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[February 2010]
Featured MSU Engaged Scholars
MSU Priorities
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Featured MSU Engaged Scholars
- Mark Sullivan, D.M.A.
- Associate Professor
- College of Music
- Residential College in the Arts and Humanities
Building a Repertoire of Job Skills for Inner City Kids
Digital Technology Lets Youth Quickly See and Hear the Results of their Efforts
Mark Sullivan is on a mission to help inner city kids begin to build a repertoire of marketable skills, using something they already know and love — music. Although inspiring these kids to learn isn't always an easy endeavor, he sees incredible potential in using creative technologies to tap into their natural interests and abilities. Combine hip-hop and beat-making with the possibility of gaining ...
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- Joan Rose, Ph.D.
- Professor
- Department of Fisheries and Wildlife
- Homer Nowlin Chair in Water Research
- College of Agriculture and Natural Resources
Microbial Risk Assessment, Education, and Knowledge Management
What is the risk of disease spreading in our communities, in our schools, to our children? What biological agents represent the greatest risk associated with contaminated indoor environments, our water or our food? How clean is safe? These are some of the questions that the Center for Advancing Microbial Risk Assessment (CAMRA), housed at Michigan State University, addresses as it creates ...
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MSU Priorities
Community and Economic Development in the 21st Century
MSU Business-CONNECT has the "University Door Open" for Entrepreneurs, Research Partnerships, and Economic Development
A new resource at Michigan State University is designed to "open the door" for entrepreneurs and members of the business community looking to partner with faculty researchers. MSU Business-CONNECT facilitates the connections between those seeking to leverage MSU's vast wealth of resources by serving as a visible, knowledgeable, accessible, and responsive contact for critical information ...
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Upcoming Events
The Engaged Scholar Speaker Series
Alan Leshner, Ph.D.
MSU Kellogg Hotel and Conference Center
March 22, 2010
New Economy 2.0 Series for Legislators
"The Policies for Placemaking (Stimulus II)"
Anderson House Office Building
March 23, 2010
The Engaged Scholar Speaker Series
Bill Ivey
MSU Kellogg Hotel and Conference Center
April 7, 2010
Design Day
MSU College of Engineering
April 30, 2010
Looking for Project Partners?
Collaboration and partnership with communities are at the core of engaged scholarship. In all of its work, University Outreach and Engagement emphasizes university-community partnerships that are collaborative, participatory, empowering, systemic, transformative, and anchored in scholarship. If you are a faculty or academic staff member wanting to establish a community partnership to work on a specific research issue, University Outreach and Engagement can help you. Our staff, specialists, and researchers have established connections across the state in a number of areas such as education, mental health, human services, business, and government. For more information, contact Patricia Farrell at (517) 353-8977, or farrellp@msu.edu.
Focus: HOPE, Detroit, MI
Opportunities for partnership exist around the following areas: service-learning, student internships and placements, faculty research partnerships, and development of innovative solutions to pressing social problems. For more information, contact Deborah E. Fisher at (313) 494-4306 or fisherd@focushope.edu, or visit http://ucp.msu.edu/partnerships/.
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