Tag: Data and more Data

Volunteering at GrassRoots Garden: How to Grow Individual and Community Food Literacy

Presenter: Gabrielle Wille – English

Co-Presenter(s): Frida Graumann

Faculty Mentor(s): Emily Simnitt

Session: (In-Person) Data Stories—Data and more Data

Most college students are often disconnected from their food sources and are unaware of the positive effects that gardening has on their physical, mental, and emotional health. This project reports our personal experiences of volunteering at Food For Lane County’s GrassRoots Garden, a community-funded garden that primarily grows produce for donation and strives to educate its volunteers. We have detailed the evolution of our understanding of gardening’s role in food insecurity and community food literacy. Inspired by Robin Wall Kimmerer’s Braiding Sweetgrass, our research reveals the reciprocal relationship between individuals or communities and gardening. As much as we can do for a garden, a garden can do for us. Our intention for this project is to inspire more college students to get involved in a community garden to increase their food literacy, as well as raise awareness of the benefits that working in the soil has on all aspects of one’s health.

Underreporting of Epidemic Rebound and Resurgent Malaria In Nine African Countries

Presenter: Idil Osman – Planning, Public Policy and Management

Faculty Mentor(s): Melissa Graboyes

Session: (In-Person) Data Stories—Data and more Data

This project focuses on the underreporting of epidemic rebound and resurgent malaria in nine African countries— The Gambia, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Uganda, Zanzibar and Zimbabwe— over the span of a century. Currently, malaria resurgence and rebound, occurring when malaria returns to a region after having been successfully controlled, have a history of being under-counted and under-reported, especially in the African continent. My research attempts to fill in these gaps by providing an overview and analysis of malaria prevalence from 1920-2020, and documenting unreported cases of malaria resurgence. I collected, organized, and analyzed historical epidemiological data of malaria prevalence and control measures and compiled it into a longer frame– essentially creating an entirely new panel dataset– so I could see longer trends in time and identify instances of rebound. My primary results have shown there to be multiple unreported cases of malaria rebound in my researched countries. This finding not only fills a wide gap in the field of malaria research, but also implicates the nature of data collection methodology and presentation on a global scale. The results will provide a framework in determining cases of resurgent malaria and in shifting the way the WHO and other public health organizations present their epidemiological data.

Volunteering at GrassRoots Garden: How to Grow Individual and Community Food Literacy

Presenter(s): Frida Graumann – English

Co-Presenter(s): Gabrielle Wille

Faculty Mentor(s): Emily Simnitt

Session: (In-Person) Data Stories—Data and more Data

Most college students are often disconnected from their food sources and are unaware of the positive effects that gardening has on their physical, mental, and emotional health. This project reports our personal experiences of volunteering at Food For Lane County’s GrassRoots Garden, a community-funded garden that primarily grows produce for donation and strives to educate its volunteers. We have detailed the evolution of our understanding of gardening’s role in food insecurity and community food literacy. Inspired by Robin Wall Kimmerer’s Braiding Sweetgrass, our research reveals the reciprocal relationship between individuals or communities and gardening. As much as we can do for a garden, a garden can do for us. Our intention for this project is to inspire more college students to get involved in a community garden to increase their food literacy, as well as raise awareness of the benefits that working in the soil has on all aspects of one’s health.