Education for families eligible for SNAP-Ed on healthy eating and physical activity. Coordination of the USDA Food and Nutrition Service-funded SNAP Education program as part of MSU Extension includes equipping all nutrition instructors and educators...

Our efforts in Michigan has resulted in the dramatic reduction of mutually unresolved instances while surrounding agricultural states have continued to incur multiple case in recent years. Don’t get the wrong impression that stray voltage has gone aw...

I provide services to K-12 districts on promoting strategies for engaging youth as partners in school systems change - academic, school culture, and supportive services for student physical health and psycho-social well-being. This work - a partnersh...

Our goal as an advisory council is to bring ideas and fresh perspectives to the Pres./CEO of the MICPA in an effort to enable that organization to better serve the membership of the Michigan Association of CPAs (a group that includes hundreds and per...

Goals: The purpose of this project is to capture and record a series of traditional folktales as told in their original languages (Fongbe, Goun, and Maxi) and make them available in a variety of digital, written, and visual formats for a broader audi...

This activity was interrupted by the pandemic. The K12 Partnership group was comprised of clinical experience-focused faculty in the Teacher Preparation Program and district and school leaders from key K12 partners. The goals were to: - reduce finan...

Patients in the intensive care unit, need more timely access to palliative and hospice care. The aim of this project was to increase the appropriate and early timeliness of palliative and hospice care consultations in the intensive care unit. Educati...

Costume Design for musical with Meadow Brook Theatre; first full production post-COVID for the institution; research into clothing styles from the early 1960s through late 1970s in the American south; production ran September 8-October 3;

This "project" is part of the Capstone course ITM444 (offered every Spring) where organizations with IT-related needs submit their own project proposals to be staffed by student teams of 4-5 students. We usually attract a range of organizations from...

The Kinship Care Resource Center is one of several community programs in the School of Social Work at Michigan State University. The KCRC serves kinship care families across the state by providing information and referrals to resources and services f...

Developed and carried out a professional learning (PL) approach to support middle school science teachers support of students' motivation in the context of science instruction aligned with the Next Generation Science Standards. The PL included a 3-da...

The goal of the current research is to develop the M-PLANS (Motivation - Planning Lessons to Activate eNgagement in Science) toolkit and professional development model for supporting student motivation and engagement in middle school science classroo...

Field placements for social work students.

I serve on the Board of Directors of the Michigan Association of Certified Public Accountants (MICPA). In that capacity, I advise on how the MICPA can best serve its members, the CPA profession, and the public they serve.

This initiative provided professional learning support for in-service teachers to improve the teaching and learning of science specifically and STEM more broadly. Teachers in the Detroit Public Schools Community District were the primary participants...

tarted in 2011 to introduce students at Detroit’s Benjamin Carson High School to careers in medicine, the Future DOcs program has grown to include the Macomb and Lansing regions. Future DOcs exposes high school students interested in pursuing a care...

Why: The Michigan Good Food Charter is an action and advocacy framework that promotes collaboration to advance a “good food system” in Michigan, that is a thriving food economy distinguished by equity, health, and sustainability. The Charter was in...

Worked with middle school science teachers (and other motivation researchers and science education experts) to co-design and test professional learning to aid middle school science teachers in supporting students' motivation in engagement.

The MI Diaries project collects "audio diaries" from participants across Michigan (ages 3 and up). We draft new prompts each week, with the aim of offering participants a space to be authentic and reflective - many diarists report that participating ...

The Evidence Based Trauma Treatment Certificate provides students with the opportunity to develop competencies in working with individuals who have experienced trauma and implementing an evidence-based practice. Students will choose to focus their ce...

Academic Year programs for gifted children in grades 6-9 taught by MSU faculty. The curriculum is accelerated for middle and early HS students to complete credit based classes in math, english and foreign languages. Students will complete four to fiv...

Support a cohort of Michigan-based hospitals and healthcare systems to advance their procurement of healthy, local foods from a diverse array of community based farm and food businesses. Convene partners, participate in group activities, conduct surv...

I think I spend about 10% of my time providing informal and formal consultation to state agencies, education stakeholder organizations (e.g., EdTrust Midwest, LAUNCH Michigan, 313Reads, etc.), as well as to other Michigan organizations. This is all o...

Working with MSU Extension and vaccine division of the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services. Provided public health education and updates on current vaccine recommendations.

The MI Diaries project collects “audio diaries” from participants across the state. Diarists hear selected stories from other diarists each week, suggest topics or questions to ask other participants, and share their own experiences about a range...