5 pm, October 23 2025 Pearson Lecture: ‘Between Isolation and Resilience: The COVID Stories Project’ Livia Arndal Woods, PhD, University of Illinois Springfield project coordinator SIU School of Medicine, 801 N. Rutledge, 2nd Fl - South Auditorium, followed by a reception in the Pearson Museum Livia Woods, UIS associate professor, will discuss the creation of the COVID archive, its related projects and the teamwork that brought the stories into the community. “Scholars, doctors and students at SIU School of Medicine and the University of Illinois at Springfield have been working together to