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Published on Leave a comment on GW CBPR Research Featured in ArtReach GW Community Gallery

Voice of The Residents: Understanding Physical Activity in DC Ward 8

For the month of October, images from a photovoice research study by recent Milken graduate, Roger Isom, Jr., MPH, will be on display at the ArtReach GW Community Gallery, Town Hall Education Arts Recreation Campus (THEARC).

This community driven research work, Voice of The Residents: Understanding Physical Activity in DC Ward 8, will be shared through a photo exhibition, which visually narrates the lived experiences of eight Black male adult residents living in DC Ward 8.

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Published on Leave a comment on Reflection Essay Contest for Students in Global Health
Please invite faculty colleagues and students (undergraduate or graduate) to submit a reflection essay. Winners receive $500 and free registration to the Consortium of Universities for Global Health (CUGH) 2020 Annual conference, April 18-20, 2020. 
Submissions are due September 30, 2019. Additional information is available here.
Reflection essays should be under 1,000 words and address the meaning and lessons learned from global health experiences. They may be in a research, educational, clinical, or service capacity. Writing prompts and previously selected essays are provided.

Published on Leave a comment on GW’s Fifth Annual Diversity Summit: Nov 7-8, 2019

GW's Fifth Annual Diversity Summit
Be Bold: Learning. Unlearning. Relearning.
November 7th-8th

The Annual Diversity Summit, presented by the Office for Diversity, Equity and Community Engagement, aims to create a space for attendees to engage in critical, thoughtful, and challenging dialogue to inform how we understand ourselves, the larger landscape of higher education, and ways to continue building the most inclusive campus climates on individual and communal levels.

The annual summit features workshops, lectures, panels, and poster presentations on a variety of diversity-related topics, including race and racism, bias, sexuality and gender, and religion, faith, spirituality, and beliefs, and more.

If you are interested in submitting a proposal you can do so here. Proposals are due October 9th, 2019.

If you would like to sign up to volunteer and spread the word, sign up here.

Published on Leave a comment on Alternative Breaks Program Seeking a Faculty Learning Partner
Alternative Breaks has opened the Learning Partner application for their Fall Break DC trip. This position is open to ALL staff and faculty, as well as graduate student staff.
The Fall trip focuses on Hunger and Homelessness and will last from October 19th to October 22nd. The trip is slated to have 10 participants, 2 leaders, and one learning partner.
The role of the Learning Partner is as a participant on the trip who supports the two student leaders. Preference is given to to learning partners with experience in the issue area (in this case, hunger and homelessness) to add context and assist in participants' learning. Additionally the Learning partner will:
  •  Liaise for the University. Should something happen on the trip, LP's are tasked with keeping the entire group’s safety in mind and acting in the best interest of the university.
  • Serve as a helping hand to the leaders as needed when it comes to logistics, pre-trip education, fundraising, volunteer management, reflection, etc.
  • Contribute to the learning, leadership, and service development of both leaders and participants on an Alternative Break trip.
The deadline is September 13th at 5:00pm. The following week, trip leaders will conduct interviews with applicants before selecting a Learning Partner. All costs associated with participating as a Learning Partner are funded by the trip budget.
If you have any questions, please email: altbreaks@gwu.edu. To apply, use the link above.

Published on Leave a comment on GW’s Community Service & Engagement Fair: Friday, Sept 13th

GW's annual Community Service and Engagement Fair will be Friday, September 13th from 1-5pm in the Marvin Center's Continental Ballroom.

Students and faculty are encouraged to take this opportunity to meet the staff of many local nonprofit and human services organizations to talk about opportunities to partner and create new initiatives.

Organizations registered for the event include:

  • 826DC
  • YWCA National Capital Area
  • Jumpstart
  • Life Pieces To Masterpieces, Inc.
  • The AnBryce Foundation
  • Little Friends For Peace
  • Cystic Fibrosis Foundation
  • Reading Partners
  • Rock Creek Conservancy
  • African American Civil War Museum
  • CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocates) for Children of DC
  • Ward 8 Woods
  • Asylum Seeker Assistance Project
  • Rock Creek Conservancy
  • US Dream Academy
  • Capital Area Food Bank
  • ArtReach GW
  • National Center for Missing and Exploited Children
  • Latin American Youth Center
  • FoodPrints
  • International Spy Museum
  • Raising a Village Foundation
  • DC Prevention Center Wards 1 & 2
  • SOME, So Others Might Eat
  • Mosaic Theater Company of DC
  • Community of Hope
  • Christ House
  • Higher Achievement
  • For Love of Children
  • Atlas Performing Arts Center
  • City Gate
  • US Dream Academy
  • The Petey Greene Program at George Washington University
  • Homeless Children's Playtime Project
  • JxJ
  • GWSeves

Published on Leave a comment on GW’s CIPP Creates “Guide to Indigenous DC”
Kudos to Dr. Elizabeth Rule and colleagues at the AT&T Center for Indigenous Politics and Policy on the quality of their new app, a guide to local sites of importance to Native Americans. This is a great example of scholarship for the public good. Link to: Guide to Indigenous DC

Published on Leave a comment on GW’s ArtReach Gallery Exhibit Featured in WAMU Story

This month, an exhibit by GW's ArtReach Gallery, located in THEARC in DC's Ward 8, featured artwork created by local high school students based on their interview with a Holocaust survivor. Linked here is a thought-provoking piece on the exhibit, by WAMU.

