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Event Series: Covid-19 "Remote Teaching in Times of COVID-19"
Date: February 2, 2021 Time : 12pm-1pm CST Speakers: Christina Bollo (UIUC, School of Architecture) Caitlin Clarke (UIUC, Department of Sociology)...
Water, Community, and the Culture of Owning
Speaker: Eric T. Freyfogle Professor Freyfogle is the author or editor of a dozen books dealing with issues of humans and nature, some focused on legal aspects, others reaching to larger cultural and social issues. In this talk he will explore why American legal and cultural systems of water use and...
WHO, The Center for Health Informatics, and COVID-19
Speaker: Ian Brooks This presentation will describe the Center for Health Informatics, what it means to be the WHO/PAHO Collaborating Center on Information Systems for Health and how the center is helping WHO respond to the COVID-19 pandemic and infodemic. Professor Brooks is the Director of the Center for Health Informatics at...
Toxic Water and Corroded Trust: Stress and Mental Health in the Flint Water Crisis
Speaker: Courtney Cuthbertson Using the sociological framing of the stress process model, this presentation will share findings from a mixed methods study of mental health among Flint residents during the water crisis. Sociological examination of the Flint water crisis demonstrates how mental health outcomes and the experience of...