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College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

Grant and fellowship funding awarded in FY19 by the Office of Engagement Initiatives in support of community-engaged learning

Engaged Curriculum Grants

Create, develop or improve curricula that connect community-engaged learning with disciplinary learning
  • Bringing Specimens to Life

    Teaching students to communicate scientific knowledge that promotes local diversity and inspires an interest in the natural world
  • Climate-Adaptive Design in the Community

    Closely engaging stakeholders with a cross-course collaboration that inspires awareness of climate adaptation and design innovation
  • Collective Leadership Course

    Introducing students to a leadership model centered on shared visions, aligned goals and coordinated actions
  • Engaged Learning Curriculum in Global Development

    Designing a community-engaged curriculum for Cornell’s new Department of Global Development
  • Engaged Research and Learning at the Nilgiris Field Learning Center

    Introducing an intergenerational mentoring program and expanding language learning at NFLC in southern India
  • Engineering Puerto Rico’s Infrastructure

    Using community-engaged engineering to design for resilience during Puerto Rico’s reconstruction
  • An Introduction to the Internet of Things

    Designing Cornell’s first introductory course on the Internet of Things (IoT): Technology and Engagement
  • Minor in Applied Science Communication and Public Engagement

    Preparing students to be socially engaged scientists and expanding the pool of experienced science communicators working with local organizations
  • A Model for Sustainable Resource Use

    Leveraging science and traditional ecological knowledge for environmental education
  • Peace Building in Conflict Regions

    Engaging with reconciliation and development efforts in Israel and the Palestinian Territories and Sub-Saharan Africa
  • The Professional Practice of Entrepreneurship

    Taking an interdisciplinary approach to social entrepreneurship by creating an aquaponics system for growing organic vegetables and fish in Chile
  • Taking America’s Pulse

    Teaching students advanced survey methods and analysis through a national opinion poll

Engaged Opportunity Grants

Bring a wide range of community-engaged learning initiatives to life
  • Building Engagement Skills Through Storytelling and Photography

    Staging workshops that explore the potential of photography and storytelling for community-engaged learning
  • The Cornell/WIPO Collaboration

    Creating — and getting students involved in — a global public sector IP-based innovation community
  • Cross-pollinating Outreach Programs to Support Organic Farmers

    Engaging students with organic farmers while strengthening research and educational programming
  • Engaged Scholarship in California’s San Joaquin Valley

    Developing, analyzing and publishing stories of engaged learning and research in the San Joaquin Valley
  • Food Waste 101

    Building a network of campus and community partners working toward reducing food waste on college campuses
  • A Garden-based Case Study

    Evaluating a long-term school garden program in Belize
  • Improving Cooperative Business Education

    Applying business class principles to address actual issues cooperative leaders are facing
  • Let’s Talk Science

    Science communication and civic engagement to promote mutually beneficial relationships between scientists and the public
  • New Horizons for Youth in Hamilton County

    A summer moviemaking program for middle school students in New York’s least densely populated county
  • Teaching with Community Partners

    A conference presentation on methods to improve teaching science communication in biology laboratory education
  • Tick-borne Disease Education in Summer Camps

    Promoting evidence-based disease prevention strategies at the Hidden Valley 4-H camp in Schuyler County
  • Traditional Ecological Knowledge as the Basis for Sustainability Studies

    Students gaining hands-on experience with Hawaiian cultural practices to contribute to the restoration and conservation of natural resources
  • Working Dogs Reseeding Deforested Areas

    Testing the possibility of using dogs to disperse seeds in ravines and gullies

Grants for Faculty Research on Engagement

  • Bolstering the New York Dairy Industry

    Strengthening the state’s dairy industry by implementing and assessing key community partnerships, workforce development and producer-through-consumer education
  • Cornell Raptor Program Assessment

    Using surveys to understand future opportunities for a program that promotes the conservation of birds of prey
  • Farmer-led Research in Malawi: Deepening Knowledge of Impact

    Using students’ reflective essays and evaluations to better understand the impact on student learning and development
  • The Impact of Equitable Community-Engaged Research

    Understanding and documenting what is needed to achieve more equitable collaborations between science institutions and underserved communities
  • Research Laboratories on the Move

    Do mobile research laboratories effectively engage underrepresented populations in social science research?
  • Transforming Upstate New York from Rust to Green

    Evaluating the impact of a university-community partnership to strengthen community resiliency and sustainability in New York state's Rust Belt

Engaged Undergraduate Research Grants

  • Digital Science Literacy about the Microbial World

    Training high school students to evaluate online science resources and improve related Wikipedia entries
  • Future Forests

    Collaborating on a citizen-science effort to examine the health of sugar maples in New Hampshire forests

Academic Venture Fund Supplemental Grants

Get more undergraduate students involved in sustainability research
  • Design Research for Carbon Removal

    Locating and designing “land labs” that demonstrate carbon removal practices to a range of audiences
  • Grazing Sheep on Solar Array Sites

    Discovering best practices to boost pollinator habitat and sequester soil carbon
  • Living with Leopards

    Exploring the effects of human-leopard interaction on food security and public health in Nepal
  • Seed Mixtures for Climate Resilience in Ethiopia

    Using seed mixtures to help farmers engage new market opportunities while enhancing their climate resilience
  • Spoiling Fish as Food

    Examining how harmful algal blooms are affecting fish nutritional quality and fish safety in Lake Victoria
  • Sustainable Pollination Resources for New York Apple Farmers

    Researching how farmers’ decisions about pollination resources affect yield, farm profitability and pollinator conservation
  • Turning Wastewater Treatment Facilities into Local Microgrid Hubs

    Re-envisioning wastewater treatment facilities as energy-generators that also recover nutrients and food wastes for reuse in local agriculture

Engaged Graduate Student Grants

  • Antibiotics in the Dairy Farm Environment

    Leveraging farmers’ knowledge for healthy farm management
  • Life in Forgotten Resettlement Sites

    Raising awareness about and enabling the political agency of evicted laborers in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India
  • Negotiated Agricultural Knowledge

    Engaging farmer researchers in Malawi to address biodiversity conservation, support ecosystem services and improve food security
  • Place, Identity and Environmental Stewardship

    Exploring how environmental stewardship practices can promote dialogue among diverse voices
  • Urban Deer Management

    Engaging citizen scientists to study the population of urban white-tailed deer at Fort Drum, New York

Engaged Faculty Fellowship Program

  • Toby Ault

  • Paul Curtis

  • Kathryn Gleason

  • Lori Leonard

  • J. Nathan Matias

  • Annalisa L. Raymer

  • Todd M. Schmit

  • Sonja Skelly

Engaged Ambassadors

  • Marquan Jones ’20

  • Maxwell Kelly ’20

  • Chenab Khakh ’20

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