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...

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...

The Institute for the Study of Youth Sport (ISYS) at Michigan State to offer a Youth Physical Activity and Well-being (YPAW) program in an underserved community with the goal to demonstrate that if youth (ages 8-14 years) are exposed to a physical ac...

This was a public event held online in cooperation with the Capital Area District Library, a panel discussion on John Lewis' graphic memoir March. Panelists included academics, activists, artists and teachers: Julian Chambliss, MSU Professor of Engli...

This was an online presentation of Special Collections materials related to Jewish culture, presented to Congregation Shaarey Zedek (local synagogue). Tad Boehmer, MSU Libraries rare books curator, and I presented.

Audience: Class of 2026 for both Lansing School District & Waverly Community Schools Purpose: SEL (Social Emotional Learning) via identification and exploration of one's own learning style, success habits, and self-awareness is one of the pillars of...

With a team of 7 NGOs serving beginning farmers, 6 extension educators and 5 members from Center for Regional Food Systems and myself we are developing curriculum that engages beginning farmer by providing technical information on production and mark...

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. By having previous participants share their own career ...

Audience: Class of 2026 for both Lansing School District & Waverly Community Schools Purpose: Summer Programming (to help prevent "summer learning loss") is one of the pillars of the federal GEAR UP grant, and the work plan we follow. Goals: To dev...

Audience: Class of 2026 for both Lansing School District & Waverly Community Schools Purpose: Increasing Literacy (in all formats) is one of the pillars of the federal GEAR UP Grant, and the work plan we follow. Goals: GEARUP did three bookmobiles ...

In February of 2020, the Writing Center in collaboration with the East Lansing Public Library founded a Community Writing Center. The project was spearheaded by Co-Directors Angelo Moreno and Dr. Grace Pregent. The goal was to expand access to MSU's ...

The primary goal of the project is to recover the people of the historical slave trade and make the information available to general public, researchers, and students. We also conducted workshops and presentations. The underlying technology is also k...

Collect and disseminate the work of Quilting around the world.

This project provides brief, 3-session teleconsultation for parents/caregivers of children with social, emotional, and/or behavioral concerns as they navigate implementing structure, routines, and home learning during the COVID-19 pandemic. This proj...

Giving voice masterclass for minority students.

tarted in 2011 to introduce students at Detroit’s Benjamin Carson High School to careers in medicine, the Future DOcs program has grown to include the Macomb and Lansing regions. Future DOcs exposes high school students interested in pursuing a care...

I initiated a national Get Out the Vote poster campaign, in partnership with AIGA (the professional association for design), and the League of Women Voters. I and my project partner worked on this for 2 years, with 2020 being the most dense part of t...

Work with community identified and driven projects aimed at enhancing assets within the Flint community through an immersive 10-week internship in Summer 2021. This involved various types of community engaged research as well as work with partner org...

Why: The Michigan Good Food Charter is an action and advocacy framework that promotes collaboration to advance a “good food system” in Michigan, that is a thriving food economy distinguished by equity, health, and sustainability. The Charter was in...

Data Nuggets are free classroom activities, co-designed by scientists and teachers, designed to bring contemporary research and authentic data into the classroom. Data Nuggets include a connection to the scientist behind the data and the true story o...

Data Nuggets are free classroom activities, co-designed by scientists and teachers. When using Data Nuggets students are provided with the details of authentic science research projects, and then get to work through an activity that gives them practi...

Over the past two years, Michigan has worked to develop its farm to early care and education (ECE) infrastructure through a cross-sector statewide network focused on equity, the development of procurement pilots in priority communities, and technical...

This project now FUNDED by the City of Lansing and community-based organizations draws upon formative, qualitative approaches to understand the barriers and root causes of structural inequalities, especially in education and work for adult parents of...