Results for "community engagement"

Projects

The Texas PRIDE in Health Collaborative

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The Texas PRIDE in Health Collaborative is looking for undergraduate and graduate students interested in supporting various projects related to LGBTQ+ Health. Our current projects include:

  1. TIME…

Eco Entrepreneurship & Community Engagement

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Community engaged research design to identify needs/skills/desires of people in East Austin and on campus as is relates to food and the environment. Spreading wildflower seeds as a greenbelt; education on community…

Faculty

Kasey Claborn

Affiliated Departments:
Dell Medical School, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Dell Medical School, School of Social Work
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Dr. Claborn is the Director for the Addictions Research Institute at The University of Texas at Austin. She is currently the Principal Investigator of several federally-funded studies through NIDA and SAMHSA and is…

Elon M Lang

Affiliated Departments:
English, Humanities Program, Medieval Studies Program, The Thomas Jefferson Center for the Study of Core Texts and Ideas, School of Information, University Libraries, Harry Ransom Center
Research Interests:

digital archives, digital editions, editing in Medieval English, Medieval reading practices, philanthropy and non-profits, social justice, drama and performing arts

Pauline T Strong

Affiliated Departments:
College of Liberal Arts, American Studies, Anthropology, Center for Women's and Gender Studies
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I am interested in cultural anthropology; climate justice; Museum Studies; Native American and Indigenous Studies; culture and health; cultural identities and differences; the politics of representation; youth…

Angela Valenzuela

Affiliated Departments:
Center for Mexican American Studies, Mexican American and Latina/o Studies, Curriculum and Instruction, Educational Leadership and Policy
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Urban education from a sociological and multicultural perspective, with a focus on minority youth in schools, particularly at the K-12 level. Other areas of interest include immigration, human rights, and U.S.-Mexico…

Patricia A Wilson

Affiliated Departments:
School of Architecture, Community & Regional Planning, University Libraries
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Creating library archive about UT research and teaching  in community engagement; participatory planning; and  grassroots democracy.  In Austin, elsewhere in U.S, and in countries of the Global South,…