Skip to content

Author: wagnerw

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.

 

Published on

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.

...continue reading "Aiswarya Bulusu: Nashman Prize for CBPR Second Place"

Viewing Message: 1 of 1.
 Notice

This site uses cookies to offer you a better browsing experience. Visit GW’s Website Privacy Notice to learn more about how GW uses cookies.