Engaged Curriculum Grants
2017-18 Engaged Curriculum Grant Recipients
Engaged Curriculum Grants fund teams who are integrating community engagement into new and existing majors, minors and courses — putting community-engaged learning at the very heart of the university.
Planning Grants
- Bringing Specimens to Life
Teaching students to communicate scientific knowledge that promotes local diversity and inspires an interest in the natural world. - Engaged Performance
Creating opportunities for campus engagement, cultural outreach and community building through music. - Enhancing Community Media
Linking students with an emerging community news exchange to produce high-quality, comprehensive reporting on key issues throughout Tompkins County. - Environmental and Experiential Learning in Washington, D.C.
Developing collaborative research and internship opportunities in environmental sectors with community partners and environmental groups in Washington, D.C. - Shared Vision Planning for Lake Ontario
Using team-based consulting to addresses water resource challenges faced by communities on the shores of Lake Ontario. - Sustainable Engineering in Context
Bringing engineering students together so they can take a team approach to finding sustainable solutions to real-world problems.
Development Grants
- New grantees
- Climate-Adaptive Design in the Community
Closely engaging stakeholders with a cross-course collaboration that inspires awareness of climate adaptation and design innovation. - Field Geophysics
Bringing students out of the classroom and into the field, where they use geophysical methods to collect data about the natural history of the region. - Law and Policy of Food Systems
Enabling students to delve into the difficult technical and policy issues facing food systems today. - Materials Science and Engineering for High School Students
Educating high school students about materials science and engineering through a nationally distributed learning module and a community outreach course. - Minor in Health, Hospitality and Design
Creating a sustainable and healthy future through a minor that promotes design innovation, research and community engagement. - Theatre and Social Change
Bringing local stories to the stage to illustrate the cultural impact of climate change on Finger Lakes communities.
- Climate-Adaptive Design in the Community
- Renewed grantees
- Coding for All
Encouraging girls and underrepresented minority students in middle school and high school to pursue computational science. - Communicating Psychological and Brain Science to the Public
Finding fun and engaging ways to connect children and families with developments in psychological and brain science. - Cornell Legal Research Clinic
Addressing the pressing need for legal advocacy among community members. - Crime, Prisons, Education and Justice Minor
Exploring issues around the criminal justice system and incarceration policy through first-hand experiences with prison education. - Engaged Learning for International Migration
Conducting research projects in the field and developing strategies that will help improve conditions for immigrant farmworkers. - Environmental and Sustainability Communication
Using strategic communication to accelerate public understanding of sustainability and environmental issues. - Food Systems Approaches to Food Safety
Training students to detect, solve and ultimately prevent outbreaks of food-borne illness throughout the farm-to-table continuum. - Food Systems for Global Health
Exploring challenges and providing solutions to food and water safety issues that touch every part of the globe. - Gateways to International Learning
Creating curricula that serves as a gateway for international and engaged experiences that produce successful global partnerships. - Interdisciplinary Tax Services for Low-Income Immigrants
Training accounting and law students to assist low-income immigrant taxpayers in their taxation and legal needs. - 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. - Using the Tools of Finance to Meet Social Needs
Creating engagement opportunities for students to explore how sustainable finance and impact investing can support communities and the environment.
- Coding for All
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Engaged Curriculum Grants
Funding teams that are integrating community-engaged learning into new and existing curricula.