The Engaged Scholar Magazine

Children and Youth

The 2017 issue of the Engaged Scholar Magazine looks at children and youth. Topics range from preventing childhood obesity and helping teens manage diabetes, to a program for young children on the autism spectrum, and a curriculum for helping youth strengthen their cultural identity.

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Announcements

Engagement Scholarship Consortium 2018 Conference
Proposal deadline: March 16, 2018

Summer Intensive on Community-Engaged Scholarship
Application deadline: April 6, 2018

MSU Graduate Certification in Community Engagement
Program prepares graduate students for academic careers that integrate scholarship with community engagement. It offers students a transcript notation indicating that they have completed the program.

Community Engagement Toolkits
Designed by the Center for Service-Learning and Civic Engagement to guide and support MSU faculty, students, staff, and community partners.

Tools of Engagement Learning Modules
Online curriculum modules are available for use by MSU faculty to introduce undergraduate students to the concept of university-community engagement.

Transformations in Higher Education: The Scholarship of Engagement Series
Available from MSU Press

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Community Engagement Scholarship Award Honors University-Military Collaboration

The 2018 Community Engagement Scholarship Award recognizes Adrian Blow and his longstanding collaboration with the Michigan Army National Guard.

Since October 2006, Blow has worked with a range of community partners to address the challenges of reintegration faced by returning National Guard soldiers and their families.

Blow's partnerships were formed with the goals of: developing an effective reintegration system to serve returning soldiers and their families; reducing occurrences of depression, substance abuse, domestic abuse and suicide through longitudinal research; and developing reintegration activities and programs ... read more

Discovering the Growing Costs of a Growing Epidemic in the U.S. Dairy Industry

Dairy cow producers deal with the costly impacts of herd-health issues and cow well-being on a daily basis. While some health issues, such as mastitis and lameness, are well-known cost culprits, others have not been so obvious.

Bovine leukemia virus (BLV) has been a growing epidemic in U.S. dairy herds for decades, but because most BLV-positive cows are asymptomatic, it has received little attention from dairy producers. As a result, almost all American herds now have BLV-infected cows, a situation that may have far-reaching cost and animal welfare implications.

Bo Norby, building on the work of researchers from MSU's College of Veterinary Medicine, received a USDA grant last year to study the impact of BLV on the occurrence and severity of other diseases, such as mastitis, in dairy cows ... read more

Railway Center at MSU Aims a Wide Lens at a Complex Industry

Andreas Hoffrichter first became intrigued by trains at a young age. "There are pictures of me playing with trains when I was about two or three years old," Hoffrichter said. "So basically I made my passion into a profession."

That early fascination with trains is pretty common among those who study railway systems. Nicholas Little has been involved in the railway and management certification program since its inception.

"The first photograph of me connected with a train was taken when I was about three years old. I was standing on the foot plate of a steam engine. My dad was working in an army supply depot—this was a local train that took supplies to the main line—and I went into work with him most Saturdays," Little recalled ... read more

Community-Engaged Scholarship Write-Ins
East Lansing, Michigan
March 2, 2018
April 6, 2018
May 4, 2018

Digital Presence and Public Scholarship Intensive Workshop
East Lansing, Michigan
March 6-7, 2018

MSU Global Engagement Speaker Series – Nieves Tapia
East Lansing, Michigan
March 14, 2018

Informal Learning Network Brownbag: Wharton Center Participatory Lifelong Learning Programs
East Lansing, Michigan
March 20, 2018

Practical Approaches to Integrating Different Ways of Knowing in Community-University Partnerships
East Lansing, Michigan
March 23, 2018

Campus Compact National Conference
Indianapolis, Indiana
March 25-28, 2018

MSU Science Festival
East Lansing, Michigan
April 6-22, 2018

National Alliance for Broader Impacts Summit
Providence, Rhode Island
April 25-27, 2018

Michigan Science Olympiad State Tournament
East Lansing, Michigan
April 28, 2018

NSF Broader Impacts Two-Day Workshop
East Lansing, Michigan
May 9-10, 2018

Summer Intensive on Community-Engaged Scholarship
East Lansing, Michigan
June 4-8, 2018

International Association for Research on Service-learning and Community Engagement
New Orleans, Louisiana
July 18-20 2018

Engagement Scholarship Consortium Annual Conference
Minneapolis, Minnesota
September 30-October 3, 2018

Imagining America 2018 National Conference
Chicago, Illinois
October 19-21, 2018

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University-Community Partnerships

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