Featured MSU Engaged Scholars
- Helen Veit, Ph.D.
- Associate Professor, Department of History
- College of Social Science
- Peter I. Berg, Ph.D.
- Librarian and Head of Special Collections
- Associate Director, Special Collections and Preservation
- MSU Libraries
- Dean Rehberger, Ph.D.
- Associate Professor, Department of History
- Interim Chair, Department of Sociology
- Director, MATRIX Center for Digital Humanities
- College of Social Science
What America Ate Archive Invites Public Engagement around Eating Habits During the Great Depression
Providing opportunities for the public to engage intellectually, both receiving from and contributing to a collective community of knowledge, is an important part of MSU's outreach focus. Helen Veit, associate professor in the Department of History, Peter Berg, head of the MSU Libraries Special Collections, and Dean Rehberger, director of MATRIX, are working on a project that offers this kind of opportunity.
The project, called What America Ate, is a digital archive of thousands of culinary sources from the 1930s about eating habits during the Depression. Created to be a warm, user-friendly website, What America Ate invites the public to take part in the archival process while learning about an important time in America's history ...
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- Kathy Dontje, Ph.D., R.N., FNP-BC, FAANP
- Associate Professor, Health Programs
- Director, Doctor of Nursing Practice Program
- College of Nursing
Teamwork: Educating Future Health Care Professionals in Collaborative Care
As health care awareness grows, and patients address increasingly more complex navigation channels necessary for treating chronic illness and long-term health conditions, Kathy Dontje is working to deliver the highest quality care at the most efficient and effective levels for both patients and healthcare professionals.
Dr. Dontje described the situation: Patients with both mental health and chronic health conditions are likely to receive better care from a team of health care professionals than from a physician or nurse practitioner that works alone. The number of these patients is on the rise—the U.S. population is aging, and there are higher rates of obesity and related disease, to cite two reasons for the increase—and schools need an established curriculum to prepare students to work within a model of interprofessional collaborative care. Dontje was awarded more than $700,000 for a three-year grant from the federal Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) to develop an effective curriculum that provides students with that education and experience ...
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MSU Priorities
Community and Economic Development in the 21st Century
- Nicholas A. Hays, Ph.D.
- Assistant Professor, Department of Management
- Eli Broad College of Business
Business, Management, and Community Engagement Blend for a Rewarding Experience
When Nick Hays began an assistant professorship in the Broad College of Business during Fall 2014, he brought not only academic qualifications, but years of private sector job know-how.
From Hays' perspective, community-engaged learning is a vital component of the student experience. The year following his arrival at MSU, he incorporated a community engagement project into a capstone course for seniors majoring in management. His intent was to include hands-on involvement for his students that illustrated the sometimes stark differences between "knowing that" and "knowing how" ...
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