My project is a collaboration with my friend Melvin Andrews, who is the founder and president of Gem City Recycling, an e-waste removal, transportation and certification company of more than two decades. My collaboration with Melvin is in aid of his transformation and expansion of his business to establish a thriving recycling center in West Dayton and, once established, to staff that facility via the proposed Gem City Recycling Empowerment Program, an initiative that is envisioned as engaging, hiring and mentoring recently incarcerated individuals in West Dayton and throughout the city as they work toward re-establishing and re-directing their lives in new and positive directions.

Rebecca Potter is a professor in the Department of English in the College of Arts and Sciences.

My project focuses on how solar projects the City of Dayton is initiating affect biodiversity and ecological processes. The senior capstone lab of Environmental Biology majors is collecting preliminary data, and my lab is tracking proposed solar sites over time to determine how the city's projects affect the environment in the hopes of collecting data that will be useful.

My project is part of a community-based partnership to evaluate how improved wages for early childhood education staff affects their well-being and children's learning. My specific role is assessing the school readiness skills of children involved in the program to assess growth.

My project involves building a community garden/green space on the Omega Community Development Corporation proerty located in the Dayton View Trangle neighborhood.

Students in Community Practice and Research are working with CityWide Development Corporation to support outreach efforts in the Carillon neighborhood of Dayton. Students are inviting neighborhood children to register for bike classes so they will be able to more fully utilize the Dayton Bike Yard, which is under construction in their neighborhood.

Chad Sloss is a lecturer specializing in Sociology in the Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Social Work.

My primary research interests are to employ GIS (Geographical Information System) tools to model physical and human geographical issues.

My project’s primary goal is to contribute to the preservation and validation (in scholarship and practice) of existing community knowledge and practices conducive to the formation of healthy habits in children, in order to promote the long-term prevention of chronic diseases. Students in my Spanish for the Health Professions class will work together with caregivers of Hispanic/Latinx children in a collaborative space that reflects the dialogic meeting of cultural practices and scientific approach, without privileging or discounting either.