“Not counting the personal relationships and other experiences of immeasurable value, my project yielded a database of 16+ hours of visual media.” ~ Joseph Marra, 2008 CBR SURF Fellow
Current CBR SURFS
Nine students have been selected to receive a Community-based Research (CBR) SURF Fellowship, jointly sponsored by the APPLES Service-Learning Program, the Carolina Center for Public Service (CCPS) and the Office for Undergraduate Research. These students will be working collaboratively with community members and a faculty mentor on their research project this summer. CBR-SURF projects address a community need and, ultimately promote social action and the common good.
Below are the 2009 CBR-SURF Fellows, their projects and faculty mentors. Follow along with their work this summer by visiting their blog.
• Madhulika Eluri
~ Photovoice: Seeing Education Through
the Eyes of Slum Children in Andhra
Pradesh, India
Altha Cravey, Faculty Mentor
• Bita Emrani ~ Prevalence
of Depression among Karen Refugees from
Burma in Chapel Hill and Carrboro
Deborah Bender, Faculty Mentor
• Elaina Giolando ~
Investigating Sustainable International
Development in Guatemala
John Stewart, Faculty Mentor
• Elisa Greenwood ~
Eliminating Educational Inequity in
Orange County by Implementing Strategic
Communications Strategies
Jane Brown, Faculty Mentor
• Sarah Hatcher ~ Effects
of Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation
Location on Nitrate Contamination of
Well Water - Duplin County, North Carolina
Steve Wing, Faculty Mentor
• Elizabeth Sams ~
Computing and a Public Health Problem:
An Innovative Solution to Fall Prevention
for Older Adult - Orange County, North
Carolina
Gary Bishop and Tiffany Shubert, Faculty
Mentors
• Alena Steen ~ Growing
Together: Investigating Community Assets
While Rebuilding a Local Food Economy
- Fairview, North Carolina
Rudi Colloredo-Mansfield, Faculty Mentor
• Maggie West ~ Using
Local Microfinance to Assist Transitions
from Homelessness-Durham and Orange
Counties, North Carolina
Gene Nichol, Faculty Mentor
• Cameron Zarrabzadeh ~
An Artistic Documentary Collaboration
with the Tohono O’odham Communities
of Arizona
Beth Grabowski, Faculty Mentor
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