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NEWS: ALC contributes chapter to Urban Agroecology book
ALC co-director Martha Caswell and other members of the ALC contributed a chapter to a new book titled
Urban Agroecology, Interdisciplinary Research and Future Directions. The chapter discusses an ongoing participatory action research (PAR) project with urban and peri-urban agroecology project partners in Burlington, Vermont. For years, the ALC has been building a relationship and working with the Vermont Community Garden Network, the Intervale Center, New Farms for New Americans, and the Catamount Farm. Components of this PAR process have resulted in participatory mapping and inventorying of agroecological practices with the Intervale Center, student design projects facilitated through PSS courses taught by Stephanie Hurley and Annie White, and upcoming collaborations for a summer research fellowship with VEPART to tackle pest management challenges.
As of Wednesday afternoon, 21 caregivers at Providence Kodiak Island Medical Center had received the Pfizer vaccine for COVID-19.Â
First in line was Dr. Dana Kerr, an emergency room physician at the hospital who got the vaccine on Tuesday evening. Kerr has been treating the growing wave of patients with the virus over the past few weeks in Kodiak, putting her squarely into the first tier of Alaskans designated to get the vaccine.Â
She also volunteered, having tracked the vaccineâs development for months with pharmacist Stephanie Hurley and others at the hospital.Â
âWe had been talking quite a bit about it since May. ⦠They had asked who would be willing to take it first, and I had volunteered,â Kerr said.Â