Service Learning
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) [...]
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