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Via Maryland Today / By Jenny Cox
Funding Supports Faculty, Students, Staff Driving Positive Change on Campus and Beyond
Programs to train the next generation of global stewards, to help visually impaired engineering students and to support Alzheimer’s disease caregivers are among the Terp-led projects receiving a total of $415,000 from the University of Maryland’s Do Good Campus Fund.
The Do Good Campus Strategic Leadership Council, in collaboration with Senior Vice President and Provost Jennifer King Rice and the Do Good Institute awarded this second annual round of grants to 22 teams with bold ideas to reimagine learning and advance efforts to serve humanity inside and outside the classroom.
The faculty, staff and student groups comprise almost every school and college and reach virtually all parts of the campus. The funding includes support from the campuswide Arts for All initiative, which provided matching funds with the Do Good Institute for a total of $70,000 in arts-related grants for projects to expand UMD’s Do Good Campus.
“More and more, doing good has become an intrinsic part of what it means to be a Terp. I can’t wait to support and learn from these outstanding new grantees as they lead us Fearlessly Forward, building a brighter future for the university and the world,” said James Stillwell, faculty director, Do Good Campus.
The Campus Fund grantees will use their award to scale their impact. The top three funding award recipients are:
UMD Global STEWARDS Undergraduate Program: Experiential Learning at the Food-Energy-Water (FEW) Nexus ($32,906)
School of Public Health
This project will engage students in UMD Global STEWARDS classroom experiences, international webinars featuring FEW experts, and research internships or independent study opportunities with international partners from Nepal, Tanzania and Israel. The funding will provide stipends for student interns to conduct a 10-week research project focused on the food-energy-water nexus.
Engineering for Visually Impaired Students ($32,095)
A. James Clark School of Engineering
Funding for the E4VIS project will enable instructors to use 3D-printing technology to provide visually impaired students with hands-on, accessible tools that help them understand complex concepts.
Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias Caregiver Program ($30,000)
College of Agriculture and Natural Resources
This project will expand support to caregivers from diverse ethnic and geographic communities to help them navigate the challenges they face in personal finance, health insurance, mental health and nutrition. This funding will help establish foundational teaching approaches and resources for these communities that will ensure the program’s sustainability.
See the full list of funded projects.