In Review

Photograph by J. Adam Fenster

COMMUNITY CONVERSATION: Medical Center physicians Terace Thomas (left) and Jennifer Riche answer questions from local middle school students in the classroom of Alyssa Rutherford ’19W (MS) during an event to announce a new science curriculum focused on COVID-19 that was developed as a partnership between the Warner School of Education and the School of Medicine and Dentistry.

The project aims to give Rochester-area students in grades 7 to 12 the opportunity to learn about and cope with COVID-19 and to create a diverse network of teachers and schools to help youth explain the virus’s impact on their communities.

“We want to empower youth to act as science advocates and influencers in their circles and communities, so that they can do their part in keeping the Greater Rochester community healthy and safe,” says April Luehmann, associate professor and director of the science education program at the Warner School.

She is leading the project with Paul Levy, the Charles Ayrault Dewey Professor of Medicine and chair of the Department of Medicine at the School of Medicine and Dentistry.