Juliana Vidal, originally from Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais, Brazil, is completing her PhD in Chemistry at Memorial University of Newfoundland.
Editor’s note: Originally from Brazil, Memorial University of Newfoundland doctoral student Juliana Ladeira Vidal went home to visit family earlier this year and has been unable to return to Canada because of the COVID pandemic. As she recounts here, however, a global health emergency does not stand in the way of her engagement with the...
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