the psychological toll of social distancing; cave crystals as climate change time machines; how scholars in the humanities are deepening our understanding of the impacts of global warming on the human experience; an alumna whose mural in Minneapolis went viral online during the Black Lives Matter protests following George Floyd's death; and a new visiting artists program established at UC Davis with a gift from Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem.