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.
This year’s grants, 15 in all, were announced earlier this month by the Office of Engagement Initiatives.
Nine teams received totaling $380,263 to assess the impact of specific community-engaged teaching, learning and research programs. The following projects received funding:
- aims to strengthen the state’s dairy industry by implementing and assessing key community partnerships, workforce development and producer-through-consumer education.
- will be using surveys to understand future opportunities for promoting the conservation of birds of prey.
- is measuring and analyzing Cornell’s socio-economic impact on Tompkins County.
- seeks to understand and document what is needed to achieve more equitable collaborations between science institutions and communities.
- is investigating the educational and research outcomes of conducting child development research in a museum setting.
- will determine if mobile research laboratories effectively engage underrepresented populations in social science research.
- aims to improve the way beginners learn fundamental concepts of computational thinking.
- (2017-18 renewal) evaluates how students’ learning and development has been influenced through participation in agroecological research in Malawi.
- (2018-19 renewal) evaluates the impact of a university-community partnership to strengthen community resiliency and sustainability in New York state’s Rust Belt.
Six projects received totaling $127,441 to involve undergraduates in hands-on research with community partners. Funded projects are:
- builds culinary and stress-management skills through a culturally inclusive after-school club.
- trains high school students to evaluate online science resources and improve related Wikipedia entries.
- documents stories of how respectful, collaborative partnerships led to remarkable outcomes in the coal-mining communities of southern West Virginia.
- measures the effectiveness of nutrition education and outreach at NYC farmers’ markets.
- collaborates on a citizen-science effort to examine the health of sugar maples in New Hampshire forests.
- (2018-19 renewal) empowers K-4 students to take charge of their brain development.
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