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PER(SISTER): INCARCERATED WOMEN OF THE UNITED STATES
- Project Contact: Steven Bridges
- College/MAU: Provost and Academic Affairs
The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world. Furthermore, in the last 40 years the incarceration of girls and women has grown by 834% according to the Prison Policy Initiative. Per(Sister): Incarcerated Women of the United Stat...
Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan
- Project Contact: Steven Bridges
- College/MAU: Provost and Academic Affairs
Making art can be a transformative experience. It helps us to confront and address some of the most pressing issues of our time. Art has the power to shift the way we see and understand the world around us, and the worlds within us. Free Your Mind: A...
Silenced
- Project Contact: Steven Bridges
- College/MAU: Provost and Academic Affairs
Silenced: Voices from Solitary confronts the difficult topic of solitary confinement and isolation within the United States prison system by forwarding the work of a group of talented artists, many of whom have experienced solitary firsthand. Bearing...
Service for the Voice Foundation
- Project Contact: Dimitar Deliyski
- College/MAU: College of Communication Arts and Sciences
Supporting several activities of the Voice Foundation, Philadelphia, PA, which is focuced on improving health care in laryngeal and voice disorders, professional practice in voice and scholarly activities in voice science. The Voice Foundation also e...
Field education internships for social work students
- Project Contact: Julie Navarre
- College/MAU: College of Social Science
Field placements for social work students.
Quilt Index https://quiltindex.org/
- Project Contact: Dean Rehberger
- College/MAU: College of Social Science
Collect and disseminate the work of Quilting around the world.
Adaptive management for grass carp control in Lake Erie
- Project Contact: Kelly Robinson
- College/MAU: College of Agriculture and Natural Resources
Working with agency staff around the Lake Erie basin for continued control of grass carp. We held both in-person and remote meetings to discuss updates to research and control efforts, make plans for future efforts, etc.
Improving Nutrition through the National Training, Technical Assistance, Evaluation & Information Center
- Project Contact: Kolia Souza
- College/MAU: College of Agriculture and Natural Resources
The National Training, Technical Assistance, Evaluation & Information Center (NTAE) is funded by the USDA Gus Schumacher Nutrition Incentive Program (GusNIP). The GusNIP program focuses on reducing food insecurity, increasing fruit & vegetable intake...
National Child Welfare Workforce Institute
- Project Contact: Cheryl Williams-Hecksel
- College/MAU: College of Social Science
Our purpose is to develop and support a child welfare workforce that can equitably meet the needs of the most vulnerable children and families. NCWWI promotes organizational interventions focused on developing and retaining a diverse and effective wo...
Pollinator Best Management Practices for Apples
- Project Contact: Julianna Wilson
- College/MAU: College of Agriculture and Natural Resources
Worked with a team of researchers and stakeholders to write a set of best management practices for minimizing harm to pollinators in apple orchards. This work was funded as a joint collaboration between USApple and the Honey Bee Health Coalition.
Project ImPACT Pilot Study
- Project Contact: Brooke Ingersoll
- College/MAU: College of Social Science
This was a pilot effectiveness trial examining the potential benefit of training Part C early-intervention providers to use an evidence-based parent-mediated curriculum with children with autism.
Biting Words: A Cultural History of Insect Fear
- Project Contact: Peter Thompson
- College/MAU: Lyman Briggs College
Digital exhibition of the history of mid-20th century American pesticide usage and the fear of insects. The exhibit is offered through the Science History Institute.