The Cuban-American polymath's its-never-done mentality guides her studio and design collective, Piscina, whose modular furniture pieces return to ICFF this week.
Piscina, a design collective based in Brooklyn and led by Natalie Shook, won awards for "Best in Show" and "Best Emerging Designer" at the 2022 ICFF Editors Awards.
Virtual Conference Brings Together Global Experts to Tackle COVID-19 “Infodemic”
Health behavior experts come together to put forth an agenda that uses social media to solve public health problems
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The COVID-19 pandemic that seized the world last year created an unprecedented global health crisis. The pandemic was accompanied by an “infodemic” in which misinformation about the virus and, more recently, COVID-19 vaccines, have run rampant on social media.
Given this dual challenge of the pandemic and misinformation about it, the UConn Center for mHealth and Social Media is hosting its fifth annual conference on the topic of COVID-19 misinformation. The entirely virtual conference will take place on May 13-14.
UConn Researcher Testing How to Persuade People to Take a COVID-19 Vaccine
UConn s Natalie Shook is researching what could be one of the most crucial public health questions in years - how to convince people to get vaccinated against COVID-19.
Researcher Natalie Shook is developing and testing different kinds of messages to see if they can help persuade individuals to get a COVID-19 vaccine. Pictured here is an influenza vaccine at the Student Health and Wellness free clinic on Oct. 23. (UConn photo/Sean Flynn) Copy Link
With the first doses of a COVID-19 vaccine arriving nationwide this week, the big question becomes: what good will it do if not enough people are willing to take it?