Final posting for the summer

Everyone,

I've just finished reading and responding to all of your July postings. They were all very informative and inspiring - thank you. Please take a moment to read my comments and email me with any questions or comments on your end (huq@email.unc.edu).

Here's what we'd like you to think about and respond to for your final blog.
Deadline: August 21

Questions to consider:
- Has your involvementin community-based research impacted your motivation to engage in community issues, research or service?
- What assistance will be most helpful to you in the fall semester in wrapping up your CBR project?
- Write a brief letter of advice to a 2010 CBR-SURF.

Look forward to seeing you all back on campus. I'll be in touch with details abaout getting us all together in mid-September to share experiences/photos/plans for the fall.

Thanks everyone for all of your hard work this summer.
Jenny

July prompt

CBR-SURF Fellows,

I hope this finds you all well and continuing to enjoy your summer research projects. On this end the summer has gone by quite quickly - hopefully, slower for you all.

Thanks everyone for stepping up the writing this past month - I promise it will prove to be helpful to you all as time goes on. Below are the specific questions I'd like for you to address in your next prompt.

DEADLINE: Friday, July 17

- Briefly describe the current status of your project.
- How does your CBR experience compare to your initial expectations?
- What has been the most rewarding and challenging aspects of working with your community partner?


Thanks everyone. I look forward to reading them after the 17th!
Jenny

June posting

Hello CBR-SURFers,

It has been a pleasure keeping up with your progress thus far through your blogs. What a variety of experiences you are all having. I hope you are taking the opportunity to read one another's blogs - some of you may be experiencing very similar challenges and could be helpful in troubleshooting solutions. For those of you who have been blogging weekly, thank you for finding the time to do so. Those of you who have not, let's get started! I'll be replying to your individual postings next week.

You may recall that we'll be sending out a specific prompt each month that we'd like for you to write about - this helps us keep up on the progress of each of your projects. Here's June's prompt - please post within the next two weeks.

- Please share surprises or challenges you've encountered with your research project thus far.
- Has your research question or scope of your project shifted at this point?

Thanks everyone.
Jenny Huq

2009 CBR Projects!!!

Welcome to the program blog site of the 2009 University of North Carolina Community-Based Research (CBR) Summer Undergraduate Research Fellows! The CBR fellowship is the result of a collaboration between the APPLES Service-Learning Program, the Carolina Center for Public Service (CCPS) and the Office for Undergraduate Research (OUR).

Community-based research centers on a collaboration between the student, faculty, and community members in order to address a community need. The community partner plays an integral role in defining the issue and guiding the direction of the investigative research.

We have selected 9 CBR Fellows for summer 2009 who have proposed very interesting and important community-based research projects. A brief description of each is given below.

• Madhulika Eluri ~ Photovoice: Seeing Education Through the Eyes of Slum Children in Andhra Pradesh, India
  Altha Cravey, Faculty Mentor

• Elaina Giolando ~ Investigating Sustainable International Development in Guatemala
  John Stewart, Faculty Mentor

• Elisa Greenwood ~ Eliminating Educational Inequity in Orange County by Implementing Strategic Communications Strategies
  Jane Brown, Faculty Mentor

• Sarah Hatcher ~ Effects of Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation Location on Nitrate Contamination of Well Water - Southeastern North Carolina
  Steve Wing, Faculty Mentor

• Beth Sams ~ Computing and a Public Health Problem: An Innovative Solution to Fall Prevention for Older Adult - Orange County, North Carolina
  Gary Bishop and Tiffany Shubert, Faculty Mentors

• Alena Steen ~ Growing Together: Investigating Community Assets While Rebuilding a Local Food Economy - Fairview, North Carolina
  Rudi Colloredo-Mansfield, Faculty Mentor

• Maggie West ~ Using Local Microfinance to Assist Transitions from Homelessness-Durham and Orange Counties, North Carolina
  Gene Nichol, Faculty Mentor

• Cameron Zarrabzadeh ~ An Artistic Documentary Collaboration with the Tohono O’odham Communities of Arizona
  Beth Grabowski, Faculty Mentor