CORNELL PUBLIC SERVICE CENTER BOOTH AT BARTON HALL
Friday & Saturday
INTERNATIONAL SERVICE TRIPS – Libraries and Clean Water: Cornell Students Creating
Change in Honduras and Nicaragua
Breakfast and Lecture, Friday June 8th, 9 am-10:30 am, ILR CC229
Discover how Cornell faculty and students are contributing to communities on
a global level and how the experience affects all who participate. Hear firsthand
about engineering students in AguaClara who recently unveiled a new water plant
they designed in Ojojona, Honduras. Experience the trip of a lifetime for 16 students
who traveled to Nicaragua over winter break to build a library in the small town
of Ocotal. Presenters: Monroe Weber-Shirk, Lecturer in Civil and Environmental
Eng., 2007 Kaplan Family Distinguished Faculty Fellow, and leader of the international
service-learning project AguaClara in Honduras, a project in the Civil and Environmental
Eng. Dept. Kenneth Roberts, Professor of Government, and Faculty Fellows-In-Service
grantee, works in conjunction with the Cornell Public Service Center and Centro
de Idiomas/The Language Center, which is a cooperative exchange program for North
American and Nicaraguan participants to better understand their own membership
in a global community and then, as more conscious individuals, actively work as
heralds of social change.
Last year, more than 4,000 students participated in Cornell Public Service Center
programs, alumni hosted their first international Cornell Cares Day and faculty
were honored for integrating service into their curriculum. We hope you have
a chance to stop by and see all the great work being done by fellow Cornellians.
Hope to see you there!
Alum get together for Cornell Cares in Boston!
