Public Engagement Seed Grant: 2005-2006 Awardees
Under the leadership of Associate Vice President Victor Bloomfield, the Office of Public Engagement works to enhance the University of Minnesota’s activities and stature as a publicly engaged research university. The Office provides University-wide leadership to catalyze, facilitate, advocate, coordinate, connect, communicate, and align engaged initiatives across units and with external constituencies.
Engagement is defined as the partnership of university knowledge and resources with those of the public and private sectors to enrich scholarship, research, and creative activity; enhance curriculum, teaching and learning; prepare educated, engaged citizens; strengthen democratic values and civic responsibility; address critical societal issues; and contribute to the public good.
| Principal Investigator | Department / College / Campus | Project |
| Ronald Aminzade | Dept. of Sociology |
Sociology Beyond the University: Proposal to Support the Development of a New Capstone Course with a focus on Public Sociology and Civic Engagement |
| Fantu Bachewe | Dept. of Applied Economics COAFES UMTC |
Informational website to be used by the Ethiopian community in Minnesota |
| Nancy Baker | Dept. of Family Medicine and Community Health School of Medicine UMTC |
Harvard Street Forum |
| Harry Boyte | Center for Democracy and Citizenship Humphrey Center UMTC |
Engaged Students: Creating Citizen Leaders |
| Linda Brady | Dept. of Food Science and Nutrition Continuing Education UMTC |
Community Assessment of Food Security in South Minneapolis |
| Karen Buhr | Graduate and Professional Student Assembly Graduate School UMTC |
Engaging Graduate Students: A Guide to Resources, Actions, and Structures that Support Community for Graduate and Professional Students |
| William Craig | Center for Urban and Regional Affairs Humphrey Center UMTC |
Crookston Natural Resource Research Center |
| Paul Deputy | Dept. of Social Work and Psychology College of Education and Human Service Professions UMD |
Engaging UMD: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Strengthening Public Engagement |
| Jean Forster | Division of Epidemiology and Community Health School of Public Health UMTC |
Engaging cultural communities in graduate education on community-based research methods |
| Tara Fortune | Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition Office of International Programs UMTC |
CARLA-MAIN Portal to Support Immersion Education in Minnesota |
| Simone French | Division of Epidemiology and Community Health School of Public Health UMTC |
Healthy Food Retail Access in Communities: Economic and Policy Strategies to Improve Healthy Food Retail Access in Low-Income and Minority Communities |
| Wendy Friedmeyer | Design Institute College of Architecture and Landscape Architecture UMTC |
Mapping Change: Community Guide to navigating the Decision Making Processes for Development along West Broadway |
| Patricia Hampl | Dept. of English College of Liberal Arts UMTC |
Scribes for Human Rights |
| Jo Ida C. Hansen | Dept. of Psychology College of Liberal Arts UMTC |
Providing Career Counseling Services to an Underserved Population: A Partnership between the University of Minnesota's Vocational Assessment Clinic (VAC) and the Neighborhood Involvement Program (NIP) |
| Lyndel King | Weisman Art Museum UMTC |
Public Engagement through the Arts: U Students As Public Teachers |
| Bernadette Longo | Dept. of Rhetoric COAFES UMTC |
Mapping Assets in North Minneapolis for Food Security |
| Jennifer McComas | Dept. of Educational Psychology College of Education and Human Development UMTC |
Sustaining Pathway to Academic and Social Success (S-PASS) |
| Scott McConnell | Educational Psychology and Child Development, and Center for Early Education and Development |
Planning for the Five Hundred Under Five:An Intensive Research and Intervention Project of Factors Affecting Young Children's Development for North Minneapolis |
| Kristine Miller | College of Architecture and Landscape Architecture UMTC |
A Servicer-Learning Network for the New Design College |
| Joe Nathan | Center for School Change Humphrey Center UMTC |
Building Community Awareness of Post-Secondary Enrollment Options at the University of Minnesota |
| Dawn Newman | Cloquet Regional Extension Center Extension UMTC |
American Indian Opportunity Analysis |
| Susan Noakes | Dept. of French and Italian College of Liberal Arts UMTC |
The Medieval Book in the K-12 Classroom |
| Corliss Outley | School of Kinesiology College of Education and Human Development UMTC |
Community Design Team Toolkit: Learning from, with and about the community |
| Gail Peterson | Dept. of Psychology College of Liberal Arts UMTC |
A Web-Based Public Education Resource for Families of Children with Autism |
| Mark Umbreit | Center for Restorative Justice and Peacemaking School of Social Work UMTC |
Muslim Restorative Justice Outreach |