NPR's education reporter talks about what graduating seniors are going through right now as the colleges are closed due to the pandemic and answers their questions.
Elissa Nadworny reports on all things college for NPR, following big stories like unprecedented enrollment declines, college affordability, the student debt crisis and workforce training. During the 2020-2021 academic year, she traveled to dozens of campuses to document what it was like to reopen during the coronavirus pandemic. Her work has won several awards including a 2020 Gracie Award for a story about student parents in college, a 2018 James Beard Award for a story about the Chinese-American population in the Mississippi Delta and a 2017 Edward R. Murrow Award for excellence in innovation.
Rick Slayman, who in March became the first living person to receive a kidney from a genetically modified pig, has died. One of his doctors talks about what was learned from the historic transplant.
NPR's Juana Summers speaks with law professor Kim Wehle about the second day of testimony from Michael Cohen in former President Donald Trump's hush money trial.