On Friday April 17, the School of Public Affairs hosted a webinar to showcase the variety of expertise and approaches taken by our faculty in understanding responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. Five faculty members were featured panelists: Deserai Crow, Barbara Paradiso, Paul Taylor, Danielle Varda and Chris Weible. Lisa VanRaemdonck, who directs the School of Public Affairs Institute, moderated the panel. The panelists discussed how their own work can inform critical challenges facing decision-makers. These include how the political environment is shaping the crisis response, the adaptation of first responders and health systems to new demands, as well as the impacts of stay-at-home orders on domestic violence. The panelists also explored some of the questions the pandemic is raising for public affairs research, such as how science is informing policy decisions, how policy enforcement is changing, and what types of new policy and management networks are emerging in the pandemic response.