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UT-REACH for September 13, 2012
UT-REACH is ordinarily published once a week.
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“It has been our obligation and privilege throughout the process to involve the community, through research questionnaires, public design meetings, and engagement in cemetery survey opportunities.
We support not only the community as we move the project ahead, but we support our students as they learn… and impress upon them how design decisions may directly impact the nature of a public space.”
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Katherine Ambroziak, UT Assistant Professor of Architecture (see below)
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UT NEWS:
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UT Service-Learning Coordinator Seeks 1-Yr VISTA
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Students, Faculty, and Community Engage in Local Cemetery Project
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Local High School Student to Join UT Research Team Presenting at Conference
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UT Art Students Partner with Knoxville Zoo
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Meets Today:
United Way Seeks UT Partners
6.
Social Impact Career & Volunteer Fair
FUNDING:
8.
2012 Call for Proposals: UTK Outreach and Engagement Funding
9.
NIH: Basic Social & Behavioral Research on Culture, Health & Wellbeing (R24)
10.
NSF: Revised National Robotics Initiative (NRI) solicitation
11.
Bank of America: Grants for Nonprofits Addressing Basic Needs in Low-Income Communities
12.
Bank of America: Arts and Sports Sponsorships to Maintain Vibrant, Healthy Communities
13.
Association of Performing Arts Presenters: Cultural Exchange Fund Awards
NEW READINGS & RESOURCES:
14.
National Engagement Award Announced
15.
Rewarding Community-Engaged Scholarship: Transforming University Policies and Practices
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Service Learning’s Increased Popularity in Business Schools
QUICK LINKS: ENGAGEMENT FUNDING, SUBMISSION CALLS, CONFERENCES, AND MORE:
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UT NEWS:
1.
UT Service-Learning Coordinator Seeks 1-Yr VISTA
UT’s is currently hiring a “Volunteers in Service to America” (VISTA) member to serve a one-year term at UTK. This person will work closely with the Campus
Coordinator for Service-Learning to develop infrastructure and build capacity for a centralized service-learning presence.
Please note the very tight deadline, below! Preference will be given to applications by UT alumni, including December 2012 grads.
Deadline to apply: Monday, September 17, 2012. Interviews Tues-Thurs
Details: see attachment
2.
Students, Faculty, and Community Engage in Local Cemetery Project
UT classes were done last spring, but students and faculty were still hard at work, meeting the mayor for a community presentation and ribbon-cutting
ceremony. Funded in part by a UT Outreach Incentive Grant, a carefully researched prototype for a cemetery wall was unveiled at the ceremony, the new wall being an integral component of the Odd Fellows Cemetery and Potters Field Rehabilitation Project.
What would YOU do with an Outreach Incentive Grant?
2012-13 Call for proposals (due Oct. 5)
3.
Local High School Student to Join UT Research Team at iGem Conference
Dr. Cong Trinh, Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering, has invited high school student Brandon Wilbanks to join his team of UT students presenting
their work at a Pittsburg conference next month. Wilbanks, a student at Powell High School, is part of UT’s unique
Pre-Collegiate Research Scholars Program.
The
International Genetically Engineered Machine competition (iGEM)
bills itself as the world’s premiere undergraduate Synthetic Biology competition. Student teams are each given a kit of biological parts at the beginning
of the summer. Teams use these parts along with new parts of their own design to build biological systems, and then operate them within living cells.
4.
UT Art Students Partner with Knoxville Zoo
A group of art students collaborated with the Knoxville zoo to design, build, and install a large obelisk in the
new lion and baboon exhibits. The students were enrolled in a sculpture course this summer, taught by Patricia Tinajero, an assistant professor in the School of Art. “…the zoo receives approximately 400,000 visitors each year, making this site a prime location
for viewing and engaging with public art,” Tinajero said.
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TODAY: United Way
Seeks UT Partners
Enjoy doing community service and looking for ways to get involved in the Knoxville community? Come to the United Way meeting at 6:30 p.m.
