Community Engagement Town Hall

Date: November 1, 2024

Time: 12:00-1:00 p.m.

Venue: Belknap Academic Building 218

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Presentations

Title: Project Qoricocha - A community-led reforestation effort in the Andes Mountains of Peru

Presenter Name:  DJ Biddle, Director, Center for Geographic Information Sciences

Description: Project Qoricocha is a multidisciplinary partnership between UofL, the Andean Alliance for Sustainable Development, and Campesino Forestal to monitor and assess reforestation efforts in the Qqencco community of the Peruvian Andes. Students collaborate with community members to identify project goals, and use cutting edge technologies to gather and interpret data about this unique ecosystem.

Title:  CeLOUbrate Print: A Community Printmaking Project

Presenters: Erica Lewis, Graduate Student, Comparative Humanities and Rachel Singel, Professor, Art & Design

Description: Hosted by the Portland Museum, CeLOUbrate Print is a community printmaking project with free, local woodcut workshops and a culminating event

Title: Center for Environmental Policy and Management: Community Engaged Scholarship that informs Participatory Governance and Participatory Research

Presenter: Lauren Heberle, Professor, Sociology 

Description: Dr. Lauren C. Heberle, Director of the Center for Environmental Policy and Management will discuss examples of community-engaged projects that highlight participatory governance and research with emphasis on how students have been able to gain experience working with community organizations and government agencies.

Community Engagement Virtual Town Hall

September 24, 2024, 12:00 - 1:00 p.m.

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Presentation 1: The Flooding in Appalachian Streams and Headwaters (FLASH) Initiative: Mitigating impacts of climate change and flash flooding in Appalachia

Presenters: Tyler Mahoney – Asst. Professor, Speed School of Engineering, Mary Brydon-Miller -  Professor, Educational Ldshp Eval & Organizational Dev, Stephanie Prost – Assoc. Professor, Kent School of Social Work & Family Science

Description: Overview of a new NSF-funded program focused on understanding the causes and effects of flash floods in Appalachian communities. This project will use both engineering and social science methodologies to improve community resilience to flash floods.

Presentation 2: Fitness Promotion: A Collaboration Between the Louisville Metro Police Department and the University of Louisville Exercise Physiology Program

Presenter:Mike Jett, Senior Lecturer, Lab Director, Exercise Physiology Department of Health and Sport Sciences, College of Education & Human Development

Description: A brief historical perspective of the type of relationship between the Louisville Metro Police Department and UofL Exercise Physiology Program, the genesis of the collaboration, current projects, and future plans.

Presentation 3: The Trauma Resilient Communities (TRC) Project: Building Community Resilience from the Inside Out.

Presenters: Jennifer Middleton – Assoc. Professor, Kent School of Social Work & Family Science & Co-Pi Louisville Trauma Resilient Communities (TRC), Beatriz Vides – Community Partner, Shantel Crosby – Assoc. Professor, Kent School of Social Work & Family Science

Project Description: The Trauma Resilient Communities (TRC) project aims to build resilience and equity in communities recently affected by trauma. In partnership with the Mayor's Office for Safe and Healthy Neighborhoods, as well as Be the Change, LLC, the TRC Project was first launched in Louisville, Kentucky in 2017, but has subsequently been implemented in impacted communities in New York, North Carolina, Tennessee, Florida, California, as well as internationally in Chile, Spain, and Jamaica.  The TRC project in Louisville, Kentucky specifically aims to help youth and their families heal and recover from the impact of community violence, racial trauma, and human trafficking by utilizing a resilience framework to disrupt systems and structures of oppression.

2024 UofL Engaged Scholarship Symposium 

The UofL Annual Engaged Scholarship Symposium is an annual opportunity to network and share current research and teaching activities involving community partners and service to the community. The ninth annual symposium was held March 22 at the Shelby Campus. 

UofL Libraries Professor Fannie Cox with community partner co-presenters from the Friends of the Parkland Library.

The theme for the 2024 Engaged Scholarship Symposium was Community-University Collaboration: Working in Partnership with Our Community with panel presentations, lightning talks and roundtables featuring university-community collaborations involving UofL and Bellarmine University (a full listing of the proceeding is available here). Many community partners attended the symposium as co-presenters with their university collaborators including Goodwill Industries of Kentucky, the Waggener High School Black Student Union, Friends of the Parkland Library, Common Earth Gardens of Catholic Charities, Play Cousins Collective, Collins High School in Shelby County, KY.

The annual Outstanding Community Engagement Awards also took place at the symposium. The Outstanding Community Engagement Award was created in 2009 to recognize faculty, staff, students and community partners involved in outstanding community engagement through volunteerism, outreach, partnerships, curricular engagement or engaged scholarship.

This year's honorees are:

• Student: Angel Okorie
• Staff: James Cripps 
• Faculty: Jennifer Middleton
• Community Partner: Redeemer Lutheran Church

2023 Gheens Community Engagement Mini-Grants Awards Ceremony

The Gheens Foundation Mini-Grants Program held an Award Ceremony and Luncheon at the University Club on Monday, October 30th, 2023. Learn more about the awardees here. 

2022 Partner Showcase at the 2020 Quad on the Belknap (October 13) 

2022 Community Engagement Luncheon at the University Club Ballroom (October 14)