On the seventh edition of the Webster World Report, our weekly discussion to link Webster University’s global operations, we hear in-depth interviews from Tashkent and St. Louis. This program features an interview with nursing student Charlie Johnson of Webster’s College of Arts and Sciences who works on the front lines in the pandemic with patients suffering from COVID-19. The program also features interviews with Dean Anton (Tony) Wallner of the College of Arts and Sciences, and Maggie Dankert, the assistant director of Webster University Tashkent. The news segment of the program features Dr. Nicole Miller-Struttmann discussing her new bee census project called ShutterBee, and the program also features a short excerpt from the virtual Commencement speech given by Dr. Vladimir Ivkovic of Harvard and Massachusetts General Hospital.

Host: Rick Rockwell. Staff: Jennifer Gammage, associate producer; Jim Singer, announcer/engineer; Tierra Gray, newscaster.

The transcript for this program is available here: http://www.webster.edu/documents/webster-world-report/webster-world-report-05-15-2020-transcript.pdf