VaCS has been awarded the Community Outreach Award at the 2023 Graduate Diversity & Inclusion Recognition and Awards Celebration!  This was awarded on behalf of the Graduate School Office of Inclusion & Student Engagement and the Graduate and Professional Student Diversity Council.

VaCS Co-director Dr. Kara Rode Webber accepted the award on behalf of VaCS (below). Read more about the award here.

We’d like to spotlight one of our outstanding undergraduate volunteers, Flavia Scott, who has won a 2023 Florence Halpern Award partly due to her involvement with VaCS.  This award recognizes Human Ecology students for outstanding commitment and accomplishments in leadership toward addressing the needs of others. Congrats Flavia!

VaCS member Dr. Alyssa Kaganer presented a poster for VaCS at the 2023 NYS Public Health Partnership Conference. Her poster was entitled, “Vaccination Conversations with Scientists: Compassionate, science-backed conversations improve community perception of COVID-19 vaccination”.

Read about VaCS in the Cornell Chronicle!

Vaccination Conversations with Scientists, a group of more than 100 Cornell scientist volunteers educating the public about vaccines, is reporting success in shifting unvaccinated people’s beliefs about the shots.

Source: Volunteer scientists change opinions about vaccines

In Spring of 2022, Ithaca College TV station ICTV interviewed us. Watch below!

Check out our interview with ESAL (Engineers and Scientists Acting Locally)

Source: VaCS: Student-led COVID vaccine outreach