{"id":5473,"date":"2020-07-27T09:56:19","date_gmt":"2020-07-27T14:56:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/all-in-wisconsin-new\/?post_type=campus_story&#038;p=5473"},"modified":"2020-07-27T09:56:19","modified_gmt":"2020-07-27T14:56:19","slug":"grant-to-fund-new-uw-eau-claire-certificate-in-humanities-health-research","status":"publish","type":"campus_story","link":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/all-in-wisconsin\/story\/grant-to-fund-new-uw-eau-claire-certificate-in-humanities-health-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Grant to fund new UW-Eau Claire certificate in humanities, health research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/all-in-wisconsin-new\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/378\/2020\/07\/EAU_20191114-Biology-006.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5475 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/all-in-wisconsin-new\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/378\/2020\/07\/EAU_20191114-Biology-006-1024x439.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of UW-Eau Claire biology class - Students work on a lab in Nora Mitchell's biology class.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"439\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5476\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5476\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/all-in-wisconsin-new\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/378\/2020\/07\/EAU_Louisa_Rice_2011-three-four-portrait.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5476 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/all-in-wisconsin-new\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/378\/2020\/07\/EAU_Louisa_Rice_2011-three-four-portrait-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of UW-Eau Claire's Dr. Louisa Rice\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/all-in-wisconsin\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/378\/2020\/07\/EAU_Louisa_Rice_2011-three-four-portrait-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/all-in-wisconsin\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/378\/2020\/07\/EAU_Louisa_Rice_2011-three-four-portrait.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5476\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Louisa Rice<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The global pandemic has provided insight into how human behavior affects critical health care decisions, says Dr. Louisa Rice, professor and chair of the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire\u2019s history department.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think what we\u2019re finding is that the impact of the disease goes far beyond understanding the medical science of it,\u201d Rice says. \u201cIt is having uneven consequences that are grounded in histories of structural racism and xenophobia; it\u2019s raising ethical and philosophical questions about the equitable provision of and access to health care; it\u2019s showing how human behavior has profound effects on the progression of an epidemic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>These issues are best addressed by combining humanities and health research, Rice says, and starting as early as next year, UW-Eau Claire students will have the opportunity to better immerse themselves in the field.<\/p>\n<p>Rice has been awarded a $35,000 National Endowment for the Humanities grant to develop an Integrative Health Humanities Certificate Program at UW-Eau Claire. NEH received 121 applications for funding and made 17 awards nationally \u2014 a 14% funding rate.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uwec.edu\/news\/news\/neh-grant-to-fund-new-certificate-combining-humanities-health-research-4294\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The global pandemic has provided insight into how human behavior affects critical health care decisions, says Dr. Louisa Rice, professor and chair of the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire\u2019s history department. \u201cI think what we\u2019re finding is that the impact of the disease goes far beyond understanding the medical science of it,\u201d Rice says. \u201cIt is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":5475,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","institution":[96],"story_category":[],"class_list":["post-5473","campus_story","type-campus_story","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","institution-uw-eau-claire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/all-in-wisconsin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/campus_story\/5473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/all-in-wisconsin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/campus_story"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/all-in-wisconsin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/campus_story"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/all-in-wisconsin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/all-in-wisconsin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5473"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/all-in-wisconsin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/all-in-wisconsin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"institution","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/all-in-wisconsin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/institution?post=5473"},{"taxonomy":"story_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/all-in-wisconsin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/story_category?post=5473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}