Welcome to the InFocus Online Town Hall at Moravian University! Approximately 300 students from 22 courses representing diverse disciplines have been hard at work, developing research projects that link the topic of each course with the urgent questions and challenge areas of InFocus: War, Peacebuilding and the Just Society; Poverty and Inequality; Sustainability; Health and Health Care. If this is your first experience with InFocus, and the InFocus Town Hall, see this short film below to learn more!

The InFocus Town Hall brings together students, Moravian faculty and expert consultants from the wider community to hear and learn from one another. The Town Hall model is a cutting edge initiative that is taking off across higher education.

Check out the various modules in this site that provide you with information to help you navigate this rich opportunity. We all especially can take pride in the beautiful InFocus Town Hall Research Galleries, each one exhibiting the research of 8 - 14 students, and short bios of their Community Expert and Faculty Moderator.

By sharing research, and deliberating about possible actions and advocacy, we contribute to the process of building the knowledge the world needs to meet society's most urgent challenges. Our goal is to come away from this experience with deeper critical thought, appreciation of interdisciplinary learning, and increased confidence in our ability to engage in civic participation. We hope that your action and advocacy plans help you to take this research further, to imagine and possibly develop plans for further steps. This is a critically important way we all contribute to a more peaceful, just and flourishing world. kdb.pr0file.jpg

I'm exceedingly grateful for the leaders of the InFocus Town Hall in 2022: Administrative Support Kayla Holdridge; Faculty Anastasia Thevenin, Cathy Coyne and Karen Groller; and Instructional Technologists Liz Tate and Nathan Furman.

Please leave feedback for our student researchers (you'll see how to do this when you visit the exhibits). Warmest thanks to you all for your service to our students, university and wider community!

Thanks to everyone for their many contributions! Think hard, have fun, and make your voices matter.

Kelly Denton-Borhaug
InFocus Executive Director
Professor, Global Religions Department