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.
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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