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In late 2019, the novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) quickly began to spread across the globe and by March 2020, the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic. Since then, academic and research institutions across California and the world have leveraged their resources to respond to the crisis. The stories that follow represent just a few of the many ways that some of California’s preeminent educational and research institutions rapidly pivoted their resources, expertise, and research efforts to respond the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. These highlights are by no means meant to be a comprehensive inventory of pandemic related response and research efforts, but rather, they offer a snapshot of the breadth of the ways that these organizations mobilized to respond to a complex and far-reaching…