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September 02, 2010
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NEWS
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Wednesday, July 22, 2009
Stockstrom to develop affordable housing
A project proposed by Frazee native Leah Stockstrom was chosen for an inaugural round of funding from the Jefferson Public Citizens program at the University of Virginia.
Stockstrom, daughter of Kelly and Jane Stockstrom, is a third-year student at University of Virginia majoring in foreign affairs and urban and environmental planning.
Stockstrom and four other students plan to develop a modular house for mass-production that is affordable and sustainable.
First- and second-year students take courses designed with a community service component and engage in other civic engagement activities at the university.
By their third year, they are ready to form a Jefferson Public Citizens group of their own, identify a faculty adviser and community partner, and launch their own community-based research and service project.
Third-year students applied for the group research awards in late March. Sixteen projects were chosen by a 16-member committee of faculty, students and administrators.
Student teams will now research problems, collect and analyze data, propose solutions and when appropriate, implement them.
Faculty and graduate students guide the student teams, which will discuss project results at an annual conference in the spring.
Info: www.virginia.edu/provost /public/jpc/index.html.
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