• Royce Fellowship
Alexandra
Linn

Concentration 

History of Science

Award Year 

2012
Stemming the Anti-Vaccination Sentiment: Using Historical Research to Increase Awareness and Understanding about Vaccines

Faculty Sponsor: Richard Bungiro

Alex compiled historical research on the vaccines that are currently recommended for children by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. She used this research to create accessible disease information sheets for each vaccine, and hoped that these sheets would provide persuasive historical accounts to help address the misinformation, suspicion and apprehension about vaccines. The project was conducted at the Historic Library of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia and at Brown University.

Alex was a 7th/8th grade science teacher at Horace Mann Academy in Chicago, IL. She is currently a Medical Student at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.