Thursday, Sept. 13 in HSS 203.
Questions:
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6.
Social Impact Career & Volunteer Fair
Career Service’s Center for Impact Careers and the Center for Leadership and Service invites you to attend the 4th Annual Social Impact Fair.
This is a chance for students of all years, disciplines and interests to discuss volunteer, intern and job opportunities. Past events have hosted approximately 60 organizations with diverse missions including, environmental conservation, youth outreach, community
and international development, social ventures and enterprises, civic engagement, education, clean energy, and healthcare to name a few.
When:
September 19th, 2012, 2pm-5pm
Where: University Center Ballroom
Details & to View List of Participating Organizations
UT will again provide faculty, students, and community members with tools to start and grow their own businesses through the fall Vol Court program, which begins September 25. Vol Court is a series of one-hour workshops which will
run through November 6. The final session will be a pitch competition where top presenters or teams will win cash prizes and valuable free business services.
FUNDING:
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2012 Call for Proposals: UTK Outreach and Engagement Funding
Proposals may be for projects, partnerships, or programs that promote the principles of engagement as applied to research, teaching, or outreach. Prospective
applicants are encouraged to review previously-funded projects as well as the funding guidelines, all of which can be viewed on UT’s Public Engagement website.
Application Deadline:
October 5, 2012
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NIH: Basic Social & Behavioral Research on Culture, Health & Wellbeing (R24)
Program provides grants for infrastructure support to develop, strengthen, and evaluate transdisciplinary approaches and methods for basic behavioral and/or social research on the relationships among cultural practices/beliefs,
health, and wellbeing. This includes an appreciation for more comprehensive understandings of the relationships regarding cultural attitudes, beliefs, practices, and processes, on outcomes relevant to human health and wellbeing.
Deadline: LOI 11/16/2012; Proposal 12/17/2012
10.
NSF: Revised National Robotics Initiative (NRI) solicitation
The purpose of this program is the development of this next generation of robotics, to advance the capability and usability of such systems and artifacts,
and to encourage existing and new communities to focus on innovative application areas. Collaboration between academic, industry, non-profit and other organizations is strongly encouraged to establish better linkages between fundamental science and technology
development, deployment and use.
Deadline: Dec.11, 2012 (small proposals); Jan. 23, 2013 (large proposals)
11.
Bank of America: Grants for Nonprofits Addressing Basic Needs in Low-Income Communities
The Bank of America Charitable Foundation invites U.S. nonprofits to submit funding proposals for local programs that address the critical needs facing low-income communities through emergent or “lifeline” services such as hunger relief,
short-term supportive shelter, and benefits access. The Foundation will invest $10 million to support vital community efforts to assist individuals and families with immediate services and financial empowerment programs that promote long-term economic stability.
(Note: lead applicant must be a nonprofit.)
Deadline: Oct. 8, 2012
12.
Bank of America: Arts and Sports Sponsorships to Maintain Vibrant, Healthy Communities
Through regional U.S. sponsorships, the Bank of America supports the economic, social and cultural life of the places we live and work. The Bank provides an extensive program of arts and sports sponsorships to help maintain
vibrant, healthy communities. This includes underwriting art exhibitions, events and performances that require private funding to make them a reality. Regional sports sponsorship investments include the Bank of America Chicago Marathon, Major League Baseball®
and Bank of America 500®.
13.
Association of Performing Arts Presenters: Cultural Exchange Fund Awards
The Cultural Exchange Fund is a travel subsidy program supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to assist U.S.-based professionals, organizations and companies to build partnerships and collaborations with international touring
artists, companies and their collaborators and to experience the work of artists from around the world in its cultural context. Funders strongly encourage, but do not limit travel to, the following regions: Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East.
Deadline: November 16, 2012
(for travel period Jan 2013-May 2013)
NEW READINGS & RESOURCES:
14.
