Anna Agbe-Davies is preserving African-American women’s history through archaeology – one house at a time
Posted on: May 2, 2018
By Becca Kronebusch For anthropology professor and Thorp Faculty Engaged Scholar Anna Agbe-Davies, archaeology is not digging through dirt searching for bones. Her work at the Pauli Murray House in Durham has her preserving and contextualizing the chil …
Seeking better connection
Posted on: March 15, 2018
For it to be — and do — any good, the relationship between a health-care provider and a patient must be built on trust. So, when Dr. Coretta Jenerette noticed that patients with Sickle Cell Disease (SCD) — 98 percent of whom are African-American — were …
Water Over the Bridge
Posted on: November 1, 2017
By Alyssa LaFaro, Endeavors From the competitive ports of China, to the innovative flood gates of the Netherlands, to the shifting sands of the Outer Banks, the sea creeps farther up the coastline every single day, and the distance between the top of t …
Social justice is Thorp Faculty Engaged Scholar Chérie Rivers Ndaliko’s passion
Posted on: October 25, 2016
In 2010, Chérie Rivers Ndaliko and her husband, internationally acclaimed Congolese filmmaker and activist Petna Ndaliko Katondolo, traveled to 33 colleges and universities around the country to show their film, Jazz Mama, which documents the strength …
Northside’s future takes shape
Posted on: September 6, 2016
For Thorp Faculty Engaged Scholar Della Pollock, preserving people’s life stories is more than a way to chronicle the past. It also creates a path to cultivate future aspirations. A multi-year project begun in 2007 in collaboration with St. Joseph C.M. …
UNC-Chapel Hill faculty recognized for engaged scholarship connecting with community
Posted on: August 30, 2016
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. – Engaging the community to help hungry children access food during the summer months is Maureen Berner’s passion. For the past two years, Berner, a professor in the School of Government, and seven other UNC faculty members worked on …
Thorp Faculty Engaged Scholars progam adds new faculty members
Posted on: June 30, 2016
Ten UNC faculty members were recently selected for the sixth class of Thorp Faculty Engaged Scholars. The program, named for former chancellor Holden Thorp and sponsored by the Carolina Center for Public Service, aims to bring together distinguished faculty from a variety of fields to learn from one another and advance their engaged scholarship.
Ten faculty members selected for Thorp Faculty Engaged Scholars program
Posted on: June 21, 2016
Ten faculty members at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill were recently selected for the sixth class of Thorp Faculty Engaged Scholars (FES). These scholars will develop projects in partnership with community organizations like Historic Stagville in Durham to study the skills and expertise of enslaved laborers and The Farm at Penny Lane to improve housing and other community-based services for individuals with severe and persistent mental illness.
Faculty Engaged Scholar serves to help seniors maintain mobility
Posted on: February 26, 2016
Through a combination of community engagement and experiential education opportunities, Thorp Faculty Engaged Scholars become champions of their research. Vicki Mercer, associate professor in the Department of Allied Health Sciences and a member of Thorp Faculty Engaged Scholars class V, also supports champions through her falls prevention program, CHAMP (Community Health and Mobility Partnership).
Faculty Engaged Scholar Cheryl Giscombe is dedicated to serving
Posted on: September 23, 2015
Thorp Faculty Engaged Scholar Dr. Cheryl Giscombe, an assistant professor in the School of Nursing, is undertaking research to combat inequities in the healthcare system. “I am motivated by my desire to contribute to the elimination of health and healthcare disparities,” Giscombe said. “My goal is to be an ambassador for mental health so that all people have access to high-quality mental health.”
