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    Communicating nanoscience and the communication center: An INNOVATE case study

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    Communication Centers are well positioned to support communicating science efforts across campus. This manuscript, written by faculty who designed and facilitated a potpourri of support for nanoscience during the 2017-18 academic year, provides a detailed place to start for those who will take on this work at other institutions

    The Beacon, February 20, 2015

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    Vol. 26, Issue 65, 8 pageshttps://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/student_newspaper/1754/thumbnail.jp

    v. 83, issue 11, February 11, 2016

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    Pre-K Counts in Pennsylvania for Youngsters' Early School Success: Authentic Outcomes for an Innovative Prevention and Promotion Initiative

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    Examines the research base for the efficacy of early childhood education. Evaluates Pennsylvania's Pre-K Counts programs, including participants' characteristics, impact and quality of programs and partnerships, lessons learned, and recommendations

    Insights and Lessons: Community Arts and College Arts - A Report to The Kresge Foundation

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    This report examines two pilot initiatives, Community Arts and College Arts, launched during the 2008 economic downturn. After the completion of the multiyear initiatives, the Kresge Foundation commissioned a report on the effort. The qualitative analysis offers lessons and insights on the theme of art-based civic dialogue and community revitalization

    Youth Development Approaches in Adolescent Family Life Demonstration Projects

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    Youth development (YD) strategies in conjunction with appropriate age-graded sexuality and family life education programs/curricula may have an important role to play in formulating convincing answers to these questions. Youth development approaches help youth enhance their assets rather than concentrating on their difficulties. They focus on where youth are going, helping them develop a belief in a viable future and in their ability to take actions that will bring that future about. The commitment to a future that would be disrupted by a pregnancy during adolescence is about the only thing that Zabin and her colleagues (1986) found to differentiate among Baltimore adolescents using teen clinics who did and did not get pregnant. Teens without a strong reason to avoid pregnancy got pregnant at the same rate as those who wanted to get pregnant; the only teens who were successful at avoiding pregnancy were those who had a future goal that a pregnancy would disrupt. Thus, incorporating youth development principles along with some specific techniques into the work of the Office of Adolescent Pregnancy Programs' (OAPP) abstinence-oriented programs would seem to be an important program enhancement with potentially valuable impacts

    Youth Education - Programs / Projects

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    Christine Bozak: 4-H Steers that Work. Rebecca Brooks: Relationship Skills Education. Travis Burke: Defining Competency in the 4-H Professional’s Job. Holly L. Hays Butler: 4-H at the Indiana School for the Deaf . Kevin D. Chilek: Quality Assurance Program for Youth Livestock Exhibitors. Graham Cochran: Lessons from an Innovative Urban Youth Education Center. Steve Cramer: Use Activities Fun and Humor to Teach Character Education. Annette Devitt: Life on the Farm Project. Janet Edwards: Emotional Intelligence. Mary Forster: Teamwork Provides the Pathway to Culinary Success for Teens. Dave Francis: Working with the Private Sector to Create Quality Programs. Donna R. Gillespie: 4-H What is it?. Donna R. Gillespie: Minidoka County 4-H teen Association. Jolie Ogg Graybill: Drop Your Jeans and Give Me H.U.G.S.! Linda Green: Building a Comprehensive Support System for Cooperative Extension. Jason A. Hedrick: Project Recycle. Greg Hickey: Educational Adventures for Youth Exploring Agriculture. Christine E. Jensen: Developing Entrepreneurship Skills. Beverly Kelbaugh: Empowering and Developing Effective Teen Boards. Boyd Kitchen: Youth Livestock Projects. Jennifer Berschet Klee: Sewing in the 21st Century. David McMurtry: Educating Volunteers to Work with Special Needs. Lucinda B. Miller: People and Animals Linking Successfully. Sonia Morales Osegueda: Extension Role in Higher Education. Curt Peters: A 4-H Oral History. Joey Peutz: Change-Enjoy It with 4-H Teens. Robert Duane Plymale: Washington American Citizenship Trip. Debra Proctor: Strengthening Youth and Families. Barbara Schmidt: Nebraska 4-H Quilt Project. Jan Scholl: Eighty Years of 4-H Research. Marcie Simpson: 4-H Community Service Project. Jill Stechschulte: Themeology. Linda Tannehill: Life Lessons through Raising Guide Dogs

    volume 22, no. 1 (Spring 2015)

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    Tackling Wicked Problems Through Engaged Scholarship

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    Engaged scholarship combines the work of universities with that of community partners. The results can be powerful examples of the synergy that arises between theory and practice. By examining engaged scholarship and reflecting on the nuances that exist between it and engaged research, this paper follows the ways that research questions can be explored in a practical application versus in a controlled environment. I examine the benefits of community-engaged scholarship relative to service recipients, scholars, organizations, and communities at large. The academic benefits extend far beyond the universities; engaged scholarship allows for university programs to provide realistic training to students as an example of future work-related duties and assignments and to collaborate with community partners in service delivery. Results of collective collaboration and community-engaged scholarship can lead to a strengthened sense of community in lasting partnerships that increase dialogue surrounding challenging issues

    Lilly Endowment Annual Report 2015

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    During 2015, the Endowment paid grants totaling 435.5million.Communitydevelopmentgrantsaccountedfor435.5 million. Community development grants accounted for 200.4 million (46 percent), religion grants accounted for 124.1million(29percent)andeducationgrantsaccountedfor124.1 million (29 percent) and education grants accounted for 111.0 million (25 percent). Most grants were paid to organizations in Indiana - a total of 257.8million(59percent).Ofthepaymenttotalof257.8 million (59 percent). Of the payment total of 435.5 million, 107.9million(25percent)waspaidtononMarionCountygranteesinIndianaand107.9 million (25 percent) was paid to nonMarion County grantees in Indiana and 149.9 million (34 percent) to Marion County (Indianapolis) grantees. Organizations outside of Indiana received $177.7 million (41 percent). Most of these grants paid outside of Indiana were religion grants.The annual report includes a complete list of 2015 grants
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