Serve as project consultant for NWCHIR, a partnership of health and community providers that serve the health needs of individuals across 10 counties in northwest Michigan: Antrim, Benzie, Charlevoix, Emmet, Grand Traverse, Kalkaska, Leelanau, Manist...

The institute supports the preparation of university students for employment in child welfare agencies, the partnership between universities and agencies to build the workforce, action teams to address workforce challenges, and leadership development...

Panel moderated by Dr. Jake Rowan about the relationship between health and art. The discussion featured poet and storyteller Carolyn White, dulcimer maker and musician Doug Berch, and sculptor and painter Richard Tanner.

Equity in the Classroom Conference focused on the impact of the pandemic on K-12 students. Dorinda Carter, chairperson of the Department of Teacher Education, spoke to all MI colleges and universities about preparing for students who have been away f...

Continued development and implementation of MSU’s Grand Rapids Innovation Park, which is focused on health care innovation and includes a startup incubator managed by the MSU Research Foundation/Spartan Innovations. Work included recruitment of ten...

An NSF-funded project designed to improve the ability of artificial-intelligence-based automatic speech recognition systems (ASRs) to understand the speech of people who stutter. The project has implications for improving employment opportunities and...

MSU teacher candidates, in collaboration with Detroit Public Schools' On the Rise Academy, Detroit Downtown Boxing Club and Center for Success, provide summer school instruction and enrichment programming.

Diversity, inclusion, and equity activities have focused on improving the lives of poor smallholder farmers in West Africa. In much of West Africa, women are typically responsible for planting and farming tasks such as weeding, harvesting, and post-h...

Conduct participatory research including scenario workshops, interviews, and planning. Co-create products based on research results for community audiences, attend community events, create tools for community use.

Provided an educational field day about the link between soil health and drainage. Organized and taught at the field day, which included a live demonstration of a tile plow for a saturated buffer installation. Attended by 62 participants, including i...

Conducting a five-year participatory, utilization-focused evaluation of the Flint Leverage Points Project. Working collaboratively with researchers and community members, identified evaluation questions of greatest importance to stakeholders and work...

The Alianza is a national, intergenerational network that uses research, storytelling, and advocacy to uplift Indigenous/Latinx youth visibility, building a movement to replace youth injustice systems with long-term solutions rooted in cultura, comun...

Provide ongoing feedback and evaluation of a community collaborative approach to violence prevention in Detroit.

Provide ongoing feedback and evaluation of a community collaborative approach to violence prevention in Jackson.

Operation UNITED (Unknown Names Identified Through Exhumation and DNA) is a joint effort by the Detroit Police Department and the FBI to exhume unidentified individuals and obtain a bone sample for DNA testing in an attempt to scientifically identify...

Ubuntu Dialogues is an international partnership between Stellenbosch University Museum in South Africa and MSU (UOE, MSU Museum, African Studies Center, Matrix, and the Colleges of Social Science and Arts and Letters). The focus is on fostering deep...

Develop and share actionable information and resources for PFAS-impacted communities.

USAID Empowered Youth was funded by the U.S. 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 opportunities and building the c...

In collaboration with Wharton Center for the Performing Arts, Department of Theatre students read and evaluated scripts submitted by mid-Michigan high school students for a mentorship experience with professional playwrights and a full production.

Stepping Up is a national initiative administered by the National Association of Counties, the Council of State Governments Justice Center and the American Psychiatric Foundation to reduce the number of people with serious mental illness in jails. (s...

This project was in partnership with New Level Sports Ministries to develop an urban garden in a neighborhood in Battle Creek, Michigan. The goal is to create a community of gardeners to help thwart hunger among the citizens of inner-city "food deser...

Through the mentorship program, created a partnership between the greater advertising community and the College of Communication Arts and Sciences.

Host or participate in after-school STEM and/or math festivals at local elementary schools.

Street Teams are student-run, creative collaborations within ComArtSci. Interdisciplinary groups of students partner with nonprofit organizations and assist them with media projects. They have real-world learning opportunities while giving back to th...

Provided an eight-day summer residential camp for 60 high school students from across Michigan interested in medicine and health care-related careers. Strive to recruit a diverse cohort of students each year to increase diversity among medical studen...