Thorp Faculty Engaged Scholars Class IV graduate
Posted on: August 22, 2014
Nine Carolina faculty members have been honored for their engaged scholarship over the past two years. As part of the Thorp Faculty Engaged Scholars program, these professors worked to strengthen university-community partnerships through such work as t …
Faculty Engaged Scholars receive national award
Posted on: July 7, 2014
Professors Analyze Media Coverage of Sex Trafficking By Maura Devetski for The Daily Tar Heel 6/30/2014 UNC professors Barbara Friedman and Anne Johnston were recognized for their work on the Irina Project with the Donna Allen Award for Feminist Advoca …
Nine faculty members selected for fifth class of Thorp Faculty Engaged Scholars
Posted on: May 6, 2014
The next class of Faculty Engaged Scholars, leaders in their respective fields, will address a wide variety of issues including analyzing the administrative burden of summer meal programs for children in need, developing web-based resources for journal …
Early action can help with autism
Posted on: April 8, 2014
By Linda R. Watson One in 68 children show symptoms of autism spectrum disorder by the time they reach 8 years of age, according to statistics released last week by Centers for Disease Control. The meaning of these numbers is highlighted for me as I he …
Fedders submits brief to N.C. Center for Safer Schools
Posted on: January 15, 2014
UNC School of Law clinical assistant professor Barbara A. Fedders co-authored an issue brief submitted May 7 to the North Carolina Center for Safer Schools, a state program created in March 2013 that is currently seeking public comment on school safety …
Faculty Engaged Scholar Malinda Maynor Lowery named Tar Heel of the Week
Posted on: July 15, 2013
CHAPEL HILL — As a youth, Malinda Lowery considered history’s three most important figures to be Moses, Harriet Tubman and Henry Berry Lowrie – leader of a band of outlaw Lumbee Indians and African-Americans who fought Confederate soldiers seeking to …
Faculty Engaged Scholar Rebecca Macy continues engagement work through domestic violence prevention
Posted on: July 11, 2013
For most of her academic career, UNC researcher Rebecca Macy, Ph.D., a Faculty Engaged Scholar, has focused her work on solutions to prevent domestic violence and to help survivors …
Chancellor Thorp honored with endowment to support UNC faculty
Posted on: March 26, 2013
H. Holden Thorp, UNC’s outgoing chancellor, has been honored with the establishment of the Chancellor Holden Thorp Faculty Engaged Scholars Endowment at the Carolina Center for Public Service at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The endo …
Faculty Engaged Scholars and APPLES Service-Learning faculty receive teaching honors
Posted on: March 6, 2013
Twenty-four instructors in 18 different departments or schools, received 2013 University Teaching Awards at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the highest campus-wide recognition for teaching excellence. Five of those recognized are connected to CCPS programs as either Faculty Engaged Scholars or faculty for APPLES service-learning courses.
Faculty Engaged Scholars Lauterer and Nguyen engage the Carolina Way
Posted on: February 25, 2013
The News & Observer By John Drescher — Executive Editor Jock Lauterer was stunned and angry five years ago when Eve Carson, the student body president at UNC-Chapel Hill, was abducted from her house near campus early March 5 and murdered. Two young …
Classroom is community for Faculty Engaged Scholar Della Pollock
Posted on: January 23, 2013
Faculty Engaged Scholar and communication studies professor Della Pollock was collecting the stories of alumni of Chapel Hill’s former all-black high school for an oral history project when one man’s statement caught her off guard. “He said, ‘Y’all have studied the hell out of the black community and …
Faculty Engaged Scholars connect scholarship to community
Posted on: January 3, 2013
Making scholarship available to others is exactly what Jill Hamilton was aiming for when she placed her research in Good Housekeeping’s November 2012 issue. Hamilton was one of 10 people recently selected for the Faculty Engaged Scholars program, an initiative by the Carolina Center for Public Service designed to advance faculty involvement in the scholarship of engagement.
Faculty Engaged Scholar Patricia Garrett-Peters helps refugee children
Posted on: December 14, 2012
With a passion for helping a vulnerable refugee population, Faculty Engaged Scholar Dr. Patricia Garrett-Peters, a research assistant professor in the Department of Psychology and scientist with the Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute, has …
Faculty Engaged Scholar Ashley Lucas talks about Razor Wire Women
Posted on: October 13, 2012
Ashley Lucas keeps thinking about certain people holding her new book for the first time — incarcerated women and their families. That’s because it’s their book, too, filled with their artwork, poems and brutally honest essays about life behind prison …