National Engagement Award Announced
The New England Resource Center for Higher Education (NERCHE) is pleased to present the 2012 Ernest A. Lynton Award to Dr. Jordan Karubian,
Assistant Professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana. The annual Ernest A. Lynton Award for the Scholarship of Engagement for Early Career Faculty recognizes a faculty member who connects
his or her teaching, research, and service to community engagement. The award is designated for either pre-tenure faculty at tenure-granting campuses or early career faculty (i.e., within the first six years) at campuses with long-term contracts.
15.
Rewarding Community-Engaged Scholarship: Transforming University Policies and Practices
Hat-tip to Community-Campus Partnerships for Health, whose Executive Director, Serena Seifer, recently met with a consortium of university promotion & tenure committees to discuss assessment of community-engaged
scholarship.
16.
Service Learning’s Increased Popularity in Business Schools
(Hanover Research) "Research indicates that several developments in management education have led to the growth of the service learning approach in this discipline, namely: an increasing focus on social responsibility and community well-being; a shift
from a purely economic perspective to a balanced focus on profits, quality of life, spirituality, and social responsibility; and a shift from self-centeredness to interconnectedness. Based on this evolution in the business field, authors Fahri Karakas and
Mustafa Kavas have developed the Service Learning 2.0 model."
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Special Issue of Information, Community & Society: Community Partnership Research in IT, Management and Systems.
Articles include:
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WORKING WITH COMMUNITIES: Community partnership research in information technology, management and systems
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NATURALIZING COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT IN INFORMATION STUDIES:
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Pedagogical approaches and persisting partnerships
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THIS IS NOT A GUIDE TO INDIGENOUS RESEARCH PARTNERSHIPS: But it could help
[[UT-REACH ed. Award for Best Title]]
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ACADEMIC AND ETHICAL CHALLENGES IN PARTICIPATORY MODELS OF COMMUNITY RESEARCH
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BRIDGING COMMUNITIES: Foundations for the interchange of ideas
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COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH PARTNERSHIPS IN THE COMMUNITY: Digital Divas and Doing IT Better
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INCLUSIVE RESEARCH DESIGN: Unraveling the double hermeneutic spiral
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INNOVATING RELATIONSHIPS: Taking a co-productive approach to the shaping of telecare services for older people
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More
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QUICK LINKS: ENGAGEMENT FUNDING, SUBMISSION CALLS, CONFERENCES, AND MORE:
September 2012:
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United Way Seeking Partners.
Meeting TODAY: Thursday, 6:30 p.m. in HSS 203.
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Comments Invited: Standards for Patient-Centered Outcomes Research. Deadline September 14, 2012.
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UT Service-Learning Coordinator Seeks 1-Yr VISTA. Apply by Sept 17, 2012. Details:
[log in to unmask]
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Social Impact Career & Volunteer Fair, September 19th, 2012, 2pm-5pm, UC ballroom.
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Get Help, Win Cash
Prizes at Vol Court, Running Sept 25-Nov 6.
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Nominations Sought for Young Social Entrepreneur Award. Nomination Deadline September 30, 2012.
October 2012:
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2012 Call for Proposals: UTK Outreach and Engagement Funding. Proposal Deadline October 5, 2012.
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NSF CyberCorps: Scholarship for Service (SFS) solicitation. Proposal Deadline October 12, 2012.
November 2012:
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Tribeca Film Institute Documentary Fund. Application deadline November 5, 2012.
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NEA Funding for Research on How Art Works. Deadline: November 6, 2012.
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Call for Proposals: Conference on Community-University Partnerships. Due November 15, 2012.
December 2012:
January 2013:
February 2013:
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IMPACT National Conference: February 21-24, 2013.
Ongoing:
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Call for papers: eJournal of Public Affairs on Public Scholarship. Ongoing
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Call for papers: Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement. Ongoing and special issues.
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Call for papers: International Journal for Service Learning in Engineering
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Call for submissions: Global Journal of Community Psychology Practice
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Bank of America (Funding): Arts and Sports Sponsorships to Maintain
Vibrant, Healthy Communities.