Neuroscience & Behavior student, Tyler Stetson ’21, follows HB220 establishing medical freedom in immunizations. Tyler interviewsDr. Peter Degnan M.D., Medical Director of Health and Wellness at UNH’s Durham campus, in order to get a perspective of how this bill could impact life on campus.

The bill

http://gencourt.state.nh.us/bill_status/billText.aspx?sy=2021&id=202&txtFormat=pdf&v=current

CDC resource on how COVID vaccines work

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/different-vaccines/how-they-work.html

Information on UNH’s COVID testing lab:

https://youtu.be/dlIt-4ko_5Q

Neuroscience & Behavior student, Tyler Stetson ’21, follows HB220 establishing medical freedom in immunizations. Tyler interviews experts working for UNH’s Research Integrity Services, Julie Simpson, Melissa McGee and Susan Jalbert. We discuss the Institutional Review Board (IRB), risk assessment in human subject research, and ask these experts in risk assessment how they feel about the speed at which COVID-19 vaccines were developed.

The bill

http://gencourt.state.nh.us/bill_status/billText.aspx?sy=2021&id=202&txtFormat=pdf&v=current

CDC information on how vaccines work:

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/different-vaccines/how-they-work.html

Information on the Institutional Review Board at UNH:

https://www.unh.edu/research/institutional-review-board-protection-human-subjects-research-irb

Nature article on COVID vaccine development:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2798-3

UNH Biology student Ella Caughran ’22, follows HB 199: an act including soil health and soil conservation in the state soil conservation plan. She interviews UNH’s Dr. Serita Frey, Professor of Natural Resources & the Environment, about the connection between soil health and climate change.

Resources

· HB 199 an act including soil health and soil conservation in the state soil conservation plan. http://gencourt.state.nh.us/bill_status/billText.aspx?sy=2021&id=374&txtFormat=pdf&v=current

· NHPR Outside/In episode about biodiversity inside the Lee Traffic Circle: http://outsideinradio.org/shows/e23

· The Frey Lab website: http://unh.edu/freylab/

· UN video on soil biodiversity: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbdsHOnd_gw

· And another one for the Soil Science Society of America: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qas9tPQKd8w

· TED Talk on soils: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzZ6ACiXtlE

NASA video on A Year in the Life of Earth’s CO2: https://youtu.be/x1SgmFa0r04