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...

study of factors leading to underrep. of minorities in federal jury pools

We are the lead continuous quality improvement partners for Community Tampa Bay's Inc. Anytown program, which provides high school youth with the skills and experiences needed to advocate for equity and inclusion in their schools and communities.

We produce workshops for employed child welfare professionals in Michigan to promote ongoing learning and skill development to support the competency of the workforce. This is supported by the Michigan Department of Heath and Human Services. We condu...

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...

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...

To develop a cooperative distributor local agriculture, food, and related products in collaboration with Allen Neighborhood Center (ANC) and East Lansing Food Coop, inc.

Goals: The purpose of this project is to capture and record a series of traditional folktales as told in their original languages (Fongbe, Goun, and Maxi) and make them available in a variety of digital, written, and visual formats for a broader audi...

This activity was interrupted by the pandemic. The K12 Partnership group was comprised of clinical experience-focused faculty in the Teacher Preparation Program and district and school leaders from key K12 partners. The goals were to: - reduce finan...

I started the RSO STATCOM (=Statistics in the Community) at MSU. Student organizations like this exist at other universities and are recognized by the professional organizations American Statistical Associations. Students provide free statistical co...

FS2021 MC 498: 16 students taught in person. I have been teaching my course on Lansing since 2015, though I allow students to do projects on Flint and Detroit if students want to do a project based on these cities. The course focuses on theories and ...

This community-partnered study will scale a community, provider, and system-level implementation intervention to reduce African American maternal morbidity and mortality disparities in two Michigan counties (Genesee and Kent). We will test the interv...

The SPIRIT Trial is a randomized controlled trial evaluating the effectiveness, cost-effectiveness, and mechanisms of the Safety Plan intervention in reducing suicide events among 800 individuals in the year after jail release.

Working with ACCESS in Dearborn to understand the Arab ethnicity’s relationship to whiteness and advocate for its categorization as a racially separate minority group.

Digital archive of photographs from Mali. Managing website, social media posts, communications from broad community, overseeing three undergraduate researchers on the project.

The U.S. National Chemistry Olympiad is a multi-tiered chemistry competition. I assisted with organizing and administering this event.

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...

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...

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...

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...