I participated in the 2020 DAPCEP-MEEP, which places pre-college students from the Detroit area in activities designed to attract them to STEM fields. I designed an activity for grade 10-11 students on making informed choices related to renewable ene...

This is a HHS, office of minority health, funded project to determine whether claiming (receipt) of Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) results in decreased risk and increase protective factors for adverse childhood experiences. A secondary aim is to det...

We produce workshops for employed child welfare professionals in Michigan to promote ongoing learning and skill development to support the competency of the workforce. This is supported by the Michigan Department of Heath and Human Services. We condu...

I started the RSO STATCOM (=Statistics in the Community) at MSU. Student organizations like this exist at other universities and are recognized by the professional organizations American Statistical Associations. Students provide free statistical co...

I led a team of students to participate in Operation UNITED which is a grassroots effort by the Detroit Office of the FBI and the Detroit Police Department to identify homicide victims from cases that have gone cold. These individuals are exhumed and...

Stress can have negative detrimental physical, emotional, psychological, and spiritual consequences for nursing staff. Organizations have a responsibility to provide low-risk, evidence based, integrative techniques to help reduce stress and compassio...

Background and Significance: Low levels of health literacy can have a detrimental effect on a patient’s ability to navigate the complex healthcare system. Healthcare systems and providers must work to make healthcare more accessible to all the popula...

SS2021 MC384: Metropolitan Societies. This course had 23 students and was taught remotely; it was taught as a student-led civic engagement project, supported by a grant (though none of the money was spent in this course, but a follow up over the summ...

Working with ACCESS in Dearborn to understand the Arab ethnicity’s relationship to whiteness and advocate for its categorization as a racially separate minority group.

This project conducted 60 interviews with stakeholders in Michigan from the areas of public policy, agriculture, energy, affected communities, and experts in agriculture and entomology. It was part of a fall 2020 capstone project for the Science, Tec...

Evaluation of a Bureau of Justice Assistance funded study of the effects of a mentoring program on participants. At least monthly participation to shape program development and coordinate research with program delivery.

With a team of 7 NGOs serving beginning farmers, 6 extension educators and 5 members from Center for Regional Food Systems and myself we are developing curriculum that engages beginning farmer by providing technical information on production and mark...

Field placements for social work students.

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...

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 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...

Immigration Law Clinic represents indigent immigrant clients in all their legal needs: particular focus on victims of domestic violence, trafficking, and other crimes

I co-chair the 313 Reads Evaluation for Equity and Impact table. We meet monthly with a variety of organizations that provide literacy supports to Detroit children and their families. The mission for the table is to create an overall evaluation plan ...

Creating (writing/ developing) a free, publicly available curriculum for infants and toddlers that centers children of color and children in metropolitan environments.

This is a multi-disciplinary research project, including hospital partners, to develop methodologies for improving the overall capacity management practices in a regional health system.

Pre-college students participating in the Detrpit Area Pre-College Engineering Program were invited for a 2 h per day two day workshop at the Plant reserach Lab. Workshop was on photosynthesis. Students were also given a tour of the PRL.

MSU Professors Joe Grimm and Geri Alumit Zeldes worked w/ Publisher Pat Rencher of Urban Aging News that features news on older adults and their caregivers.

Member of the Social Justice Partnership Committee that is led by The Wayne County Regional Educational Service Agency (Wayne RESA) an agency for schools in Wayne County, Michigan. Guiding principles and objectives can be found: https://www.resa.net/...