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Architecture students volunteer at the Enfield Food Distribution Center. The visit served as participatory research for their speculative design projects.
A multidisciplinary project to design a new facility and community garden for the Enfield Food Distribution Center – which has seen demand skyrocket since 2020 – is among eight teams of Cornell faculty, students and community partners to receive Engaged Research Grants from the Einhorn Center for Community Engagement.
A&S faculty are among twenty-five faculty and academic staff from nine Cornell colleges and units are Engaged Faculty Fellows for the 2023-24 academic year.
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Environment and Sustainability students visit the Ithaca Area Wastewater Treatment Facility. IAWWTF is a key community partner in a project studying contaminants in Cayuga Lake.
The funded community-engaged learning projects provide opportunities for students to excavate ancient Pompeii, establish a community garden in Moshi, Tanzania and more.
Two Arts and Sciences professors are among the 13 Cornell faculty members receiving Community-Engaged Practice and Innovation Awards from the David M. Einhorn Center for Community Engagement.
A team from Literatures in English and partner organizations is creating an inclusive, welcoming, anti-racist youth media network thanks to a grant from the David M. Einhorn Center for Community Engagement.
From teaching food science at the Ithaca Farmers Market to researching how youth feel about their race and ethnicity, this year’s Engaged Faculty Fellows are demonstrating the range of work that’s possible through community-engaged learning and research. The 2021-22 cohorts include 15 faculty from eight Cornell schools and colleges.
Joseph Margulies, professor of the practice of law and government, has been awarded the 2021 George D. Levy Faculty Award for his work to break down barriers for previously incarcerated people in Tompkins County.
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Brianna Johnson ’21, a student researcher on a Cornell team working to increase food security for local residents.
Cornell faculty and students are teaming up with community partners in Tompkins County to address opioid use, increase food security, build a greener construction industry and share stories of Ithaca’s Black history pioneers. The four teams received Engaged Research Grants, totaling more than $192,000, from the Office of Engagement Initiatives (OEI).
<div> <div> <p> The Office of Engagement Initiatives (OEI) recently awarded <a href="http://engaged.cornell.edu/grant/engaged-curriculum-grants/">Engaged Curriculum Grants</a> to 19 teams of faculty and community partners that are developing community-engaged learning courses, majors and minors across the university. </p></div></div>
<p> A total of 20 faculty members from eight colleges have been named <a href="https://engaged.cornell.edu/program/faculty-fellowship/">Engaged Faculty Fellows</a>, committed to advancing community-engaged learning and scholarship at Cornell and within their academic disciplines.</p><p> The program is offered through the Office of Engagement Initiatives (OEI). Nearly 100 faculty members have become fellows since the program launched in 2013.</p>
<p> Fourteen teams of faculty and community partners have received <a href="https://engaged.cornell.edu/grant/engaged-research-grants/">Engaged Research Grants</a> from the Office of Engagement Initiatives to increase undergraduate involvement in research that strengthens the well-being of communities.</p>
<p>Twenty-four faculty members, representing six colleges and the Cornell University Library, have been named to the <a href="http://engaged.cornell.edu/program/faculty-fellowship/">Engaged Faculty Fellowship Program</a>.</p><p>The 2019-20 cohort, the largest in the seven-year history of the program, joins more than 50 other faculty fellows dedicated to advancing community-engaged learning at Cornell and within their respective fields.</p>
<p>The Office of Engagement Initiatives has awarded $1,307,580 in <a href="http://engaged.cornell.edu/grant/engaged-curriculum-grants/">Engaged Curriculum Grants</a> to 25 teams of faculty and community partners that are integrating community-engaged learning into majors and minors across the university.</p><p>This year’s awards involve 99 Cornell faculty and staff from 46 departments. The 39 community partners are from 10 countries; 11 projects are based in New York state.</p>
<p>Cornell student and faculty researchers and their community partners will use this year’s Engaged Cornell research grants to study Cornell’s socio-economic impact on Tompkins County, whether mobile research labs effectively engage underrepresented populations, and whether farmer-led research in Malawi influenced student learning and development.</p><p>This year’s grants, 15 in all, were announced earlier this month by the Office of Engagement Initiatives.</p>
Fourteen projects include partners from New York state communities – from Rochester to Ithaca to New York City – while seven projects include international partners.
<p>Recently awarded Engaged Graduate Student Grants will support 21 Cornell doctoral students and their community partners researching a range of topics, including arts and agriculture, education and the environment, health and history.</p><p>Grant recipients come from both the Ithaca and Cornell Tech campuses and represent 15 fields of study – the most since the program launched in 2016, with a particular increase in projects from the social sciences.</p>
<p> </p><p>It takes more than just hard work to turn an idea for advancing social justice into a successful reality. It also takes inspiration, a strong network and a lot of support, encouragement and advice.</p>
