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���ϲ����� Law Review—an academic journal published by ���ϲ����� College of Law—and SUNY Upstate Medical University have announce the winners of their COVID-19 writing competition. The special contest—announced in December 2020—encouraged graduate students of ���ϲ����� and SUNY Upstate to write or co-author original articles on the theme of “COVID-19: Lessons Learned and Where Do We Go from Here?”

• Olivia Chen (SUNY Upstate) and Natasha Pandit (SUNY Upstate) won first place for “A Proposed Policy Solution to Provide Remote Prenatal Care after the COVID-19 Pandemic.”
• Roland Lindmayer (College of Law) took second place with “The Liquidity Pandemic: A Recent History of the Federal Reserve and Economic Implications of Historically Aggressive Actions during the COVID-19 Pandemic.”
• Rebecca Harris (SUNY Upstate) third place article is titled “Extroversion as a Potential Risk Factor for Increased Spread of COVID-19 in the United States During a Global Pandemic.”

In addition to publishing the winning articles, ���ϲ����� Law Review has selected six additional submissions for its journal:

“The Rise in Family Violence During the COVID-19 Era” (Ann Ciancia, College of Law); “A Bioethical Argument to Provide Direct Payments to Undocumented Immigrants in a COVID-19 Economic Stimulus” (Michael Conroy, SUNY Upstate); “A Bitter Pill to Swallow: The Inevitability of the Global Pandemic” (Anthony Corsi, SUNY Upstate); “Is China to Blame for COVID-19?” (Melanie Ngo, SUNY Upstate); “COVID-19 Within the Mass Incarceration System” (Almasa Talovic, SUNY Upstate); and “Only the Rich Can Afford a Free Vaccine” (Connor Wiest, SUNY Upstate).

“A big thank you goes to the ���ϲ����� Law Review staff and the SUNY Upstate AMA/MSSNY Board for making this competition a success. Congratulations to the winners!” says SLR Editor-in-Chief Nikkia Knudsen. “Thank you also to our faculty judges and advisors, who provided their time and unwavering support—from the College of Law: Professor Emeritus Peter Bell, Professor Emily Brown, Professor Robin Paul Malloy, Professor Aliza Milner, and Professor Danielle Stokes and from SUNY Upstate: Dr. Daryll Dykes, Dr. Rebecca Garden, Dr. Travis Hobart, and Professor Edward McArdle.”