The Office of Engagement Initiatives has awarded $1,307,580 in to 25 teams of faculty and community partners that are integrating community-engaged learning into majors and minors across the university.
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.
Funded projects for 2019-20:
: Transforming the applied math curriculum to prepare students for diverse career paths solving real-world problems.
: Developing a student exchange program with a college in Tanzania to spur the design of accurate, reliable and robust medical equipment that works in multiple contexts.
: Teaching students to communicate scientific knowledge that promotes local diversity and inspires an interest in the natural world.
: Closely engaging stakeholders with a cross-course collaboration that inspires awareness of climate adaptation and design innovation.
: Introducing students to a leadership model centered on shared visions, aligned goals and coordinated actions.
: Partnering with entrepreneurs, NGOs, universities and rural communities in developing countries to tackle challenges in business, agriculture and natural resource management.
: Exploring issues around the criminal justice system and incarceration policy through first-hand experiences with prison education.
: Preserving, teaching and documenting endangered and indigenous languages in New York state.
: Designing a community-engaged curriculum for Cornell’s new Department of Global Development.
: Introducing an intergenerational mentoring program and expanding language learning at NFLC in southern India.
: Using community-engaged engineering to design for resilience during Puerto Rico’s reconstruction.
: Activating 4-H youth participants in PRYDE scholars’ research.
: Researching, designing and testing new hands-on physics exhibits that engage the public.
: Creating new community-engaged learning opportunities for Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies students.
: Designing Cornell’s first introductory course on the “internet of things”: Technology and Engagement.
: Mobilizing students to combat the consequences of unemployment in the community through legal advocacy.
: Preparing students to be socially engaged scientists and expanding the pool of experienced science communicators working with local organizations.
: Leveraging science and traditional ecological knowledge for environmental education.
: Engaging with reconciliation and development efforts in Israel and the Palestinian territories and sub-Saharan Africa.
: Bringing students to United Nations negotiations on climate change policy.
: Taking an interdisciplinary approach to social entrepreneurship by creating an aquaponics system for growing organic vegetables and fish in Chile.
: Demonstrating how biomaterials scientists, engineers and orthopedic surgeons can partner to improve patient outcomes.
: Promoting agricultural sustainability and community resilience through school programs in rural Chile.
: Bringing engineering students together so they can take a team approach to finding sustainable solutions to real-world problems.
: Teaching students advanced survey methods and analysis through a national opinion poll.
Ashlee McGandy is content strategist in the Office of Engagement Initiatives.
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