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Academic Venture Fund Supplemental Grants

Opening the Door to Nature-Based Engagement

AVF project: Young people today show greater rates of stress and anxiety, a trend that coincides with a growing recognition of the threats to the natural environment. Employing a One Health approach, researchers will examine how curricular programming that provides students more time in nature can lead to healthier populations and environments. The project will specifically focus on elementary schools serving low-income communities in urban and rural areas, and will identify curricular best practices and generate data to inform programs and state policy for long-term social and environmental impact.

The grants supports undergraduate students as key members of the research team who will assist with everything from literature reviews and study protocol development, to relationship building with partner schools and planning meetings with teachers and students, to data collection, analysis and reporting.

Topics: Children, Youth, Seniors and Families; Health, Nutrition and Medicine

The Team

  • Gen Meredith, Cornell Master of Public Health Program

    College of Veterinary Medicine

  • Don Rakow, School of Integrative Plant Science - Horticulture Section

    College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

  • Nancy Wells, Department of Design and Environmental Analysis

    College of Human Ecology

  • Janis Whitlock, Bronfenbrenner Center for Translational Research

    College of Human Ecology

  • Monika Safford, Graduate School of Medical Sciences

    Weill Cornell Medicine

  • Amie Patchen, Cornell Master of Public Health Program

    College of Veterinary Medicine

  • Samantha Hillson, Health Promotion

    Tompkins County Health Department

  • Community partner:  Ithaca City School District
  • Community partner:  Tompkins County Health Department
  • Community partner:  New York City Department of Health and Hygiene
  • Community partner:  Cornell Cooperative Extension of New York City
  • Community partner:  Cornell Cooperative Extension of Tompkins County
  • Community partner:  National Park Service Parks Prescription Program
  • Community partner:  Planetary Health Alliance

Academic Venture Fund Supplemental Grants

Supporting undergraduate participation in cutting-edge, community-engaged projects funded by the Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability

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