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...

The continued construction of the Turfgrass Information File (TGIF) database provides access to the world's literature about the design, construction, and maintenance of grass-like surfaces for use in landscape, utility, and sporting surfaces. This s...

CSS 424 is a project-based, experiential learning course. We foster student-partner projects that serve a variety of purposes; all projects aim to have a "real-world" end product that serves the community partner or broader sustainable agriculture mo...

Documentation, public programming, exhibition development, and virtual programming.

Webinars, public programs, exhibitions, and documentation.

Along with employees of the city of East Lansing (including the diversity officer and head librarian of the public library), planned two virtual events and one in-person event for MSU and the public related to voting and civil rights, and listening t...

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...

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...

Work with the Lansing Regional Sister City Commission to develop a youth initiative to celebrate the assets of youth of diverse backrounds in Lansing Region.

Present in a series of public meetings, recommendations and countermeasures for improving safe movement of pedestrian and bicyclists to/from select schools.

I am part of a group, selected by Gov. Whitmer to study, examine our research and then recommend changes for women and girls in sports in Michigan.

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...

I work with a federally funded program Gosspal against AIDS We go to various black communities and black religious organizations and educate black clergy, youth and others on HIV Recently we have been educating these groups on covid 19 Myths and trut...

I do HIV/HCV education in the state of Michigan to the community but also sit on state boards of Michigan Department of Health and Human Services to make recommendations to the state on policies for HIV and HCV

Co-lead on university wide project seeking APLU IEP designation. Actions include conversations with internal and external stakeholders regarding Michigan State University relationship and initiatives in community and economic development with emphasi...

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 ...

Goal of project is to identify and understand key challenges facing PK-12 schools in Michigan's rural areas. To understand how current state policies relate to these challenges, and identify potential changes in policy that would improve circumstance...

The Michigan Good Food Fund is a $30 million loan fund to support entrepreneurs, particularly women and BIPOC owners, grow their healthy food businesses. Serving low income communities in Michigan is a priority. MSU CRFS provides technical assistance...

The Archivo de Respuestas Emergencias de Puerto Rico, or the Emergency Response Archive of Puerto Rico, is a digital open access repository of Puerto Rican artifacts of disaster pertaining to Hurricanes Irma and María (2017), the Guayanilla earthquak...

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...

The Cube provides a space for diverse ranges of people, places, and communities to participate in communications of all kinds, from traditional book production to user experience research to web and app development. With guided faculty mentorship, ou...

This activity involves quarterly meetings focused on fostering innovation and entrepreneurship within mid-Michigan, generally by identifying and or fostering problem-solving partnerships, educating ecosystem partnerships and connecting existing busin...

Our goal as an advisory council is to bring ideas and fresh perspectives to the Pres./CEO of the MICPA in an effort to enable that organization to better serve the membership of the Michigan Association of CPAs (a group that includes hundreds and per...

The MICARES team—which includes electrical engineers, foresters, community organizers, tribal leaders, social scientists, energy policy specialist, indigenous education experts, and technical communicators—works to: • Understand the opportunities an...