August (and final) prompt - due August 22

Everyone,

We are heading into the stretch here on your fellowships and it has been a tremendous pleasure to keep up with all of your successes and challenges this summer. I'll be sending thoughts to each of you separately by the end of the week, so keep an eye out for an email from me.

Please complete these final prompts no later than Sunday, August 22.

• Has your involvement in community-based research impacted your motivation to engage in community issues, research or service?
• What assistance will be most helpful to you in the fall semester in wrapping
  up your CBR project?
• Please share recommendations you would have for future Fellows knowing what you know now.

Jenny

July prompts - please post responses by July 30!

• What is the current status of your project?
• How does your fellowship experience compare to your initial expectations?
• What has been the most rewarding and challenging aspect of working with your community partner?
• What role has your faculty mentor played in guiding your work and helping you to address any problems that you have faced?
• In what ways have you needed to be flexible?

Again, if you have any questions, don't hesitate to contact myself (huq@email.unc.edu) or Madhu Eluri (eluri@email.unc.edu).

Jenny Huq

Prompt for June blog

CBR-SURFs,

I hope this finds you all well and fully engaged in your CBR projects at this point. It has been fun and informative staying connected to your projects through your blogs thus far. I encourage all of you to work towards blogging on a regular basis - weekly at a minimum. After your project has come to a close, you will really find these earlier reflections valuable and an indicator of just how much you've learned and accomplished this summer.

Below is the prompt for June we shared with you at Orientation.
Please respond to this prompt by June 19 and we'll offer responses from this end the last couple weeks of June. At that point I'll post July's prompt and we'll continue with that format throughout the end of August. If you have any questions, don;t hesitate to contact myself (huq@email.unc.edu) or Madhu (eluri@email.unc.edu).

June Prompt
- Please share surprises or challenges you've encountered with your fellowship project thus far.
- Talk about the scope of your project? Has it changed? Become more focused?

I look forward to reading these responses. Have great summers.
Jenny Huq

Welcome to CBR!

Welcome to the program blog site of the 2010 University of North Carolina Community-Based Research (CBR) Summer Undergraduate Research Fellows! The CBR fellowship is the result of a collaboration between the APPLES Service-Learning Program and the Office for Undergraduate Research (OUR).

Community-based research centers on a collaboration between the student, faculty, and community members in order to address a community need. The community partner plays an integral role in defining the issue and guiding the direction of the investigative research.

We have selected 7 CBR Fellows for summer 2010 who have proposed very interesting and important community-based research projects. A brief description of each is given below.

• Mallory Nickel: Designing Spaces, Visiting Places: Resources for Place-based Middle Grades Earth Science Education. Faculty Mentor: Kevin Stewart
  

• Lily Smith: The Changing Face of Property Ownership: Understanding the
  Complexities of Gentrification in the Northside Community of Chapel Hill. Faculty Mentor: Della Pollock
  

• Ben Rardin: Applicability of Microfinance and Business Training Within the Latino Community. Faculty Mentor: Darcy Lear

• Kimmie Garner: A La Frontera: Accessing Midwives at the U.S.-Mexico Border. Faculty Mentor: Karen Booth
  

• Anthony Peele: Can Export Commodities Lead to Sustainable Development in East Africa? Faculty Mentor:

• Clay Vickers: “Agua para Vida”. Faculty Mentor: Irving Hoffman
  

• Laurence Deschamps-Laporte: Family Planning in Senegal and Mali: Muslim Women's Decision-Making Process. Faculty Mentor: Dr. Omid Safi