What happens when supply line production of essential goods and equipment is disrupted? Can public science offer solutions? Citizen scientists and community labs are developing everything from affordable insulin to low-cost, open-source medical supplies. During the COVID-19 pandemic, maker communities such as Georgetown’s Maker Hub began producing personal protective equipment (PPE) for local healthcare facilities. This conversation between Margaret Talbot, journalist and writer for The New Yorker, and Don Undeen, Manager of the Maker Hub In Lauinger Library, moderated by Lakshmi Krishnan (Dir. of Medical Humanities at GU), and featuring undergrad Maker Hub staffer and EMT Luce Zhu (SFS 21) will explore the worlds of open science and maker culture. How might these break through barriers in scientific research and communication, delivery of essential goods, and revolutionize communities?

The Georgetown Humanities Initiative aims to support the research and teaching of the University’s humanistic scholars. The Initiative embraces innovative scholarship that takes various forms, including traditional humanistic methods, digital approaches, and arts and performance. Through the projects it funds and the programming it develops, the Initiative strives to support work that has a deep impact in the academy while also engaging the public by demonstrating the continuing value of the humanities for understanding the challenges and opportunities of the human condition. The Initiative also has deep interest in innovative approaches to humanistic teaching and learning and will invite the participation and collaboration of graduate and undergraduate students.

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