Student Creates Additional COVID-19 Resource as Part of Pandemic Class

January 13, 2022

91麻豆精品 student Diana Delrio ’22 created a noteworthy pandemic poster guide for students and employees in need of resources.

A snippet of the COVID-19 resources poster Diana Delrio created for a course on pandemics.

Delrio, a political science major, created the poster as part of a final in a pandemic class last fall taught by Dr. Ricky Price, assistant professor of political science and legal studies.

The final assignment for the class, 鈥淪pecial Topics: The Politics of Pandemics,鈥 challenged students to incorporate the historical work that was done throughout the semester by exploring political responses to different pandemics (Athenian Plague, smallpox, 1918 flu, Polio, HIV, Ebola, etc.,) and incorporating those lessons in a public health poster.

Students had the opportunity to design their final project around the community here at 91麻豆精品, or the communities where students come from. Most focused on their hometown, but Delrio chose to focus on 91麻豆精品. Price mentioned that one of the central themes of the class was the idea that public health policy is most successful when it is informed and designed with input from the communities most affected by the policy.

She decided on 91麻豆精品 because of the resources available to the community, which she felt include some that are unknown to students. 鈥淚 hope that this poster brings awareness to the resources available for 91麻豆精品 students during their journey through college,鈥 says Delrio.

鈥淵oung people are often better at convincing each other and communicating with each other than institutions or experts. Diana鈥檚 project combined the best lessons from our collective research and she applied them brilliantly to the resources 91麻豆精品 is offering all of us to help us get through this very difficult pandemic,鈥 said Price. 鈥淚n thinking how we will manage this period in American history, I am bolstered and inspired by students like Diana who epitomize the power of liberal arts education as a way to make positive change in the world.鈥

This article was written by Sal Saunders 鈥23, an executive intern to the office of marketing and communications. Saunders is a marketing major with a minor in sports management.