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Meeting Schedule
Summary Report of Interdisciplinary Meetings
Wednesday, May 30, 12:00-1:30 pm: SB 340
Project Team Workshop and Brown-Bag Lunch: How do the problems we are studying impact the health and wellness of residents?
Possible sub-topics: environmental links; family structure; health and health care; violence; education
Discussion Leader: Antonino Scarpati
Wednesday, June 6, 12:00-1:30 pm: SB 340
Project Team Workshop and Brown-Bag Lunch: How are the problems we are studying affected by institutional and non-institutional actors?
Possible sub-topics: levels of government; activism; education; policy; business, government, and non-profit sectors; policing
Discussion Leader: Martin A. Bierbaum
Wednesday, June 13, 12:00-1:30 pm: SB 340
Project Team Workshop and Brown-Bag Lunch: How are the problems we are studying affected by land-use changes?
Possible sub-topics: gentrification; sustainability; transportation; built/natural environment; redevelopment; water quality; deindustrialization; restoration
Discussion Leader: Curt Elderkin
Wednesday, June 20, 12:00-1:30 pm: SB 340
Project Team Workshop and Brown-Bag Lunch: How are the problems we are studying affected by diversity?
Possible sub-topics: immigration; demographic change; economic class; segregation; racism; benefits of non-homogeneity
Discussion Leader: Rachel Adler
Wednesdsay, June 27, 12:00-1:30 pm: SB 340
Project Team Workshop and Brown-Bag Lunch: How are the problems we are studying affected by economic forces?
Possible sub-topics: deindustrialization; economic sectors; poverty – perceptions and definitions; unemployment; public assistance; education; job training
Discussion Leader: David Prensky
Tuesday, July 3, 12:00-1:30 pm: SB 340
Project Team Workshop and Brown-Bag Lunch: Where do we predict Trenton is going? How does it differ from what we think is best?
Possible sub-topics: self determination; revision; capacity; agency; organic vs. imposed change; alternate scenarios; role of academic research; sustainability
Discussion Leader: Elizabeth Borland
Wednesday, July 11, 2:00-5:00 pm: SB 323
Final Conference with Presentations
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