Dr. Sudha Shreeniwas of Human Development and Family Studies, Dr. Sharon Morrison of Public Health Education, community advocate Andrew Young, and the Montagnard Dega Association/Montagnard American Organization were recently honored with the inaugural Community Outcomes and Impacts Award.
The new International Association for Research on Service Learning and Community Engagement award “recognizes excellence in service-learning and community engaged research” and targets groups whose research has created outstanding impact or has measurably benefited a community.
The association will formally confer the award to Shreeniwas, Morrison, Young, and Montagnard Dega Association Co-chairwoman Sun Bujri at its annual conference on October 23rd.
“We are humbled and grateful for this recognition of our years of community engaged work and service-learning activities with the Montagnard community of Greensboro, NC,” says Dr. Morrison. “The real honors should go to the youth, elders, women, and leaders who have worked so hard for their community all this time, and we have just worked along with them.”
Photo caption: From the 1980s onwards, Guilford County has welcomed many hundreds of refugee Montagnard families. But their healthcare needs are a concern. UNCG’s Center for New North Carolinians, in collaboration with Guilford College and NC A&T State University, is helping address this problem through community-engaged research.
Article by Hope Voorhees
