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2016-17 Undergraduate Engaged Research Grants Recipients

When undergraduates do traditional research, they discover new ways of thinking, learning and working with faculty and fellow students. By creating new opportunities or expanding the number of students involved in existing research that is community engaged, Engaged Undergraduate Research Grants further enhance the student experience and its potential impact on partners and their communities.

  • Advancing High Road Student Research: Social Sector Studies in Action
    Increasing the number of opportunities for ILR students to translate policy and help Buffalo-based community partners better inform practices around community and economic development
  • Collaborative Engaged Research to Improve Community Health in Coastal Ecuador
    Engaging with local partners to study topics ranging from infectious disease to technology to nutrition in order to improve community health
  • Community-Engaged Research in the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve
    Connecting Cornell students with indigenous students in Southern India as they research land use and health issues
  • Crafting Independent Scientists Through an Analytical Approach to Craft Beer
    Connecting food science and chemistry students as they conduct research to aid the Ithaca Beer Company in evidence-based decision making
  • Engaged Risky Decision Making
    Studying adolescent perception of risk around driving, unprotected sex, and substance abuse in order to understand how behaviors change when risks and benefits are presented in different ways
  • High Energy Cost Burdens for Low-to-Moderate Income Rentals in Tompkins County
    Establishing a multidisciplinary team of students to work with low-income residents in Tompkins County on solutions to reduce household energy consumption and to determine ways to support communities with high energy burdens
  • Monitoring Riparian Restoration: Trees for Tribs in the Hudson and Beyond
    Partnering with the Hudson River Estuary Program to seek and evaluate solutions for improving degraded riparian areas in upstate New York watersheds
  • Rust to Green Binghamton: Living with Water Initiative
    Using a participatory-action approach to engage local and state government officials with residents and artists to achieve community flood resilience while working toward sustainable community development in Binghamton
  • Thinking outside of the (Nest)Box for Biological Research and Science Communication
    Engaging students with citizen scientists who define real-world research questions about the reproductive success of nesting birds and help foster excitement about communicating science to the public

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