CCREC Spring/Summer 2014 Newsletter

The Spring/Summer 2014 Newsletter of the Center for Collaborative Research for an Equitable California (CCREC) is now available!  See below for a quick overview of its contents.  Click here to access the newsletter.  All CCREC newsletters can be found here.

Spring/Summer 2014 Newsletter Contents:

Featured Advisory Board Member: Raquel Lopez, Executive Director of Casa de la Raza in Santa Barbara, CA, discusses her equity-oriented work and why she partners with CCREC and other university researchers.

Featured Fellow: Adrián Félix discusses his work with Mexican migrants and how CCREC is linking university and community efforts.

CCREC Highlights:

Five new planning and development grants are awarded for promising equity-oriented collaborative community-based research projects;

CCREC continues to support and improve the practice of equity-oriented collaborative research through a first annual summer institute on collaborative research for graduate students and early career scholars;

collaborative partnerships are creating opportunities for interdisciplinary dialogue and engagement through a variety of conferences coming soon;

a new Postdoctoral Scholar joins CCREC to increase CCREC’s capacity for providing guidance on best practices and tools for addressing the ethical issues in collaborative research;

and CCREC’s community-engaged computing initiative gets underway with the support of NSF and through key collaborative partnerships.

CCREC Fellows make a difference in the California and beyond through community engaged research.