In This Issue
[December 2010]
Featured MSU Engaged Scholars
MSU Priorities
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Featured MSU Engaged Scholars
- Laura Apol, Ph.D.
- Associate Professor
- Department of Teacher Education
- College of Education
Writing for Healing: In Rwanda and Beyond
Laura Apol is a poet, writer, and associate professor in MSU's Department of Teacher Education. When the world presents a picture that is difficult or painful to look at, she believes that words and phrases can provide a way to understand and begin healing. This is the goal of her ongoing project, "Using Narrative Writing to Facilitate the Healing Process Among Survivors of the Genocide of Tutsi in Rwanda." ...
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- Ted Loudon, Ph.D., P.E.
- Professor Emeritus
- Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering
- College of Agriculture and Natural Resources
- College of Engineering
Research and Collaboration Combine to Provide Clean, Affordable Water
Ted Loudon is an irrigation engineer by training. Much of his career focused on water quality impacts from livestock operations, including technologies for improving the quality of water before it is discharged back to the soil or water environment. As a research-active professor emeritus, Dr. Loudon now applies his expertise toward water purification research and training people across the world who do not have access to clean, affordable water ...
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MSU Priorities
Community and Economic Development in the 21st Century
Competing Effectively in the Global Knowledge Economy
MSU Center for Community and Economic Development Partners with Regional Planners in Northern Michigan and Eastern Upper Peninsula to Identify Strategic Actions
With the shift from a manufacturing economy to a knowledge economy, individuals, organizations, and communities find themselves struggling to envision new livelihoods in an increasingly competitive global economy, and improve the quality of community life in an atmosphere of diminishing public resources. Continued high rates of unemployment, downsizing of automobile manufacturing plants, decreases in levels of home ownership ...
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Upcoming Events
- The Evaluation Circle Workshops, 2010-2011
- A series of workshops on evaluation theory and practice
- East Lansing, Michigan
- January 21, 2011; March 18, 2011
- MSU Awards Convocation
- Pasant Theatre, Wharton Center
- East Lansing, Michigan
- February 8, 2011
- Summit on Transforming Transportation: Economies & Communities
- Detroit, Michigan
- April 7-9, 2011
- CU Expo 2011
- Community-University Partnerships: Bringing Global Perspectives to Local Action
- Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
- May 10-14, 2011
- Fundraising for Engagement: Leveraging Internal and External Resources for Institutional Engagement
- Roanoke, Virginia
- June 10-12, 2011
- National Outreach Scholarship Conference
- Hosted by Michigan State University
- East Lansing, Michigan
- October 2-4, 2011
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 partnership with community partners to work on a specific research issue, University Outreach and Engagement can help you. Our University-Community Partnerships (UCP) 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 Bob Brown at (517) 432-1450 or brownr23@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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