Advanced Reporting

From Student to Vaccinator: How Nursing and Medical Students Tackled COVID-19 0
- Advanced Reporting
- May 24, 2021
BY Yulliete JavierJRN 490 Spring 2021 At the start of 2020, university students never thought they’d experience a global pandemic before graduating. Going from regular clinical hours to now vaccinating their community members, nursing and medical students are tasked with helping with the battle against COVID-19 and its spread by administering the vaccines and treating
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Gender affirmation surgeries resume. But trans people still struggle because of the pandemic.0
- Advanced Reporting
- May 24, 2021
BY Mike GaisserJRN 490 Spring 2021 Fifi Dosch, a transgender woman in California, started hormone replacement therapy the day before the state lockdown order in March 2020. She was already socially transitioning, and this was the first step in her medical transition. “[Now] I’m prepping up for bottom surgery and all non-essential surgeries are getting
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A lost burial: The suspected grave of America’s first published Black poet 0
- Advanced Reporting
- May 20, 2021
BY Brianne LeddaJRN 490 Spring 2021 The stones are hidden in underbrush, so obscured that a hiker on the trail nearby – passing only feet away – would miss them. Thorny, waist-high shrubs grow in a circle around the site. The stones rest in a vaguely circular formation, underneath a small tree that bends weeping
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The Push for Plant-Based Options in Long Island Schools 0
- Advanced Reporting
- May 20, 2021
BY Kelly AlvaradoJRN 490 Spring 2021 Parents are looking for ways to reduce another epidemic from affecting their children when they go back to school this fall: obesity. Plant-based options in school might be that solution. Childhood obesity is a serious problem in the United States, according to the U.S. Center for Disease Control and
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Trump, Covid – And Now Biden – Troubles People Seeking Asylum in the US 0
- Advanced Reporting
- May 20, 2021
BY Rabia GursoyJRN 490 Spring 2021 Burcu signed her asylum application and sent it to the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. She had fled from her native country of Turkey in fear of becoming a political prisoner and hoped to start a new life in the U.S. Unfortunately, due to the cuts on funding from
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‘You Gotta Get a Gimmick’: Theatre’s Newest Stage During a Global Pandemic 0
- Advanced Reporting
- May 20, 2021
BY McKenzi Thi MurphyJRN 490 Spring 2021 The show must always go on. The mantra of theatre calls for the opening of the metaphorical red velvet curtain, no matter the problem. But the grim real-life drama of a global pandemic forced theatres across the U.S. to remain dark — except for a single ever-burning bulb
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