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PENDING PROJECTS

Greeley Youth-at-Risk Afterschool Project: ($5,000)
El Pomar Foundation, Karl E. Eitel Fund
James Marshall (Sociology), Karen Barton (Geography), David Zobeck (Sociology), and
Bob Brunswig (School of Social Sciences)

UNC faculty, in partnership with Greeley’s Recreation Department, the Rodarte Center, and Greeley Elementary and Middle schools, will supervise college student mentors in a program to assist Grade Level 4-9 At-Risk-Youth in achieving school success and serve as role models in encouraging future aspirations for post-secondary education.

 

The Social Studies Literacy Project:  Teaching Reading through Civics, Geography, History: $198,616
Colorado Department of Education
Principal Investigator: Matthew Downey (Social Sciences); Co-Investigators: Alexander Sidorkin (School of Teacher Education) and Robert Brunswig (School of Social Sciences)
HRMEI

Phase 1 of a planned three year collaborative project between the university and Denver Public Schools (DPS). The project seeks to incorporate enhanced and more effective reading instruction in the core social studies disciplines in DPS’ 65 elementary schools, focusing on grades 3-5. Phase 1 will consist of a extensive review of current reading materials and instruction methods, identifying areas of potential improvement. Project investigators at UNC and DPS will then develop a new social studies reading course which will be piloted at 13 elementary schools in the district in project year 1. Phase 1 will create a foundation for additional grant funding in project years 2 and 3 where the new reading program will be improved and extended to the remaining 53 elementary schools in the Denver Public School system.

 

Forest Canyon Cultural Landscape-“Patch Ecology” Pilot Project ($9,988)
Rocky Mountain National Park
Bob Brunswig (School of Social Sciences) and James Doerner (Geography)

Pilot study for an interdisciplinary study and GIS model of natural and cultural landscape use of Forest Canyon Pass, Rocky Mountain National Park, over the past 11,000 years.
HRMEI

 

North Park Cultural Landscapes ($54,000)
Colorado State Historic Fund
Bob Brunswig (School of Social Sciences), Fredric Sellet (Anthropology), and Louise Elinoff (Anthropology/Stanford University)

Grant to fund expanded archaeological, paleoenvironmental, and Native American spiritual sites research studies for the North Park Cultural Landscapes Project for projects years 2008 and 2009.
HRMEI