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Engineering Projects in Community Service (EPICS)

Student Presentations and Pizza Party

Come out for pizza and learn about CBLI & EPICS!

Monday, May 7, 2012 @ 12:00 p.m.

Bowen Hall Auditorium Room 222

Undergraduates in all departments are encouraged to enroll in this exciting hands-on course! At the start of the semester, students select one of three projects; each team will then decide upon a mutually convenient meeting time. Teams will meet and work throughout the academic year and must enroll in the 2-course sequence, e.g., EGR 250 and EGR 251, to receive full credit for the EPICS course (either Fall/Spring or Spring/Fall). Freshmen and sophomores enroll in 250 & 251, juniors in 350 & 351, and seniors in 450 & 451, respectively. If you have any questions about registering for EPICS, contact Victoria Dorman: vdorman@princeton.edu

For more information about the class, visit: EPICS

Dobin Prize for Independent Research

Submissions Due April 27, 2012

Attention Juniors and Seniors!

CBLI is accepting submissions for the

Dean Hank Dobin Prize in Community-Based Independent Work

CBLI invites juniors and seniors who have completed independent work on a community-based topic to submit their thesis or junior paper. Please include an abstract and a brief statement describing individuals and/or organizations who have benefitted, or who might be able to benefit, from your work.

The Dobin Prize is awarded annually to the best thesis or junior paper which involves extensive research in a community setting and provides recommendations, new information and analysis, and/or other resources useful to the community. The prize is named after Dean Hank Dobin, who was instrumental to the creation of CBLI during his time at Princeton.

First Prize: $250

Second Prize: $100

Third Prize: $50

Submissions are due by 3pm on Friday, April 27, 2012

Please submit your complete paper, the abstract, and your statement regarding community benefit in two formats:

1) via email to: Trisha Thorme, tthorme@princeton.edu.

and

2) in hard copy, without binding (one copy, looseleaf, to the CBLI office by 3pm on 4/27)

The Prize will be awarded on Class Day.

For more information contact CBLI at 258-6986 or cbli@princeton.edu

EXTENSIONS:

EEB and other departments with late thesis due-dates are eligible for an extension to May 1 at 5pm

Community-Based Research OPEN HOUSE

Independent Work & Derian Summer Internships

Looking for a Summer Internship or a JP/Thesis topic?

We can help!

CBLI develops relationships with local nonprofit organizations that have an interest in working with students to gather, analyze, and share information about their programs.

Learn More at the CBLI Open House:

This Friday, February 10, 2012, 2-4 pm

CBLI office, U-Store Building, 3rd Floor, Suite 340

Drop in for delicious food from local restaurants, pick up a catalogue of fresh ideas for research projects, and chat with CBLI staff about how your internship or independent work can benefit local nonprofits and communities!

Questions? email: cbli@princeton.edu

Summer Internship Applications are due in TigerTracks by February 15!

2011 Dobin Prize Winners

Congratulations to the winners of the 2011 Dean Hank Dobin Prize!

First

Joshua Franklin, Anthropology, Claiming the Right to Transgender Health in Brazil

Second

Sonia Porter, Anthropology, The Art of Aspiration: Crafting Life Chances at an Income Generation Project in Cape Town, South Africa

Third

Nelson Farayi Chiwara, Woodrow Wilson School, Challenges to PMTCT programs in resource-limited settings: Lessons from Makoni District, Zimbabwe

Honorable Mention

Léa Steinacker, Woodrow Wilson School, “Where have you been? No one ever asks us these questions, no one ever wants to know.” An ecological approach to the risks of female sex workers in rural Kenya

Recent Courses

Students in Professor Xenia Morin’s ENV307 (Agriculture and Food:A Foundation for Living) classdesigned and collected surveys fromnearly 300 middle school studentsin Hopewell, NJ, to determinethe choices students made amonga variety of foods available forlunch and their assessment ofthe appearance, quality, and tasteof those choices. One Princetonstudent noted that the projectoff ered her fi rst opportunity todevelop a paper “largely based onsurvey results.”

Professor Mitch Duneier’s SOC 205, (Sociology from E Street: Bruce Springsteen’s America) included a community-based research projectwith the YWCA-Princeton’s Englishas a Second Language program. With preceptor Rob Hunter, ten students explored the basics of ethnographic research including designing their own interview questions and then conducted interviews with ESL students to learn about their backgrounds, what brought them to the YWCA, and how the program has impacted the ESL students' English-speaking ability as well as other aspects of their lives.

Projects

Students enrolled in Melissa Harris-Lacewell's "The Politics of Race and Health in America"examined structural and political reasons for racial disparities in the rates of cancer, diabetes, HIV/AIDS, infant mortality and other health issues and conducted community-based research in Camden, New Brunswick, Newark and Trenton, New Jersey. Check out the class blog and newsletter--and the final report: Food-Related Issues in Urban New Jersey.

Dobin Prize for Independent Research

Congratulations to the 2010 winners!

First
Alex Gertner, Anthropology, Pharmaceutical Care, Public Experiments and Patient Knowledge in the Brazilian Public Healthcare System

Second
Henry Barmeier, Woodrow Wilson School, Why is Government in the Garden? Case Studies of Resilient Co-Governance in Urban Community Gardening Programs

Third
Jessica Lanney, Woodrow Wilson School, Under One Roof: Integrating Affordable Housing and Family Homelessness Policy in Massachusetts

Honorable mention
Emily Hildner, Politics, Disaster Racism: Cultural Weapons of Resistance and the Politics of Black Empowerment in Post-Katrina New Orleans