Earlier this year, the Sorenson Impact Institute awarded seven recipients for its inaugural Social Impact in Education Faculty Small Grant Program. The grants were awarded in order to support faculty from across the University of Utah in integrating social impact concepts into their work. In October, the awardees were celebrated at a lunch hosted by the Sorenson Impact Institute, where they had an opportunity to share about their projects with SII team members and other grant recipients.
“We are so excited about the work [our grantees] are doing and so happy to play even a small, but helpful, role in moving that work forward by providing these grants,” said CEO Katie Macc. “Hopefully, this is the beginning of fun collaborations in research, projects, or work with students moving forward.”
Faculty grant recipients include Clara-Jane Blye, KangJae “Jerry” Lee and Dorothy (Dart) Schmalz (Department of Parks, Recreation & Tourism); Yihui Pan, Amelia Stillwell and Chong Shu (David Eccles School of Business); Colleen Farmer (School of Biological Sciences); and Alessandro Rigalon (Department of City & Metropolitan Planning).
Their research projects included moving from sustainable to regenerative tourism, understanding the health benefits of spending time in nature, creating educational materials on how people can influence social justice across sectors, improving research on women’s self-advocacy in the workplace and understanding how individual social, political or environmental preferences influence investment decisions and capital allocation.
Please join us in congratulating these recipients!
