Announcements:

• A memorandum of understanding has been established for a collaborative agreement between the University of Maryland, College Park and the University of the West Indies. See a brief media release about this development here.

Ongoing:

• Prison to Community Reentry Ethnographic Research supported by the Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency (CSOSA) in Washington, DC.
• Continuing development of the CuSAG Student Support Fund.
• Development of the Cross-National Collaborative on Youth Health and Gender Issues between the University of Maryland and the University of the West Indies.
• Development of a University to Community Health Outreach Network in the Baltimore-Washington Urban Corridor.
• The development of neighborhood ethnographic data profiles for CuSAG field sites

CuSAG Supported Courses and Events:

• November 12, 2009 - Brown Bag Lunch/Speaker series on Applied Urban Ethnography and Community Health Sciences - Dr. Tony Whitehead will speak at the inaugural session. Find more details here.
• July 11 - August 10, 2009 (Summer Session 2): Summer Study Abroad Program - Jamaica Ethnographic Field School - ANTH498W/698W: Ethnographic Fieldwork: National Celebration and Identity, or ANTH498Z/689V: Internship/Ethnographic Assessment: Introduction to Youth Sexual and Reproductive Health Issues in Jamaica.
• Report from a May 1, 2009 Workshop on a Multi-Sectorial Approach to Prison- Community Reentry: Towards A University-Community Outreach Network