Elizabeth Bachman
Mary Gallagher
Jennifer McCafferty
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Undergraduate Community Research Fellows Announced
Writing Program/PARC Jointly Announce Competition Winners
Every day, grassroots community-based groups work to improve the lives of people in their neighborhoods, and every day the leaders of these groups need good, detailed research that helps them understand the everyday needs of those people and strategies for meeting them. Organizations advocating for people with disabilities, for better housing, better childcare, or cleaner water are all in need of thoughtful, careful research that puts a human face on these problems, and that detects patterns in how they are perceived and coped with. College students are a rich untapped resource to conduct such research. Funded by the Association of American Colleges and Universities, the Undergraduate Community Research Fellows program will match community needs with undergraduate projects, to create exciting opportunities for undergraduates to engage directly with the off-campus community, to make a real-life contribution to the betterment of the city in which they live, and to see the value of their education at work through the application of research skills.
Recently, Steve Parks (Writing Program) and John Burdick (Anthropology and the Program on the Analysis and Resolution of Conflict) awarded six (6) Community Research Fellowships for spring semester 2008. Each Fellow will receive a $400 stipend and a $400 research budget to work on a team project that has been developed collaboratively with community leaders. The Fellows will work in three teams:
Team 1: Margaret McWeeney (senior, Political Science and International Relations), and Jennifer McCafferty (senior, International Relations and Anthropology), will conduct research with the Neighbors of the Onondaga Nation (NOON) to improve advocacy around the current land right case of the Onondaga.
Team 2: Diego Medrano (senior, Political Science and International Relations) and Elizabeth Bachman (junior, Policy Studies and Economics) will conduct a project with the Center for New Americans (CNA) on the mental health care needs of refugee populations.
Team 3: Lucille Murphy (junior, Professional Studies in Organizational Leadership) and Mary Gallagher (senior, English and Textual Studies) will conduct a project on workers' lives with the Workforce Development Council of UNITE-HERE.
The results of this research will be made available to the general Syracuse University community.
Congratulations to all recipients.
Margaret McWeeney |
Diego Medrano |
Lucille Murphy
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