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Kathy Kolasa: Farm2Clinic's Kids Culinary Camps offer engaging opportunity
(2026-04-15) Nixon, Ruckira L.; Kolasa, Kathryn M.
Abstract/Description: type in: This is a weekly Q and A newspaper column under the byline of Dr. Kathy Kolasa. Today's column is aims to highlight the role of East Carolina University's Farm2Clinic Initiative in programming nutrition education and community health through its 2026 Summer Kids Culinary Camps. This article describes how the program integrates hands on culinary interactions, food science, and health education to support skill development, healthy eating habits, and confidence amongst children ages 8-11. The article also emphasizes the broader impact of the initiative, including community outreach, improved food access, and efforts to advance health equity in rural and underserved populations of Eastern North Carolina.
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CREATING A FRAMEWORK FOR CHANGE IN PreK-12 CATHOLIC SCHOOL SYSTEMS
(2026) Bragg, Anna L.
This mixed-methods dissertation addresses the absence of a structured framework for system-level change in Catholic PreK-12 school systems, specifically examining the Diocese of Faith (pseudonym) which encompasses 28 schools serving 9,563 students across 13 counties in the southeastern United States. Using improvement science methodology with a parallel convergent design, the study administered the North Carolina Teacher Working Conditions Survey at three time points and conducted three focus group sessions with five elementary school principals between March and May 2025 to develop and refine a comprehensive framework for systematic organizational change. The research identified five bellwether indicators of organizational climate and revealed that faculty comfort with raising important issues scored lowest (less than 40% strong agreement), aligning with qualitative themes emphasizing the need for voice and participation, office of education visibility, and expanded data sources beyond climate surveys. The findings demonstrate that successful transitions from historically decentralized governance to coordinated system-level support require establishing central office visibility and role clarity before implementing change initiatives, incorporating multiple data sources including academic outcomes, and creating differentiated implementation strategies that honor the unique contexts within parochial governance structures. This study contributes to the limited body of research on Catholic school system-level change by providing empirical evidence that collaborative framework development with building leaders can bridge the historical tension between school autonomy and system coordination while advancing equity through structured stakeholder engagement.
Ardon, Marcelo
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WRP and MdB LUC output Geotiffs
(2025-05-23) Hamilton, Stuart; Presotto, Andrea
The output rasters for the WRP LUC analysi and the MdB LUC Analysis
Access status: Open Access ,
Search translations for a Scoping review on published literature on PFAS measures and Kidney Outcomes
(2026-03-12) Reis, Heidi
This is the full search strategy developed by librarian Heidi Reis in consult with Dr. Suzanne Lea, Dr. Qiao Wang and Molly Stanly for a scoping review on published literature on PFAS measures and kidney outcomes. The search was performed on 3/12/2025 in Medline (PubMed), embase (embase.com), scopus (elsevier), Agricultural and Environmental Science Collection (ProQuest).