The Sugarbeet Advancement variety trials are agricultural research trials conducted to compare several traits of different sugarbeet varieties. During the growing season, the Sugarbeet Advancement team worked to set up, plant, harvest, and collect da...

Hosted Michigan's 18th annual World Usability Day event in November 2020. 328 people attended the event. The conference offered practical topics that are helpful to IT and user experience (UX) professionals to increase their UX design and/or usabilit...

Created a partnership with the Public Will Campaign and the Traverse Bay CAC to provide a Community Engaged Project as part of an advanced social work practice course, SW866 Leadership in Communities. In 2020, we spent this time on development of thi...

Studying an online intervention delivered to National Guard couples.

Research effort demonstrated the successful use of recycled automotive carbon fiber in a thermoplastic injection molding application. MSU, Vartega, and project partners have shown that a closed-loop supply chain for automotive composites is viable. P...

Drawn primarily from the MSU Broad collection and grounded in matters relevant to our region, InterStates of Mind is an exhibition that takes a critical look at American car culture and the way that the automobile has become a symbol of American valu...

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...

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...

The MSU EDA University Center for Regional Economic Innovation (REI) at the MSU Center for Community and Economic Development is building a new economic development ecosystem by leveraging higher education assets to support the creation and applicati...

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...

YELL provides a curriculum-based program focused on developing advocacy skills, disability identity/pride, and leadership skills, and addresses the impact of ableism, and internalized ableism.  Alongside this experience, it assists faculty/staff/ ser...

Facilitated health and wellness lesson and activity plans for Grit, Glam, and Guts and St. Vincent's Catholic Charities. The goal of the project was to assist students with developing skills in vulnerability, empathy, and empowerment.

Healthy eating and obesity prevention applied research project; multi phase project involving supports for family meals in partnership with Head Start programs and Meals on Wheels programs.

I designed and implemented an intensive one-week virtual summer music education program with colleagues in the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. It was free of charge for all attendees and helped to fill a void with many summer programs cancelled due to th...

Research with oak savanna restoration throughout the upper Midwest, to provide management recommendations for restoration work in this ecosystem. Among these efforts are long-term experiments at the MSU MacCready Reserve and observations of ~100 oak ...

MDE conducted a revision of the certification standards for receiving a license to teach mathematics in grades 5-12. I was part of the team that worked on both the revision and the implementation of these standards.

Supported creation of a 15 minute video for the Historical Society of Michigan's Local History Conference. I provided outline for the project, content and reviewed and suggested revisions. The video highlighted areas of the MSU Libraries that would s...

The MSU EDA University Center for Regional Economic Innovation (REI) at the MSU Center for Community and Economic Development is building a new economic development ecosystem by leveraging higher education assets to support the creation and applicati...

Continuation of a funded NIH, NIEHS K01 Career Award to examine the value of low-cost technology development created through a community driven research process in Flint, Michigan around water access, affordability, and quality. 2021 included the ini...

Research Associate MLPBL and data analyst on the efficacy study The project is funded by Lucas Education Research and integrating science, literacy, and mathematics at an elementary level to support a range of students in learning science that align ...

This is an ongoing standing committee in the field to increase the presence and voice of bipoc communities, specifically native Americans, to build welcoming spaces and collaborative research

The goal of this project is to evaluate and monitoring the Opioid use in Medicaid program.

I’m part of a 6 person committee where we are formulating a communication strategy to encourage community intervention when it comes to the prevention of child sexual abuse. This work is for the public will campaign of Traverse Bay Children’s Advocac...

In partnership with the U.S. Department of Commerce, Economic Development Administration (EDA), and to advance Michigan’s long-term economic recovery from COVID-19, the Michigan State University Comprehensive Economic Recovery Initiative (CERI) was e...

I'm on the comms committee of Public will campaign. We strategize communication for the prevention of child sexual abuse in the Traverse City area.