My summer 8 week program will involve teaching advanced high school students (those having had AP Chemistry), real world process chemistry (organic) activities. They will be working with an industrial sponsor on this research who has contracted MSUSA...

Curated a free monthly concert series presented by the East Lansing Public Library.

One of my summer classes partnered with Communities in Schools to support their summer programs, specifically with their Reading Buddies program.

Students worked with local non-profit organizations to draft a couple grant proposals

Audience: Class of 2026 for both Lansing School District & Waverly Community Schools. Purpose: Career Exploration is one of the pillars of the federal GEAR UP Grant, and the work plan we follow. Goals: Created a poll to discuss career specific para...

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...

THis project tried to better understand the best ways to engage people in risk reduction behaviors for Guinea Worm.

Worked as the instructor for a capstone project course for the Certificate in Quantitative Risk Analysis (cQRA) program offered to Accident Fund (AF) Group employees. The 8 week course introduces enrolled AF employees to real data analysis. Each stud...

Audience: Class of 2026 for both Lansing School District & Waverly Community Schools Purpose: Career Exploration is one of the pillars of the federal GEAR UP Grant, and the work plan we follow. Goals: Created and exhibited an original slide show, ...

This study aims to investigate educational, organizational, and computational factors to mitigate human replacement by robots in manufacturing settings. The results from this study will inform the development of new robotic technologies that enable a...

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...

Design, development and delivery of the 16th annual iteration of continuing education program for the railway industry, including presentations and outreach to promote the program.

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...

Audience: Class of 2026 for both Lansing School District Purpose: Career Exploration (with Finance emphasis for this workshop) is one of the pillars of the federal GEAR UP Grant, and the work plan we follow. Goals: Created and exhibited an "Extreme...

IMPART Alliance is a statewide program with an institutional home in the College of Osteopathic Medicine/Family and Community Medicine. Its primary purpose is to assist the state of Michigan with developing an infrastructure that builds and supports ...

Dr. Clare Luz, director of IMPART Alliance, Co-chairs this Advisory Committee. It is comprised of stakeholders across MI representing all care settings, payors, state funded programs, and all populations served. It includes representatives from state...

This project has developed as a result of a partnership between IMPART Alliance and PHI, described above. In addition to establishing a statewide Direct Care Worker Coalition, chaired by Dr. Clare Luz, EJEC has a Coalition and Policy Steering Committ...

MSU AgeAlive is a program within the College of Osteopathic Medicine that is dedicated to building a central, coordinated aging hub at MSU that can bring together aging-related research, education, and community outreach and engagement. Dr. Clare Luz...

Related to lifelong learning, AgeAlive has hosted the weekly Town & Gown Lecture Series for almost two years. It is another partnership between AgeAlive, the MSU Social Science Scholars Program and the East Lansing Prime Time Seniors Program. Because...

I work with my community partner (MOASH) to create a toolkit to teach consent to K-5 students in Michigan Public Schools. Because of the age-range, it is focused a lot on friendship and respecting boundaries, and recognizing emotions in others, check...

We had received a grant to produce a series of training modules meant to train key sport stakeholders (administrators, coaches and parents) about how to prevent abuse in youth sports. We have partnered with the National Alliance for Youth Sports as t...

Metro Community Development is a coordinated continuum of care organization and the convening fiduciary for a network of Genesee County organizations and agencies providing housing and services funding for homeless families and individuals. NCI was c...

Audience: Class of 2026 for both Waverly Community Schools Purpose: Career Exploration is one of the pillars of the federal GEAR UP Grant, and the work plan we follow. Goals: Created and exhibited an original slide show, spotlight young BIPOC entre...

USAID Empowered Youth is a five-year activity funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) to empower Kenyan youth ages 18-24 years old and adolescent girls ages 15-19 years old by increasing their prospective economic opp...