Greetings from the Ostrom Workshop! We approach the end of term with a familiar sense of joy as we celebrate the many accomplishments of our Ostrom fellows, research awardees, visiting scholars, and students at the end of another academic year, but of course this time is tempered by the extraordinary times and related challenges we’re all living through. The Workshop has been active in furthering research related to the pandemic through an array of Programs and working groups, including efforts to explore the political economy of pandemics, along with work in the Cybersecurity and Data Governance Programs focusing on managing disinformation and digital repression related to COVID-19 as well as the study of blockchain-enabled trust certificates. Please don’t hesitate to reach out if you know of other ways that the Workshop community can be helpful as we work together in this common cause.

We’re wishing all of you and your families well, and hope you can enjoy a peaceful, restorative, and productive summer break. Please do keep in touch, remember that our research and working groups will stay active in case you’re looking for opportunities to get involved, and I look forward to seeing all of you in the Fall – either in-person, or online.

Brondizio is a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Anthropology and an adjunct professor in the Department of Geography, both in the College of Arts and Sciences, and in the O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs. Sullivan is a Provost Professor in the College's Department of Religious Studies, director of the Center for Religion and the Human and an affiliated professor in the Mauer School of Law. Click here for the entire news release.