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06/8/2026
This past academic year, Gabrielle Kroger, a Master of Public Health (Global Health) student, was named a Graduate Sustainability Fellow, working with the Center for Public Engagement with Science (PEWS). One of her greatest passions is engaging and educating others, whether that be other students or community members, about important topics in science. Specifically, she is passionate about environmental and sustainability topics and wanted to bring more awareness to different initiatives, projects, and research that take place at UC and in Cincinnati as a whole during this fellowship. For the first half of her fellowship, in collaboration with the Office of Sustainability, she planned a Poster Session and Community Organization Tabling event during the PEWS Sustainability@UC week. This event brought together 16 sustainability-related organizations, as well as undergraduate, graduate, and postdoctoral students who presented their research related to sustainability. In addition to planning this event, she began collaborating with Abby Cuyler and Dr. Michelle Burbage from the Center for Collaboration on Climate and Community for Health (C4H) to write a children’s book focused on themes of environmental health and climate health. She plans to continue to work on this project with PEWS and C4H throughout the summer semester and has become a PEWS Graduate Affiliate. Overall, her experience with PEWS was invaluable, as she had the opportunity to connect with people at UC and across Cincinnati, and engage in important conversations about the most pertinent topics surrounding sustainability and environmental health. As she finishes up her last few semesters of her Master of Public Health, she plans to continue to collaborate with the many organizations she connected with and use this experience to further her goal of creating meaningful and impactful changes within communities.
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