Community Outreach
Providing Students with Better Educational Opportunities
My service work in Kenya this summer. By Nganga Muchiri ’09 Nganga Muchiri ’09 (Nairobi, Kenya) and Catherine Munyua ’10 (Kanjuku via Thika, Kenya) spent their summer working to expand opportunities for students in a high school in Ikutha, Kenya. Their project was sponsored by a $10,000 grant from the Kathryn Wasserman Davis 100 Projects [...]
Service-Learning Project Contributes to Health Literacy in Easton
Students will work with local community partners Two professors are laying the groundwork for future community-based research by creating a health literacy project that will involve community partners in the Lehigh Valley. Starting in the fall, this unique research will take the form of a service learning project within sociology courses and eventually emerge as [...]
Professor Deborah Byrd Contributes to International, Interdisciplinary Study on Single Mothers
She will use her experience with Easton organizations to collaborate with researchers from the United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia This summer, Deborah Byrd, associate professor of English, will contribute to a multinational, interdisciplinary research study on the development of empowerment programming for young mothers. She will be collaborating with the Social Sciences and Humanities Research [...]
Providing the Community with Easy Access to Information
Students work with Professor Debbie Byrd to produce child and health care resources for Easton By Danielle Ward ’08 Students working with Deborah Byrd, associate professor of English, have helped develop two directories meant to serve as childcare and health services resources for the people of Easton and the surrounding areas. The first publication is [...]
Working toward a Better Easton
My internship with the Weed and Seed program. By Danielle Rosiejka ’08 Government and law major Danielle Rosiejka ’08 (Allentown, N.J.) is serving an internship with the director of Easton’s Weed & Seed program. Weed and Seed is a nonprofit that tries to “weed” out gang violence, poverty, etc. in Easton’s West Ward and “seed” [...]
Giving Teens the Support They Need
My internship at the Easton Cyber Caf�. By Karlyn Adams ’09 Psychology major Karlyn Adams ’09 (Ford City, Pa.) is an intern at the Easton Weed and Seed Program’s Cyber Caf�. The Cyber Caf� offers teenagers a safe hangout afterschool. The Caf� provides students with homework help, healthy snacks, and access to computer and internet [...]
Kristen Tyler ’10 Will Tackle Social Injustice in Chile this Summer
Service learning program runs May 31 – July 26 While many of her fellow students will be returning to jobs and catching some rays this summer, Kristen Tyler ’10 (Rancho Palos Ve, Calif.) will be tackling social injustice in Santiago, Chile. Tyler will be traveling May 31 – July 26 with a community-based learning (CBL) [...]
Robert Peoples ’08 Publishes Research in Journal of Parasitology
Project with Bernard Fried, Kreider Professor Emeritus of Biology, explores factors that kill food-borne parasites Biology major Robert Peoples ’08 (Bear, Del.) and Bernard Fried, Kreider Professor Emeritus of Biology, have published research on ways to kill cysts of food-borne parasites in the Journal of Parasitology. They have been working together since 2005 examining trematodes, [...]
Kira Moore ’09 Measures Accuracy of ‘Flashbulb Memories’
Neuroscience major is performing EXCEL research with Jennifer Talarico, assistant professor of psychology Kira Moore ’09 (Lincoln Park, N.J.) is a Marquis Scholar majoring in neuroscience. This year, she is working as an EXCEL Scholar with Jennifer Talarico, assistant professor of psychology, on the project “Freshman Flashbulbs: Vivid Memories of Starting College.” The following is [...]
Health Care for All
Lauren Moulder ’08 explores possibilities for universal health care in the United States Lauren Moulder ’08 (Eden Prairie, Minn.) is a double major in economics & business and French. She is working on an honors thesis exploring possibilities for universal health care in the United States under the guidance of Susan Averett, Dana Professor and [...]
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