Held on-line and in person forums attended by local officials. Goal was to inform on the parameters of how ARPA funds could be spent and better understand community needs.

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 ...

This non-profit youth support service has been committed to the development of purpose-driven individuals through education, personal growth, arts, industry and sports for many years. I have worked with them to implement a curriculum, together with t...

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 MSU Detroit Center Director worked with faculty from the DOE-PRL to design and conduct focus groups to inform their efforts to develop pipeline projects to expose diverse middle and high school youth to research careers and STEM with a concentrat...

This is a long-term advisory group role in partnership with Wayne State University's Shiffman Medical Library. Shiffman serves as NLM National Outreach Library with the goal of disseminating trusted health care and scientific research information to ...

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

I am the principal investigator of Health in Our Hands. Funded by the Science Education Partnerships Award (National Institutes of Health), this project, lead by CREATE for STEM Institute at Michigan State University in collaboration with the Health ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Designed and taught curriculum to industrial students at AF Group Insurance through our training partnership with them

A series of 4 webinars covered various topics related to pavement treatments, project selection, maximizing value of budgets, benefits and new technologies. The webinars replaced our four regional partnership face-to-face meetings. A fifth webinar wa...

We work with the potato industry to develop new varieties that help the farmers better manage their crops, have better quality and more profitability. We run on-farm trials, hold seminars and field days. We work through the Michigan Potato Industry C...

1.The goal of the project was to introduce 7th through 12th grade students to biological STEM careers in food, energy, and the environment (FEE). Individuals from our STEM-FEE leadership team met once a month for three months via Google Classroom wi...

In 2015, the Michigan Stroke Transitions Trial (MISTT) involved a community-engaged website intervention development project between MSU researchers and community-based stroke stakeholders to develop a user-centered informational website that provide...

follow up on research to document lack of access to water and sanitation in the United States: 1) helped finalize case studies for communities struggling with access to water and sanitation that they can use to advocate for improved access 2) worked...

I do a continuing series of presentations to school and community groups, as well as medical professionals, on concussions and athlete health.

With my coordination the MSU CANR WorldTAP team organized this training virtually with 41 international participants on attendance. This six-day long (Nov 9-14, 2020) training covered various aspects of food safety including food safety policies, the...

Co-Coordinated the annual three-day educational sessions for greenhouse growers in Michigan and beyond

This was a continuation of work started in 2019, a collaboration with Merit Networks and 15 rural, Michigan school districts. This outreach-research activity was designed to understand the repercussions of absent or poor home Internet connectivity on...

The activity is an effort to develop conceptual frameworks, methods, and tools to help overcome the discrepancies in access to high-speed Internet connect in Michigan. This project bagan in 2017. Over this academic year work was primarily on sharing ...