‘They Ask Me, What Is The Holocaust?’ Teens Connect With Holocaust Survivors Through Art

 

Published on Leave a comment on New Professional Development Series on Health Equity

Nashman Faculty Affiliate, Dr. Maranda Ward shared this great new opportunity with us:

GW Health Sciences is pleased to announce a professional development series on health equity. The Department of Clinical Research and Leadership (CRL) is sponsoring the series to facilitate a shared understanding of health equity and its use as a lens for teaching, practicing, and service.

The series runs from September to January, 2020 and is open to the GW community and the public. CMEs are available. The five-month-long series will take place on the second Thursday of each month on the Foggy Bottom campus.

To register for the first event on September 12 or to learn more about the series, please visit: https://go.gwu.edu/healthequity

The first event on Sept. 12 from 10 to 11 am features Maranda Ward, EdD, MPH, discussing "Framing Health Equity." Ward, assistant professor in CRL, developed the series. "This health equity learning series will better equip us to fulfill our social mission in teaching, research, and service," Ward said. "It is chocked full of local experts and national leaders who rely on evidence and innovation to put the justice back in health."

Among the topics covered in the series are:

  • Social determinants of health
  • Recognizing vulnerable and socially disadvantaged U.S. populations
  • Workforce equity
  • Contemporary challenges to health equity
  • Cultural humility
  • Root causes of health disparities

Published on Leave a comment on GW Named on Washington Monthly List of America’s Best Colleges for Student Voting

George Washington University appeared on the Washington Monthly's List of America's Best Colleges for Student Voting. The list includes 80 institutions. Notably, none of GW's market basket schools appear on this list.

Congrats to GW and particularly to the GW Votes program for this success.

Please do forward your students to TurboVote, an online platform available to the GW community which provides timely notifications on upcoming elections wherever users are registered to vote, as well as non-partisan information about local, state, and federal candidates.

Published on Leave a comment on Peter Levine Asks, “Where are the Conservative Engaged Scholars?”

Peter Levine is among the Nashman Center's favorite thought-leaders. His most recent blog post questions why engaged scholarship seems to be the purview of left-of-center scholars when many of the tenants of this work align with conservative ideology. He poses a handful of potential answers to this question. We agree with his conclusion, "it would be good for the gatherings and networks of engaged scholars if they included more conservative concerns, populations, and thinkers."

Published on Leave a comment on Online Exhibit Explores 50 Years of Service-Learning in Higher Ed

The Stanford University Libraries, in partnership with Campus Compact and other supporters has curated an online Service-Learning History Project archive, curated by Tim Stanton, Seth Pollack and Josh Schneider. The archives contains downloadable interviews, films, and documents, telling the story of the emergence and institutionalization of service-learning from over the last fifty years.

 

Published on Leave a comment on Imagining America Receives $500K Grant to Promote Public Scholarship

Imagining America recently received a $500,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for their Leading and Learning Initiative. The goal of the project is to shift institutional culture in higher education toward greater support of public scholarship in the humanities, the arts, and design.

This three-year initiative will have two primary outcomes:

  • it will increase awareness of the value of research and creative practice that engage diverse communities in addressing pressing public issues;
  • it will build the institutional capacity needed to support and enable such work.
“At a time when society is deeply divided and when many people are fearful, discouraged, and struggling —through enduring inequalities across social, economic, racial, and gendered lines —there is a clear need for collaborative and community-based knowledge-making. Public scholarship—including both research and creative work such as public histories, community art-making, and poetry—have a unique power to bring people together to study and reflect on the world as it is and to imagine what it might be. Strong voices speaking out on urgent social and environmental issues are necessary if we are to create the just and healthy world that we want. IA believes that institutions of higher education have an important role to play in lifting scholarship that inspires public ideas, creativity, and critical hope, all desperately needed today."   - Erica Kohl-Arenas, Associate Professor of American Studies at UC Davis, Imagining America’s Faculty Director, and the lead researcher on the new initiative.

 

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The 2019 Nashman Prize for Community Based Participatory Research, second place:  Aiswarya Bulusu

Study: Dental health assessment in autistic youth: Results from a national study of children’s health.

Partner: Local Young Adults with Autism

Aiswarya Bulusu is a Masters student in Epidemiology in the Milken Institute School of Public Health.

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