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Jordan Tralins ’23 inspires national coalition for student vaccine awareness
May 7, 2021
When the U.S. began distributing COVID-19 vaccines this winter, Jordan Tralins ’23 found it odd that her social media feeds didn’t have any factual information about the shots.
“I remember seeing a video on Tik Tok of a nurse fainting after she received it, but the video didn’t explain this nurse was prone to fainting,” she said. “Other than anecdotes and conspiracy theories, there wasn’t much out there. The lack of information specifically targeted toward college students really surprised me.”
Tralins, a Human Biology, Health and Society major, decided to do something about it. She reached out to Olivia Pawlowski ’22, a Biology and Society major with a background in graphic design. Together, they launched accounts on the video-sharing network Tik Tok and the photo-sharing network Instagram to promote reputable scientific literature about the vaccines on platforms r
February 11, 2021
Carolyn Finney, author of “Black Faces White Spaces: Reimagining the Relationship of African Americans to the Great Outdoors,” and scholar-in-residence at the Franklin Environmental Center at Middlebury College, will give a lecture about her nationally recognized work to increase awareness of how privilege shapes who gets to inform and determine policy and action on environmental issues.
Finney is giving the Class of 1945 Lecture, part of the Cornell Botanic Gardens Lecture Series. Her talk will explore this moment of racial reckoning and the creative responses to environmental and social challenges that are emerging.
It is offered in partnership with Ithaca Children’s Garden, The Learning Farm, U.S. Fish and Wildlife, and the Finger Lakes Land Trust, and takes place virtually on Thursday, February 25, 2021, at 6 p.m. It is free and open to the public on Zoom; pre-registration required.