Projects Report

This report shows the various collaborative projects between UNO and the community.

Engagement Type: Knowledge and Resource Sharing
Activity Type: Community-oriented lecture/event
Start Semester: Fall
Total UNO Students: 0
Start Academic Year: 2016-17
UNO Student Hours: 0
End Semester: Fall
Total K-12 Students: 0
End Academic Year: 2016-17
K-12 Student Hours: 0
Total Number of Other Participants: 0
Topics: Literacy, Capacity Building, Art

Description : For this project Miles Waggener organized a reading series at UNO's Criss Library. The event featured national and international authors and was open to students and the local community.
Engagement Type: Knowledge and Resource Sharing
Activity Type: Community-oriented lecture/event
Start Semester: Fall
Total UNO Students: 0
Start Academic Year: 2016-17
UNO Student Hours: 0
End Semester:
Total K-12 Students: 0
End Academic Year: None
K-12 Student Hours: 0
Total Number of Other Participants: 0
Topics: Literacy, Capacity Building, Art

Description : For this project Miles Waggener organizes a reading series featuring Creighton and UNO faculty.
Engagement Type: Knowledge and Resource Sharing
Activity Type: Community-oriented lecture/event
Start Semester: Fall
Total UNO Students: 0
Start Academic Year: 2016-17
UNO Student Hours: 0
End Semester: Fall
Total K-12 Students: 0
End Academic Year: 2016-17
K-12 Student Hours: 0
Total Number of Other Participants: 0
Topics: Literacy, Art

Description : For this project Miles Waggener gave a reading at the Northern Arizona book festival.
Engagement Type: Knowledge and Resource Sharing
Activity Type: Community-oriented lecture/event
Start Semester: Summer
Total UNO Students: 0
Start Academic Year: 2018-19
UNO Student Hours: 0
End Semester: Summer
Total K-12 Students: 0
End Academic Year: 2018-19
K-12 Student Hours: 0
Total Number of Other Participants: 80
Topics: Medical Humanities, Capacity Building, Poetry

Description : For this project Todd Robinson performed a short reading and emceed a poetry slam for 80 medical researchers who had participated in his creative writing workshop earlier in the day.
Engagement Type: Knowledge and Resource Sharing
Activity Type: Community-oriented lecture/event
Start Semester: Summer
Total UNO Students: 0
Start Academic Year: 2018-19
UNO Student Hours: 0
End Semester: Summer
Total K-12 Students: 0
End Academic Year: 2018-19
K-12 Student Hours: 0
Total Number of Other Participants: 100
Topics: Literacy, Capacity Building, Art

Description : With Writer's Workshop graduate (and current Arizona State MFA student) Maritza Estrada, Todd Robinson created (and emceed) a one-off reading at Kaneko Art Museum featuring the two of them and four other readers from the Omaha area. 100 people attended the two-hour event.
Engagement Type: Knowledge and Resource Sharing
Activity Type: Specialized service contract
Start Semester: Fall
Total UNO Students: 0
Start Academic Year: 2018-19
UNO Student Hours: 0
End Semester: Fall
Total K-12 Students: 0
End Academic Year: 2018-19
K-12 Student Hours: 0
Total Number of Other Participants: 0
Topics: Capacity Building, Art

Description : For this project Todd Robinson was invited by the trustees of Joslyn Castle to judge entrants in the "Edgar Allan Poe-try" contest and to emcee a reading held at the Castle.
Engagement Type: Knowledge and Resource Sharing
Activity Type: Workshop
Start Semester: Fall
Total UNO Students: 0
Start Academic Year: 2019-20
UNO Student Hours: 0
End Semester: Fall
Total K-12 Students: 0
End Academic Year: 2019-20
K-12 Student Hours: 0
Total Number of Other Participants: 0
Topics: Education, Veteran Support, Poetry

Description : For this project Todd Robinson led a writing workshop at the Willa Cather branch library for Nebraska Warrior Writers, an organization of military veterans, in which we read several poems about place before writing of our own roots.
Engagement Type: Community-Based Learning
Activity Type: Internship/Externship
Start Semester: Fall
Total UNO Students: 0
Start Academic Year: 2019-20
UNO Student Hours: 0
End Semester:
Total K-12 Students: 0
End Academic Year: None
K-12 Student Hours: 0
Total Number of Other Participants: 0
Topics: Capacity Building

Description : WhyArts teaching artists have a new tool at their disposal this fall - The WhyArts Story Bag.The bag is the outcome of research conducted this summer by WhyArts intern, who graduated from the University of Nebraska at Omaha (UNO) earlier this month with double master’s degrees in public administration/nonprofit management and fine arts" We have well tested and documented resources for programming in this area. Further development is needed which is planed for in the future. The story bags made several appearances out in the community especially in senior centers and early childhood environments. More development is planned and we expect the impact to grow. "https://www.whyartsinc.org/introducing-the-whyarts-story-bag/
Engagement Type: Knowledge and Resource Sharing
Activity Type: Specialized service contract
Start Semester: Fall
Total UNO Students: 0
Start Academic Year: 2019-20
UNO Student Hours: 0
End Semester: Fall
Total K-12 Students: 0
End Academic Year: 2019-20
K-12 Student Hours: 0
Total Number of Other Participants: 0
Topics: Literacy, Art

Description : For this project Todd Robinson served as emcee of the Omaha Lit Fest main event, a daylong festival featuring talks, readings, panels, and signings from a locally and nationally renowned stable of writers.
Engagement Type: Knowledge and Resource Sharing
Activity Type: Workshop
Start Semester: Summer
Total UNO Students: 0
Start Academic Year: 2018-19
UNO Student Hours: 0
End Semester: Summer
Total K-12 Students: 0
End Academic Year: 2018-19
K-12 Student Hours: 0
Total Number of Other Participants: 0
Topics: Education, Literacy, Art

Description : For this project Todd Robinson conducted a reading and several writing exercises with members of The Naturalist School at Waubonsie State Park in southwestern Iowa.
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