Grant unites humanities and health sciences for infectious disease coursework

(October 15, 2024)

Virginia Tech News

Professors in the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences are teaming up with colleagues in the College of Science and the Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine for the project, titled Human Dimensions of Infectious Disease.

Their work is funded by a $50,000 Human Connections Grant from the National Endowment of the Humanities, which seeks to expand the role of the humanities through interdisciplinary partnerships. Collectively, their areas of expertise include topics such as health communication, health and medicine rhetoric, biomedical ethics, history of medicine, global-international health issues, biology, and infectious disease modeling.