The Nashman Center Spring 2020 Symposium was a success! The first ever "virtual" Symposium featured 26 presentations. Thank you to the 59 students who prepared video presentations about their community engaged scholarship projects this semester. Work from across the institution was represented, including the Biology, Geography and Sociology Departments, as well as the School of Medicine and Health Sciences, The School of Nursing, the School of Public Health.
Congratulations to the award winners, announced below.
Click here to view all submitted presentations. If you are seeking a particular presentation or course, note the search box on the right side of the screen.
We also want to thank the 307 students, faculty, and community members who visited the virtual Symposium this semester, offering comments on presentations and voting for our Audience Choice Award. A special thanks also to the Nashman Affiliate Faculty who served as judges for the Community Engaged Scholarship Exemplars and for the Nashman Prize
Community Engaged Scholarship Exemplars
Student presentations that best represented the values of Community Engaged Scholarship were selected as Exemplars. Congratulations to these students and to their faculty on their work this semester. We encourage you to view their presentations for yourself.
Click to listen and view: Typical Problems Among Autistic Prisoners, Aman Kapadia
This presentation is exemplary of the value for connecting community engagement to academic learning goals, and for reflection on civic engagement. The project was completed as part of Dr. Sean Cleary's course, PUBH 6299 The Autism Experience: A Public Health Perspective.
Click to listen and view: A Guide for Communication Between Healthcare Providers and Non-Speaking Autistic Adults, Nita Baliga and Abraham Kwan.
This presentation is exemplary of the value for working in partnership with the community to address a real, community-identified need, as well as the value for reflection about civic engagement. The project was completed as part of Dr. Sean Cleary's course, PUBH 6299 The Autism Experience: A Public Health Perspective.
Click to listen and view: Healthy Teen Scholars, Addie Abdel Jawad, Safeena Ahmed, Naa Allotey, Ciara Brown, Anne Collins, Gwladys Fotsa Chekam, Azar Gaminian, Sonali Shukla, and Jake Wittbrodt
This presentation is exemplary of the values for reciprocal campus-community partnerships and working in partnership with the community to address a real, community-identified need. This project is a part of the ISCOPES program. (Link http://www.iscopesgw.org)
Click to listen and view: Need Someone to Talk To?, Allen Wang
This presentation is exemplary of the value for working in partnership with the community to address a real, community-identified need. Allen Wang partnered with 7 Cups through Dr. Tara Scully's course, BISC 1008 Understanding Organisms.
Click to listen and view: Seniors in Ward 8, Sophie Clemens, Alexia Veiga, Shayna Druckman, and Grayson Hussong
This presentation is exemplary of the value of reciprocal campus-community partnerships. The team educated their classmates about the experience of senior citizens in DC’s Ward 8 for Dr. Emily Morrison's Introduction to Human Service and Social Justice course, HSSJ 1100.
The Symposium Audience Choice Award
In addition to the formal judging by Nashman Center Faculty Affiliates, the Symposium audience voted for their favorite presentation as well.
Yesenia Grajeda Yepez, Familia United
Yesenia Grajeda Yepez presented her Knapp Fellow Project: Familia United. Yesenia’s project focused on developing and implementing an app, Familia United, which assists Central American immigrant families in Yuma County, Arizona with reunification. View Yesenia's presentation here.
The Nashman Prize for Community Based Participatory Research (CBPR)
CBPR is inquiry aimed at informing solutions to benefit the community, conducted through collaboration and partnership with community members in all stages of the process: determining the research question and inquiry method(s), data collection, and dissemination of findings.
The First Place Nashman Prize Winners:
- Jacob Tafrate and Elizabeth Szafranski from the Geography Department at Columbian College of Arts and Sciences. View their presentation here: The Road Not Taken Geographical Analysis of Informal Road Networks in Siberia.
The Second Place Nashman Prize Winners (a tie):
- Benjamin Turley, Samuel Gritz, Efim Oykhman, and Daniel Newman from the School of Medicine and Health Sciences. View their presentation here: Investigating DC Opioid Use.
- Jillian Morgan, Nikita Vivek, and Dr. Karina Lora from the Milliken School of Public Health. View their presentation here: Nutrition to Go!
One last big thank you to everyone who participated in the Spring Symposium 2020, and congratulations to the winners!
