GWServes is our online platform for reporting campus-community partnerships and community engagement interests. It is proving to be a useful tool that fosters networking and collaboration among faculty, students, and community partners. These connections help us engage in mutually beneficial partnerships to influence more positive change in our city.
To encourage faculty to connect via this platform, we are providing an introductory, Faculty Guide to GWServes.
Share with community partners: Johns Hopkins University Press has announced it will provide free access to its journals and books via Project Muse during the COVIDE-19 crisis.
1,400 books and 97 journals will be accessible for free for the remainder of the spring semester, ensuring access for university students completing course work at home
In response to the unprecedented challenges created by the COVID-19 global public health crisis, Johns Hopkins University Press is providing free access to its collection of books and journals currently on Project MUSE, a massive online collection of humanities and social science research.
Join us for GW's Spring 2020 Virtual Symposium! 
The Symposium invites students to share their experiences with community engaged scholarship, disseminate findings, and learn about other campus/community initiatives.
The Virtual Community Engaged Scholarship Symposium will take place Tuesday, April 28th to Thursday, April 30th.
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Promising Futures engages D.C. middle and high school students as ambassadors and peer educators with a focus on everything from health to leadership skills.” To read the full article in GW Today, please click here.
...continue reading "GW Today highlights Dr. Maranda Ward’s civic engagement"
Dr. Uri Colón-Ramos, Associate Professor of Nutrition & Global Health Department of Global Health (primary) and Department of Exercise & Nutrition Sciences, recently won the Nashman Faculty Development Grant. From her background in public affairs, nutrition, and sociological perspectives, Dr. Ramos “employs mixed methods to identify and understand the dietary determinants of underserved, at-risk populations, and to better inform nutrition policies and programs.” ...continue reading "Community Engaged Faculty, Dr. Uri Colón-Ramos"
Dr. Sara Wilensky, Special Services Faculty member for Undergraduate Education and Assistant Dean of Undergraduate Education, “leads projects on safety net issues, focusing on the financing and access-to-care barriers faced by vulnerable and underserved populations.” Professor Wilensky has a PhD in Public Policy from GW, but also happens to have a JD from the University of Pennsylvania. From her Public Policy and Law background, Dr. Wilensky incites and advances deeper understandings about the complicated areas within Public Health. ...continue reading "Community Engaged Faculty, Dr. Sara Wilensky"
The Office of Research and Evaluation (ORE) at the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS) invites you to join our Research and Evidence webinar series. This webinar series is one of many ways ORE is sharing current research on civic engagement, volunteering, and national service.
This month’s topic is:
Participatory Health Research: Challenges and Approaches
Date and Time: Wednesday, Apr. 8, from 2-3:00 p.m. ET
Students and faculty members can search hundreds of opportunities to serve virtually and log their hours on GWServes.givepulse.com
Many students are asking "how can I help from where I am" and some student organizations and students in community engaged scholarship courses have direct service partnerships with organizations that are closed for the foreseeable future. The GWServes platform offers ways to still serve and meet needs virtually while tracking hours on their platform as you normally would.
Step 1. Log on to GWServes.givepulse.com and click "get involved"
Step 2. Set your search parameters so you see virtual opportunities nationwide by clicking on gwserves and then un-clicking the box and clicking apply so you can see all opportunities.
Step 3. Clear your location search parameters by clicking on your zip code, clear, then apply to get the maximum amount of results.
Step 4. Click the virtual/remote button so you only see virtual service opportunities. Click groups or events to virtually serve at an event or with a group
Step 5. Add your impact hours as you normally would to share with your Community Engaged Course, School or student organization.
Have a story about your virtual service? Share it with us!
Unfortunately, the GW Research Showcase event has been cancelled for this year. However, the Nashman Prize for Community-Based Participatory Research will still be awarded. Students who have already submitted abstracts for this prize will be notified by the end of this week if they have been selected for consideration. Students under consideration for the prize will be invited to present at the Virtual Symposium on Community Engaged Scholarship (see above) at the end of the semester. Judging for the prize will occur the week of April 27th. Please let me know if you are interested in serving as a judge.
The Perfect Opportunity for K-16 Educators and School Teams
2020 Summer EAST and Summer WEST Institutes
Dr. Jameta Nicole Barlow, Community Health Psychologist, Assistant Professor of Writing, and Affiliate Faculty Member of the Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program and of the Jacobs Institute of Women’s Health, integrates transdisciplinary collaboration with intersectional frameworks to address current social, cultural, and health injustices. Dr. Barlow’s “most recent work, the Saving Our Sisters Project, is focused on Black women's mental health and well-being, employing writing and the personal narrative” (Barlow). Click here to visit Dr. Barlow’s website. ...continue reading "Community Engaged Faculty, Dr. Jameta Nicole Barlow"
GW Research Showcase:
A University-wide Celebration of Research, Scholarship and Creativity
Tuesday, April 7, 2020
FINAL Call for Abstracts ...continue reading "GW Research Showcase, Final Call for Abstracts"
Dr. James Peterson, Assistant Research Professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, advances analysis that integrates public health research and local communities. Dr. Peterson previously served as the Community Research Coordinator for District of Columbia Center for AIDS Research (DC CFAR) and currently serves as the Community Activities Coordinator for the DC Cohort Project, a city-wide HIV clinical research effort among 15 HIV care sites in the District of Columbia. For more information about DC CFAR, please click here. For more information about the DC Cohort Project, please click here. ...continue reading "Community Engaged Faculty, Dr. James Peterson"
Dr. Greg Squires, a Professor of Sociology and of Public Policy and Public Administration, centers his current research on housing discrimination, the continuing consequences of the foreclosure crisis, applied and community-based research, and gentrification and uneven metropolitan development. To view Dr. Squires' work, please click here. ...continue reading "Community Engaged Faculty, Dr. Greg Squires"
Dr. Tara Scully, Director of the Sustainability Minor and Assistant Professor of Biology, continues to inspire non-science and science majors with her introductory biology and sustainability courses. ...continue reading "Community Engaged Faculty, Dr. Tara Scully"
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