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Published on 4 Comments on To Heal Achilles’ Heel

by Abdallah Omari, for the Fall 2020 Symposium on Community Engaged Scholarship.    

This presentation was selected as a Fall 2020 Nashman Center Exemplar.

My friends and I from Jordan decided to create a program in order to help educate and entertain the unprivileged children in 'Za'atari Refugee Camp' by creating our program called 'Youth Leadership Program (YLP). Symposium Theme: Resilience.

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This project was part of Abbie Weiner’s course, COMM 1041: Interpersonal Communication. Students in this course learn the theories and principles of interpersonal communication while engaging in service-learning with local after-school programs, job training programs, and other service organizations.

Please be sure to cast your vote for the Symposium for Community Engaged Scholarship Audience Choice Award.  You are welcome to post comments and questions below.  

by Briana Anderson and Chava Kornblatt for the Fall 2020 Symposium on Community Engaged Scholarship (HSSJ 1177)

This presentation was selected as a Fall 2020 Nashman Center Exemplar.

Pathways to Housing DC is a non-profit that works to alleviate homelessness by providing immediate housing and a support team to people experiencing homelessness. Our team conducted interviews with program participants (which Pathways calls client) and worked to tell their stories and messages in ways that would be accessible to the general public. Symposium Theme: Challenging assumptions and unconscious biases.

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This project was part of Dr. Gretchen Van der Veer’s HSSJ 1177: Organizing Social Justice and Human Services. Students in this course learn theories of  community organizing and social justice while engaging in service-learning with DC-based advocacy and action organizations.

Please be sure to cast your vote for the Symposium for Community Engaged Scholarship Audience Choice Award.  You are welcome to post comments and questions below.  

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Published on 2 Comments on Latino Student Fund: Building Authentic Relationships in this Unique Time

by Kyle Layman, for the Fall 2020 Symposium on Community Engaged Scholarship.    

This presentation was selected as a Fall 2020 Nashman Center Exemplar.

This presentation will provide insight into my service learning experience with the Latino Student Fund and show connections between my volunteer work and course topics. Symposium Theme: Building authentic relationships in this unique time.

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This project was part of Abbie Weiner’s course, COMM 1041: Interpersonal Communication. Students in this course learn the theories and principles of interpersonal communication while engaging in service-learning with local after-school programs, job training programs, and other service organizations.

Please be sure to cast your vote for the Symposium for Community Engaged Scholarship Audience Choice Award.  You are welcome to post comments and questions below.  

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Published on 3 Comments on The Latino Student Fund: Creating Bonds in a Virtual Setting

by Annika Stadler, for the Fall 2020 Symposium on Community Engaged Scholarship.    

This presentation was selected as a Fall 2020 Nashman Center Exemplar.   

In my presentation, I will be sharing my experience working with the Latino Student Fund. I was able to form a strong bond with a seventh-grade student over the course of the semester through weekly tutoring sessions. Symposium Theme: Building authentic relationships in this unique time.

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This project was part of Abbie Weiner’s course, COMM 1041: Interpersonal Communication. Students in this course learn the theories and principles of interpersonal communication while engaging in service-learning with local after-school programs, job training programs, and other service organizations. 

Please be sure to cast your vote for the Symposium for Community Engaged Scholarship Audience Choice Award.  You are welcome to post comments and questions below.  

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Published on 1 Comment on PUBH 6299: Transition to Adult Healthcare Among Non-Speaking Autistic Young Adults

By Sydney Bornstein, for the Fall 2020 Symposium on Community Engaged Scholarship.    

This presentation was selected as a Fall 2020 Nashman Center Exemplar.

My community partners and I looked into and thought about the transition from pediatric to adult healthcare among non-speaking autistic young adults. We came up with a healthcare transition guide for non-speaking autistic young adults and their families as a short-term solution to make the transition smoother.

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This project was part of Dr. Sean Cleary's course, PUBH 6299 The Autism Experience: A Public Health Perspective. In this unique course, designed in collaboration with local, autistic community members, GW students learn community participatory research methods while engaging with autistic young adults, their parents, researchers, clinicians and other service providers. The course covers the science, viewpoints, and experience of autism with a focus on young adults transitioning to adulthood. Working in partnership with community advocates, students explore research relevant to the autistic community.

Please be sure to cast your vote for the Symposium for Community Engaged Scholarship Audience Choice Award.  You are welcome to post comments and questions below.  

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Published on 2 Comments on Jews United for Justice

by Shoshana Bittker, Kristen Caldwell, Shira Strongin, and Molly Katz for the Fall 2020 Symposium on Community Engaged Scholarship (HSSJ 1177)

This presentation was selected as a Fall 2020 Nashman Center Exemplar.

Our project group for HSSJ 1177 fall 2020 worked with Jews United for Justice throughout the semester and this is our project portfolio presentation.

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This project was part of Dr. Gretchen Van der Veer’s HSSJ 1177: Organizing Social Justice and Human Services. Students in this course learn theories of  community organizing and social justice while engaging in service-learning with DC-based advocacy and action organizations.

Please be sure to cast your vote for the Symposium for Community Engaged Scholarship Audience Choice Award.  You are welcome to post comments and questions below.  

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Published on 2 Comments on Increasing Awareness of Equitable Housing and Development Programs in the District

by Noah Lindenberg, Lucy Hirsch, Willow Newcomb, Fiona Joseph, and Madeline Bailer, for the Fall 2020 Symposium on Community Engaged Scholarship (HSSJ 1177)

This presentation was selected as a Fall 2020 Nashman Center Exemplar.

As students at GW who hope to live in DC post-grad, we must be committed to addressing the inequality and gentrification we are contributing to. We were thankful for the opportunity to partner with CNHED to promote awareness about this issue.

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This project was part of Dr. Gretchen Van der Veer’s HSSJ 1177: Organizing Social Justice and Human Services. Students in this course learn theories of  community organizing and social justice while engaging in service-learning with DC-based advocacy and action organizations.

Please be sure to cast your vote for the Symposium for Community Engaged Scholarship Audience Choice Award.  You are welcome to post comments and questions below.  

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Published on 2 Comments on Culminating Experience SUST 3097

by Inaki De Larrauri, for the Fall 2020 Symposium on Community Engaged Scholarship.    

This presentation was selected as a Fall 2020 Nashman Center Exemplar.

This is my personal experience working as a volunteer at Lacorsalud in their new Covid - 19 initiative in Bogota, Colombia.

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This project was part of Dr. Naamal DeSilva’s course, SUST 3097-30: Community-Engaged Research to Promote Environmental Justice. Students in this course work to create a shared understanding of the intersections among environmental, technological, socioeconomic, and political problems and opportunities within communities. They study specific problems faced by DC residents (or local communities during COVID-time), and then engage community-based stakeholders in researching, understanding, and addressing these problems. 

Please be sure to cast your vote for the Symposium for Community Engaged Scholarship Audience Choice Award.  You are welcome to post comments and questions below.  

Published on Leave a comment on Diana Aguilera, a 2020 Knapp Fellow Winner, discusses her project, Latino Immigrants and Telemedicine Approaches, and her ongoing civic engagement

“While we’re living through pandemics, living in historic times, what matters next is how we will intervene.” 

Diana Aguilera, a graduate student studying Public Policy, is one of the two 2020 Knapp Fellow winners. In addition to being a Knapp Fellow, Diana is a recipient of the 2020 Clinton Global Initiative (CGI U) and an awardee of the Clinton Foundation’s COVID-19 Student Action Fund. By putting her Knapp Fellowship into a conversation with her other ongoing initiatives, Diana demonstrates her commitment to advance discussions that confront healthcare barriers before and during COVID-19. ...continue reading "Diana Aguilera, a 2020 Knapp Fellow Winner, discusses her project, Latino Immigrants and Telemedicine Approaches, and her ongoing civic engagement"

Published on Leave a comment on Student recipients of the Clinton Foundation’s COVID-19 Student Action Fund

"After receiving more than 1,400 applications for the COVID-19 Student Action Fund, CGI U is pleased to announce the 38 recipients of this award, representing 12 countries and 29 institutions of higher learning." ...continue reading "Student recipients of the Clinton Foundation’s COVID-19 Student Action Fund"

Published on Leave a comment on Community Engaged Faculty, Professor Howard Straker

Professor Howard Straker, Assistant Professor of Physician Assistant Studies, “teaches a course called Health, Justice and Society which includes a service-learning component where currently the PA students work with community PAs to produce patient education materials that are specific to their population and meet health literacy principles.” To learn more about Professor Straker's work and our Nashman Affiliate Faculty, please click here. Professor Straker is also the President of Physician Assistant Education Association (PAEA); to read his interview with PAEA, please click here.  ...continue reading "Community Engaged Faculty, Professor Howard Straker"

Published on Leave a comment on Community Engaged Faculty, Professor Nadia Volchansky

Nadia Volchansky, an Assistant Professor of Interior Architecture, Undergraduate Faculty Advisor, and a leader in the Interior Architecture Program, is a known published researcher, established designer, and strategic problem solver. While Professor Volchansky's most recent publication discusses, Sound, Time, and Cognitive Processing: Implications for Medical Contexts, poster presentation (2015), her current research focuses on how to sustain culture through community engagement and how failure can be used as a design tool.

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Elizabeth Fisher is a professor of classical and ancient near eastern studies and former chair of the department at the George Washington University. We are proud of her community engaged scholarship contributions. Read her bio and learn about her School Without Walls work.

Learn more about how Nashman supports community engaged faculty here.

Published on Leave a comment on Virtual Spring Symposium 2020 in Review

 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.

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Published on Leave a comment on Community Engaged Faculty, Amanda Northcross

Dr. Amanda Northcross, Assistant Professor in the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, uses her “background in environmental chemistry and engineering” to study and specialize in “the chemical constituents of airborne pollutants and monitory human exposures to air pollution.” Areas of Dr. Northcross’ expertise include but are not limited to Environmental and Occupational Health and Global Environmental Health.  ...continue reading "Community Engaged Faculty, Amanda Northcross"

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