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Einhorn Center for Community Engagement

Engaged faculty network grows with 28 new fellows

10/15/2024 Cornell Chronicle

Fellows will spend the year developing a community-engaged course, project or publication, while also joining a network of scholars committed to advancing the university’s public engagement mission.

People choosing food from tables; a shopping cart full of milk and vegetables — Architecture students volunteer at the Enfield Food Distribution Center. The visit served as participatory research for their speculative design projects.

Community engagement

Community-engaged research gets boost from new grants

4/11/2024 Cornell Chronicle

A multidisciplinary project to design a new facility and community garden for the Enfield Food Distribution Center – which has seen demand skyrocket since 2020 – is among eight teams of Cornell faculty, students and community partners to receive Engaged Research Grants from the Einhorn Center for Community Engagement.

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Einhorn Center

Einhorn Center announces new Engaged Faculty Fellows

11/8/2023 Cornell Chronicle

A&S faculty are among twenty-five faculty and academic staff from nine Cornell colleges and units are Engaged Faculty Fellows for the 2023-24 academic year.

Students standing around an open wastewater treatment facility, which looks like a big cement rectangle with green water and wooden separaters. — Provided. Environment and Sustainability students visit the Ithaca Area Wastewater Treatment Facility. IAWWTF is a key community partner in a project studying contaminants in Cayuga Lake.

Community Engagement

Engaged Opportunity Grants fund projects from Tompkins to Tanzania

8/2/2023 Cornell Chronicle

The funded community-engaged learning projects provide opportunities for students to excavate ancient Pompeii, establish a community garden in Moshi, Tanzania and more.

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Engaged Cornell

New faculty award celebrates community engagement across Cornell

4/13/2023 Cornell Chronicle

Two Arts and Sciences professors are among the 13 Cornell faculty members receiving Community-Engaged Practice and Innovation Awards from the David M. Einhorn Center for Community Engagement.

Public Engagement

Grants aim to unite networks to increase impact

4/1/2022 Cornell Chronicle

A team from Literatures in English and partner organizations is creating an inclusive, welcoming, anti-racist youth media network thanks to a grant from the David M. Einhorn Center for Community Engagement.

Public engagement

Faculty build network of community-engaged teachers, scholars

1/10/2022 Cornell Chronicle

From teaching food science at the Ithaca Farmers Market to researching how youth feel about their race and ethnicity, this year’s Engaged Faculty Fellows are demonstrating the range of work that’s possible through community-engaged learning and research. The 2021-22 cohorts include 15 faculty from eight Cornell schools and colleges.

Government

Margulies receives Levy faculty engagement award

6/9/2021 Cornell Chronicle

Joseph Margulies, professor of the practice of law and government, has been awarded the 2021 George D. Levy Faculty Award for his work to break down barriers for previously incarcerated people in Tompkins County.

Person standing next to an outdoor food cupboard — Provided Brianna Johnson ’21, a student researcher on a Cornell team working to increase food security for local residents.

Engaged Research

New research grants support Ithaca-area communities

2/10/2021 Cornell Chronicle

Cornell faculty and students are teaming up with community partners in Tompkins County to address opioid use, increase food security, build a greener construction industry and share stories of Ithaca’s Black history pioneers. The four teams received Engaged Research Grants, totaling more than $192,000, from the Office of Engagement Initiatives (OEI).

Engaged Cornell

Grants fund community-engaged learning curricula

10/14/2020 Cornell Chronicle

The Office of Engagement Initiatives (OEI) recently awarded Engaged Curriculum Grants to 19 teams of faculty and community partners that are developing community-engaged learning courses, majors and minors across the university.

Anthropology, Philosophy, Psychology, Romance Studies

Twenty new Engaged Faculty Fellows named

9/8/2020 Cornell Chronicle

A total of 20 faculty members from eight colleges have been named Engaged Faculty Fellows, committed to advancing community-engaged learning and scholarship at Cornell and within their academic disciplines. The program is offered through the Office of Engagement Initiatives (OEI). Nearly 100 faculty members have become fellows since the program launched in 2013.

Performing and Media Arts, Psychology

New Engaged Research Grants awarded to 14 partnerships

6/16/2020 Cornell Chronicle

Fourteen teams of faculty and community partners have received Engaged Research Grants from the Office of Engagement Initiatives to increase undergraduate involvement in research that strengthens the well-being of communities.

Engaged Cornell

Two dozen Engaged Faculty Fellows announced

10/2/2019 Cornell Chronicle

Twenty-four faculty members, representing six colleges and the Cornell University Library, have been named to the Engaged Faculty Fellowship Program.The 2019-20 cohort, the largest in the seven-year history of the program, joins more than 50 other faculty fellows dedicated to advancing community-engaged learning at Cornell and within their respective fields.

Community engagement

Grants create engagement opportunities for students

8/20/2019 Cornell Chronicle

The Office of Engagement Initiatives has awarded $1,307,580 in Engaged Curriculum Grants to 25 teams of faculty and community partners that are integrating community-engaged learning into majors and minors across the university.This year’s awards involve 99 Cornell faculty and staff from 46 departments. The 39 community partners are from 10 countries; 11 projects are based in New York state.

Psychology

Grants fund 15 community-engaged research projects

5/16/2019 Cornell Chronicle

Cornell student and faculty researchers and their community partners will use this year’s Engaged Cornell research grants to study Cornell’s socio-economic impact on Tompkins County, whether mobile research labs effectively engage underrepresented populations, and whether farmer-led research in Malawi influenced student learning and development.This year’s grants, 15 in all, were announced earlier this month by the Office of Engagement Initiatives.

Engaged Cornell

Grants create community-engaged opportunities for students

9/20/2018 Cornell Chronicle

Fourteen projects include partners from New York state communities – from Rochester to Ithaca to New York City – while seven projects include international partners.

Community engagement

Graduate student grants fund community-engaged projects

5/16/2018 Cornell Chronicle

Recently awarded Engaged Graduate Student Grants will support 21 Cornell doctoral students and their community partners researching a range of topics, including arts and agriculture, education and the environment, health and history.Grant recipients come from both the Ithaca and Cornell Tech campuses and represent 15 fields of study – the most since the program launched in 2016, with a particular increase in projects from the social sciences.

Psychology & Sociology & English

Engaged Cornell grants fund undergrad and faculty research

4/26/2018 Cornell Chronicle

Students, faculty and community partners will study education, inequality and equity, and community health and sustainability.

Student Life

Students tackle global challenges at Clinton conference

4/15/2016 Cornell Chronicle

It takes more than just hard work to turn an idea for advancing social justice into a successful reality. It also takes inspiration, a strong network and a lot of support, encouragement and advice.