PROJECT HERE: Waverly/Shell Rock
Collaborating to Enhance School Meals
Faculty and staff in the School of Health and the CEEE are working together to consider how they can support Waverly schools meals.
Preserving Local Family Snapshots
Students and Faculty are scanning a collection of photos from Waverly Public Library that document Waverly and Shell Rock from the 1860s onward.
Reducing Children’s Exposure to Pesticides
Good Neighbor Iowa aims to reduce unnecessary urban pesticide use and to transform lawn culture to encourage appreciation of diverse lawns as a way to protect child health, water quality, pets, pollinators, and biodiversity. Good Neighbor Iowa is a state-wide public health initiative.
Creating Community-based Public Art Projects
Create public wheatpaste installations, produce postcards, stickers, calendars, vinyl installations, or books that connect community members with local history. Students utilized local newspaper stories to create spoken word compositions.
Improving Tree Canopy in Iowa Communities
Re-establish Neighborhood Trees through out the Cedar Valley Community. An effort currently occurring in Waterloo and expanding to Waverly/Shell Rock in the future.
Stimulating a Town’s Collective Memory
Mainstreet 360º prototype is being developed for UNI. Students utilized scanned photos from Waverly and gelocated and photomatched them.
Waverly-Shell Rock Cross-Collaborative