Starting in April 2022, the Reading Lab joined ARiEAL in welcoming four scholars from Ukraine, two of whom continue their research in the Reading Lab. Olga Dvorova, a PhD student in Philology from Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv is working on a SSHRC-funded project exploring the impact of the pandemic on reading skills in higher education. Mariia Hryntus, a Master’s student in Computational Linguistics from Lviv Polytechnic National University is working on a project on the language of trauma as it emerges during the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine.