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Science continues in Haiti!
From a relative’s home in a suburb of Port-au-Prince, environmental engineer Evens Emmanuel teaches students and convenes colleagues by phone and laptop to avoid the armed gangs that have plagued Haiti’s capital since the 2021 assassination of then-President Jovenel Moïse. The professor at Quisqueya University has endured crushing losses: His parents, along with an uncle and aunt, were killed in Haiti’s catastrophic magnitude 7 earthquake in January 2010; thugs evicted him and his wife from their Port-au-Prince home in 2023; then, just last year, a younger brother was slain in a shooting. Yet Emmanuel, 67, has chosen to remain in the struggling Caribbean island nation. “It would be very difficult to leave knowing my competence could give something to my country,” he says.