Our team is in the fourth and final year of an evaluation of Truth, Racial Healing and Transformation of Metro Lansing. At the national level, the goal of TRHT is to "eradicate the belief in a racialized hierarchy of human value and the structural an...

The Office of College Access Initiatives: Project #1 Upward Bound of MSU To prepare college bound high school students for success in post-secondary institutions. To follow and support underrepresented youth in post-secondary institutions. Classes ...

We scheduled and executed 5 days of visits to MSU in Feb and March of 2020, before COVID forced us to cancel the remaining 5 dates of visits to MSU. For the 5 dates, we managed to bring 6th-12th grade students, their teachers and in some occasions f...

Saturday Academies are workshops that take place on MSU's campus, once a month. We were only able to fit one in before COVID shut us down and we had to cancel the remaining 3 Saturday programs. Saturday program was a way to connect our outreach in ...

The summer virtual program was created to fulfill a need for our program to have a summer presence as we had been describing to the students throughout the previous year. They had to attend a certain amount of Saturday programs to be invited to our S...

This charrette was a partnership between DNR-Wildlife Division and the National Charrette Institute; It focused on understanding what residents of Ionia and Montcalm counties know about chronic wasting disease in white tailed deer and what their info...

Pre-College Activity Programming Planning Policy development Practice

Domicology is the study of the economic, social, and environmental characteristics relating to the life cycle of the built environment. Domicologists -Recognize that manmade structures have a life cycle -Examine the life cycle continuum of the bu...

The mission of the MSU Science Festival is to celebrate the many ways science, technology, engineering, art, and mathematics (the STEAM disciplines) touch our everyday lives and shape our future, broaden public access to informal learning environment...

Stakeholder Input for Redeveloping Belle Isle Park Old Zoo Area NCI facilitated a series of online engagements for a partnership between the Michigan Department of Natural Resource’s Parks and Recreation Division (DNR) and the Landscape Architecture ...

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...

Developed an Anishinaabe resource manual with assessed and recommended resources (books, articles, podcasts, videos, etc) that align with the State of Michigan Social Studies Standards; to assist and enhance the role K-12 education plays in respectfu...

Monthly virtual 8th grade classroom meetings via google classroom in classroom in the Lansing School District. Program goals: Help participants reach their goals. Provide information about educational opportunities beyond high school Show alterna...

Provided information gypsy moth, tactics to reduce defoliation and other topics via online and hard copy publications, in -person and online webinars, and direct conversations to assist residents, landowners, forestry professionals, arborists, townsh...

The Capital Area College Access Network is a regional organization in mid-michigan working to with K-16 education, workforce development, and various non-profits with the goal of increasing the percentage of high school graduates with a degree or cer...

Teach, Talent, Thrive (T3) serves as the Career and Educational Advisory Council for Prosperity Region 7. its mission to build a community committed to lifelong learning led by business and community stakeholders to ensure regional prosperity in the ...

Nematode management

Provide training to Michigan Agriculture Environmental Assurance Program technicians and Conservation District staff members about Michigan's water resources and how to conduct an on-farm risk assessment.

Provided logistical and teaching support to faculty/ practitioners who include community engaged teaching and learning in their classrooms.

Science Olympiad is an olympics style competition consisting of 24 individual competitive events for 6-8 grade and 9-12 grade students. STEM focused events in biology, physics, chemistry, and engineering.

The goals of this conference are to highlight critical issues within the Great Lakes; provide the audience with the latest research and management concerning these topic areas and have an interactive question and answer session with speakers and audi...

Introduction to Lakes Online is a six-week course specially designed for lake users, lakefront property owners, and lake managers interested in learning about inland lakes. There are six online units each with closed captioned video lectures, interac...

We provided input to MDNR and USDA APHIS on mute swan management. Mute swans are an invasive species and state and federal agencies are legally obligated to control their numbers. Multiple meetings were held to provide input on potential control stra...

Identification of wood species used in 1910 and 1913 to build Lansing City Rescue Mission. Wood identification using macroscopical features

I am a project associate on Teaching Science Outdoors Urban Partnerships. TSO-UP (Gail Richmond, Principal Investigator) brings elementary teachers to outdoor spaces and allows them to practice science in a variety of habitats, with a focus on activi...