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RCP in the news roundup
Several publications recently featured the work RCP students have completed on our Carver County projects so far. The Star Tribune and Chaska Herald covered the Carver County Historical Society’s Andrew Peterson Farm project, while the Center for Transportation Studies' Catalyst took a look at the Chaska Safe Routes to School project. Professor Elizabeth Wilson made mention of the Carver County CDA’s Alternative Energy Development project on MPR News. Here are the highlights:
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Students recommend safe routes to school at Chaska intersection
Article originally published in the January 2016 issue of the University of Minnesota's Center for Transportation Studies' CTS Catalyst
As part of a U of M course last semester, students analyzed access to an elementary and middle school complex adjacent to a busy intersection in Chaska, Minnesota, and made recommendations aimed at helping local agencies improve pedestrian safety and access around the site.
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Rosemount Town Pages: City considers how to make the most of Resilient Communities Project results
By Jennifer Steichen, Rosemount Town Pages, January 14, 2016
Last year, the City of Rosemount partnered with the University of Minnesota’s Resilient Communities Project on a one-year undertaking in which students across various disciplines worked with city staff to identify 29 projects that would advance local sustainability and resilience in the community.
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What climate change goals set in Paris mean for Minnesota
Originally broadcast on Minnesota Public Radio News with Tom Weber, January 5, 2016
On a segment on renewable energy on MPR News, Tom Weber spoke with University of Minnesota Professor Elizabeth Wilson, who mentioned her Humphrey School class’ work investigating solar energy development in Carver County through the County's partnership with the Resilient Communities Project.
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Harvesting history: Plans take shape for famed farm
Article originally posted on the Chaska Herald website, January 7th, 2016, by Mark W. Olson
By Mark W. Olson
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Wrapping up the first semester of the RCP-Carver County partnership
With the end of the fall semester at the University of Minnesota upon us, the Resilient Communities Project is now halfway through our collaboration with Carver County. During the first semester of the partnership, RCP matched 20 projects proposed by Carver County and its partners with 25 classes across 14 departments and 7 colleges at the U of MN, and engaged approximately 200 students to work on these projects.
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Engaging mobile home communities in healthy living
By Bridget Roby
On the surface, Carver County’s got it all. It ranks first in health outcomes among all Minnesota counties, and scores above both state and national benchmarks on nearly all health measures. Yet despite its overall wealth and wellbeing, Carver County is also home to five mobile home parks, where median household incomes and other determinants of health are well below the county average. Could the health of the county as a whole be overshadowing real needs in these communities?
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Linking past to present through the Andrew Peterson Farmstead
By Maria Wardoku
From the road, the Andrew Peterson Farmstead looks like any other small farm you might expect to pass by in Carver County, with an old red barn and a few horses wandering the fields. But as students are discovering through the Resilient Communities Project, there is much, much more here than meets the eye. The story of the Peterson Farmstead stretches back 160 years, and in some ways, is only just beginning.
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ABC News/Sun Post: Brooklyn Park Selected for Resilient Communities Project
Originally published in the ABC News/Sun Post, November 16, 2015
The University of Minnesota's Resilient Communities Project has selected Brooklyn Park as its partner community for the 2016–2017 academic year.
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KSTP/Ch. 5 News: Brooklyn Park Named U of M 'Resilient Communities Project' Partner
By Jennie Lissarrague, broadcast on KSTP/Channel 5 News, November 12, 2015
The University of Minnesota is teaming up with the city of Brooklyn Park through a partnership with the Resilient Communities Project.
Each year, the university chooses a city or county partner, helps identify potential projects based on needs, and then matches those needs with U of M courses and graduate and professional students. Students earn credit for working on projects.
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Announcing RCP’s 2016–2017 Partnership with Brooklyn Park
By Maria Wardoku
Unique. United. Undiscovered? Not for long.
The Resilient Communities Project is excited to announce our partnership with Brooklyn Park for the 2016–2017 school year. RCP will match undergraduate and graduate courses across the University of Minnesota with the 19 potential projects that Brooklyn Park developed to advance its strategic goals.
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Embracing Diversity: Best Practices for Engaging Latino Residents in Carver County
By Bridget Roby
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Reimagining the River
By Maria Wardoku
Spring river flooding is something of an annual tradition in Minnesota. Lately those floods have happened more frequently, and been more severe, than in the past. While some towns are wringing their hands about ever worsening flooding, one small town of 4,000 people is finding the silver lining. The City of Watertown in Carver County is beginning to reimagine its relationship with the Crow River, which flows near the community’s downtown.
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Star Tribune: Waconia farm's history is focus of U project
U students will do restoration and other work on a Waconia farmstead that inspired a famed novelist.
By Beatrice Dupuy, Star Tribune, October 11, 2015
Andrew Peterson has stayed neutral through all the questions about the ownership of his historic farmstead in Waconia.
But then, he died in 1898.
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Catalyst: Program puts students to work finding transportation solutions
Originally published in the October 2015 issue of Catalyst, a publication of the Center for Transportation Studies at the University of Minnesota
Hundreds of U of M students will gain real-world experience while helping Carver County meet its sustainability goals under this year’s Resilient Communities Project (RCP).