This post was written by Charlie Sun ’18 

I was asked to create a short video as an overview of the work that the Community Action Partnership in Madison County, NY does for marginalized populations in our county and beyond. This video will be used mainly for fundraising and for introducing CAP’s work to the general public.

Charlie Sun ’18 and Diane Ryan of Community Action Partnership

For CAP, I used selections of pictures, which are effective in presenting the main activities of CAP. I also include a background audio that will help the audience to better understand what CAP has done during the past few years. After gathering related information by interviewing CAP’s program directors and reading sufficient reports and paperwork, I interviewed three staff members who has worked at CAP for a very long time and has great stories to tell. I conduct three separate interviews with them and edited all the clips into one short film, which tells people how they feel about working in CAP and what they think people need to know about poverty in Madison County.

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Jerod Gibson-Faber, ’16, from Canastota, New York is majoring in history at Colgate, and working with the Oneida County Historical Society as a Field School Fellow. Each summer, the Historical Society invites a student to create an exhibit for the main hall, on a subject of his or her choosing that has relevance to the history of Utica and the surrounding area. As a soccer player, Jerod has chosen to create an exhibit about local sports and he is now three weeks in to the project and gathering information articles and artifacts for display. He has quickly discovered that there is a rich history in the region of a variety of sports, from baseball to basketball to soccer to the Olympics.

Jerod Gibson-Faber ’16 reviews artifacts for his upcoming exhibit on the history of sports in Oneida County.

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Nihar Shah ’16 of Nairobi, Kenya is quickly learning that Sculpture Space in Utica is a complex and creative place to work. Located in the center of Utica, Sculpture Space is a resource for sculptors from around the world that provides an opportunity for creative exploration, community collaboration and public engagement. The organization promotes interaction between visiting artists and the local community, and gives the public an opportunity to meet innovative artists and learn about contemporary sculpture.

Nihar Shah ’16 is experiencing art in action at Sculpture Space in Utica this summer.

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Katelyn Parker ’16 is putting her double major in environmental studies and geography into practice this summer as a Field School Fellow with the Lake Moraine Association. She is working on several projects that aim to limit the spread of Aquatic Invasive Species (AIS) into the lake, which is about three miles north of the Colgate University campus.

Katelyn Parker ’16 is working to keep Lake Moraine free of aquatic invasive species.

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Randy Fuller, Professor of Biology and Environmental Studies, has been named the Gretchen Hoadley Burke ’81 Endowed Chair in Regional Studies, for one year, beginning July 1, 2015.  Dr. Fuller has a PhD from the University of Toronto, and degrees from North Texas State University and Michigan State University. He teaches freshwater ecology, invertebrate zoology and environmental science at Colgate, and leads students out in the field in many of his courses to demonstrate how to quantify animal and plant communities.

As Burke Chair, Fuller is teaching an FSEM course on acid rain in the Adirondack Mountains and is giving four talks as part of the Environmental Studies Brown Bag series on campus. He organized a special session entitled: “Acid Deposition: 25 Years After The Clean Air Act Amendments” at the Society for Freshwater Science Meetings in Milwaukee, WI in May of 2015, and presented a paper entitled “Impacts of lime amendments on leaf decomposition and nutrient uptake dynamics in acid-stressed Adirondack Mountain streams” at the Acid Rain 2015 International Meetings held in Rochester, NY in October 2015.

This summer, two Colgate students worked with Fuller on leaf decomposition and nutrient uptake studies in Adirondack Mountain streams, and Fuller will be going to Sacramento, CA in May 2016 to attend the Society for Freshwater Science meetings and to present this research.

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Though the 2015 Summer Field School has just begun, On Tim Tang ’17 has already been working on her Summer Field School project for several weeks because she had previous experience in working with her community partner: the Legal Aid Society of Mid New York (LASMNY). In the spring semester, “OT” was involved in the Consumer Bankruptcy Law Project, a volunteer program in which students receive training on bankruptcy law and legal ethics, and then work under LASMNY supervision to prepare bankruptcy schedules for clients. These schedules are then used to recruit pro bono attorneys to represent the clients in bankruptcy court for free.

OT Tang and Susan Conn at the Utica office of the Legal Aid Society of Mid New York

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Three faculty-proposed research projects on the Upstate New York region will be funded by the Upstate Institute in the coming year.  These funded projects will promote community collaboration and civic engagement through the creation of knowledge and enhance community capacity throughout the region. Each year, the Upstate Institute chooses projects to fund in order to promote scholarly research that relates to the region’s social, economic, environmental, and cultural assets. Faculty receiving a research award share their research at the annual Upstate Institute Research Symposium.

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