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Focus areas: Quality of Place
Status: Completed
The Summer String Academy, which began in 1984, offers serious young string players between the ages of 12 and 18 an intensive and varied program under the direction of an outstanding faculty at one of the world’s most renowned schools of music....
Focus areas: Community Resilience, Sustaining Hoosier Communities
Status: Completed
The Greene County Youth Council was formed in Fall 2019 to provide a platform for high school youth to address relevant health topics among their peers, including topics like substance misuse and sexual health. Students in Deb Getz's youth workers...
Focus areas: Community Resilience
Status: Completed
This project supported the creation of “Creating Sense of Place through Design (SPH-R 221), a new undergraduate course in the Parks, Recreation, & the Outdoors (PRO) program in the Department of Health & Wellness Design, School of Public...
Focus areas: Quality of Place
Status: Completed
The Sustaining Rural Arts Education and Wellness (SRAEW) project developed a comprehensive multi-year approach to reaching rural communities with arts education and wellness experiences. The project leveraged existing programs of Creative Arts for...
Focus areas: Quality of Place
Status: Completed
Traditional Arts Indiana (TAI) employed graduate and undergraduate students as part of an initiative to identify and document the everyday expressive practices of older adults in the central Indiana region. Student fieldworkers received training in...
Focus areas: Community Resilience
Status: Completed
Through working with communities and collaborating with schools, this project measured the prevalence of food insecurity among teens in Monroe, Lawrence, and Washington counties. Using surveys, observations, and focus group interviews, this project...
Focus areas: Quality of Place
Status: Completed
A listening tour was conducted with staff and stakeholders in each of twenty public libraries in the eleven-county Uplands region in order to learn about immediate and long-term goals in the areas of public access, services provided, collection...
Focus areas: Quality of Place
Status: In progress
The Rural Placemaking Studio, a partnership of the Eskenazi School of Art, Architecture, and Design and the Center for Rural Engagement, will work with residents to design gateway signage greeting visitors to the town of Tipton.
Focus areas: Quality of Place
Status: Completed
Students developed arts-based resources for classroom use to inspire and educate students about solar eclipses and other astronomy topics.
Focus areas: Quality of Place
Status: Completed
The IU Center for Rural Engagement provided scholarships to 15 IU students to investigate how rural Indiana communities use the once-in-a-lifetime astronomical event to catalyze social connection through an arts and humanities lens. Eclipse Scholars...
