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Abstract The COVID-19 pandemic impacted the world in ways never imagined. Post-secondary education was no exception. When post-secondary educational institutions switched to online teaching almost overnight, experiential learning programs scrambled to adjust. Research conducted during the pandemic reports on the importance of contingency plans for crises, flexibility, and creativity to ensure students completed their experiential learning terms. Drawing on interviews with 9 students, reflective journals from 20 students, and online surveys completed by 13 community partners, this study explores the impact of the pandemic on field placements that are part of an undergraduate Criminology program at a Canadian university. Findings indicate that the pandemic presented unique challenges to students working in criminal justice system and related agencies and that communication, ongoing support, and flexibility helped mitigate some of the stress these students experienced. Unexpected benefits are also discussed. We offer recommendations for experiential learning in Criminology programs based on these experiences. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Cerebral aneurysms that compress cranial nerve VIII can cause hearing loss and imbalance. Hearing function that does not recover after aneurysm occlusion can signal neurological damage with the potential for permanent deafness. A 72-year-old woman presented with gradually worsening left-sided hearing loss and imbalance over a period of 10 years. She was found to have a lesion of the cerebellopontine angle, which proved to be a large fusiform vertebral artery aneurysm with mass effect on cranial nerve VIII. The patient underwent surgical clip occlusion of the vertebral artery distal to the posterior inferior cerebellar artery and proximal to the aneurysm, which no longer filled on catheter angiography. Postoperatively, the patient experienced delayed complete loss of ipsilateral hearing on the third post-operative day. Otherwise, she made a good recovery with improvement in her balance issues. At that time, we suspected that delayed occlusion of a perforating vessel had probably caused irreversible hearing loss. Ten months later, the patient awoke with significant subjective recovery of her hearing. Audiometry confirmed substantial improvement in her hearing likely due to the aneurysm shrinking away from and decompressing the cranial nerve. This case highlights the continued usefulness of vascular occlusion in the management of selected cases of intracranial aneurysms and also that neurological function may recover suddenly, even in very delayed fashion, following treatment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]