Georgia Nell Nigro, associate professor of psychology at ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ College, has been named one of two 1998 recipients of the Maine Campus Compact (MCC) Faculty Service-Learning Award, one of the most prestigious awards for community service in the state of Maine.<\/p>\n
The awards were presented recently at the MCC annual conference in Portland. Joanne DeSanto Iennaco, a member of the nursing faculty at St. Joseph’s College, received the other award.<\/p>\n
“The award winners have shown initiative and creativity in service-learning and in advocating for service-learning on and off their campuses,” MCC director Liz McCabe Parks said.<\/p>\n
MCC is a coalition of colleges and universities established to encourage and enhance student participation in community and public service and to integrate community service as a valued learning element of undergraduate education. MCC fosters service-learning partnerships that build on strengths of communities and higher education institutions to address significant social and environmental problems.<\/p>\n
Shortly after Nigro arrived in Lewiston to teach at ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ in 1983, she began working with community practitioners and college students on community research projects related to her interests in child development. This work evolved into a course she now teaches at ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ on action research.<\/p>\n
Prior to the beginning of the course each year, Nigro convenes a workshop for community partners addressing the steps necessary to convert an idea into a research question. The students in her class work closely on these research questions with their community partners.<\/p>\n
Nigro has given talks on service-learning to faculty, college trustees and members of the community. She also has organized conferences on teacher research and serves on a national committee that makes recommendations on research in the service-learning field.<\/p>\n
A graduate of Brown University with a degree in linguistics, Nigro received an M.S. in psychology from Yale University and a Ph.D in psychology from Cornell University, where she was an instructor before coming to ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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