Category: CED News & Miscellaneous
Student Corner: Caswell high school students collaborate with UNC students to research barriers and facilitators to a healthy lifestyle
Peter Balvanz is a graduate student in the Department of Health Behavior and Health Education at the Gillings School of Global Public Health. Students from the University of North Carolina’s Gillings School of Global Public Health are in the process of conducting a community-based participatory rese … Read more
CCP Small Grants Available
Will Lambe is the Director of the Community-Campus Partnership and Associate Director for the Community & Economic Development Program. The Community-Campus Partnership (CCP) seeks proposals from Carolina faculty, students and staff, for projects that align with local priorities in Caswell and/o … Read more
Student Corner: Update: Bicycle and Pedestrian Planning Grant
Kate Pearce is a graduate student in the Department of City and Regional Planning and works in Caswell County. The NCDOT Division of Bicycle and Pedestrian Transportation will announce recipients of the 2010 Bicycle and Pedestrian Planning Grant Initiative in June of 2010. Caswell County applied fo … Read more
Funding Opportunity – Caswell & Lenoir Counties
Will Lambe is the Director of the Community-Campus Partnership and Associate Director for the Community & Economic Development Program. Non-profit organizations working on education/community development in Lenoir and Caswell Counties may be eligible for up to $20,000 in grant funds. Application … Read more
Student Corner: *UPDATE* CCP Provides Small Grant to Promote Healthy Lifestyles Among Caswell Youth
Kendra Cotton is a Project Director with the Community-Campus Partnership Program. The Community-Campus Partnership has awarded a small grant in support of three UNC graduate student researchers working to explore the social, structural, and environmental factors that facilitate or prevent County y … Read more
CareerStart brings STEM career relevance to middle school classrooms
This is a guest post from Dr. Dennis Orthner, Professor of Social Work and Education at UNC-Chapel Hill. The topic of this post is CareerStart, an effective and low-cost education intervention that ties middle school lesson plans to information about careers, including those in Science, Technology, … Read more
Summer Internships – UNC Undergraduate and Graduate Students – Marketing, Communications and Public Relations
Will Lambe is the Director of the Community-Campus Partnership and Associate Director for the Community & Economic Development Program. The Community-Campus Partnership (CCP) at the UNC School of Government is seeking two student interns (one graduate and one upper-class undergraduate) for the s … Read more
Student Corner: Yanceyville Open House
John Killeen is a graduate student in the Department of City and Regional Planning working in Caswell County. This evening (Thursday February 25), a public event will be held celebrating the official opening of Yanceyville’s new civic facility. Starting at 5pm, the public is invited to join town cou … Read more
Student Corner: Public health students seek to understand what facilitates and hampers a healthy lifestyle among Caswell County youth
Peter Balvanz is a graduate student in the Department of Health Behaviors and Health Education at the School of Public Health Since September of last year a small group of students from the UNC School of Public Health’s Department of Health Behaviors and Health Education have been conducting a healt … Read more
Asset building in Lenoir County
Will Lambe is the Director of the Community-Campus Partnership and Associate Director for the Community & Economic Development Program. The Lenoir-Greene County Partnership for Children, the Little Bank, and Southeast Elementary School in Kinston operate a unique, local asset building program fo … Read more