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JPC Projects and Students Highlights

• Winner of the 2012 JPC Presentations Announced!

  The winner of the 3rd Annual JPC Presentation Competition is “Establishment of a Ceramic Water Filter Factory in Limpopo Province, South Africa” presented by Theresa Hackett and David Harsh.
  
  The Runner Up is “Community Water Assessment Based on Best Practice Models in San Lucas Toliman”
  
  The inaugural winner of the JPC Audience Choice presentation award is “The Art of Recapturing Lost Voices: Helping an NGO Find a Sustainable Way Forward”
  
  
• Congratulations to the JPC team Andi Maddox, Ashley Samay, Mandy Below, and Denny Staples! They have had their paper "From the Academy to the Municipality: The Equitable Exchange of Power, Resources, and Knowledge Engendered by Community-Centered Service and Civic Engagement" accepted for presentation at the Community-Campus Partnerships for Health 15th Anniversary Conference, April 18-21, 2012 in Houston, TX.
  
  
  

News Stories about JPC Students and Programs

• U.Va. Students Win SXSW Startup Competition with Mobile App for Student Safety
  March 20, 2012 | UVAToday
  The best protections against crime, universities generally advise their students, are to avoid walking alone at night, to look out for each other and to be aware of one's surroundings.
  
  
• U.Va. Students Receive Backing in Public Service Projects
  February 20, 2012 | UVAToday
  Helping residents of Southside Virginia lower their utility costs. Improving primary and preventative health care in St. Kitts. Assessing water health in Africa and Guatemala, vocational training in India, and "girlfighting" in Charlottesville city schools. Sustainable schoolyard gardening at Clark Elementary.
  
  
• University of Virginia's 'PureMadi' Brings Clean Water to Developing Countries
  February 9, 2012 — A ceramic water filtration device that looks like a clay flowerpot may someday play a large role in reducing waterborne infectious diseases in developing countries.
  
  
• UVa Students in Mongolia Try to Build Greenhouse Out of Soviet-Era Vodka Bottles
  November 30, 2011 – It is often said that one man’s trash is another man’s treasure. For a team of University of Virginia students and their Tibetan and Mongolian partners, discarded Soviet-era vodka bottles have become the beginnings of a greenhouse in central Asia.
  
  
• U.Va. Students Present First-Ever Survey Research on Charlottesville City Market
  November 15, 2011 — Roughly 5,500 people attend the Charlottesville City Market each week. Two-thirds of them drive to the market, while 20 percent walk. The most popular purchases are vegetables, fruits and prepared foods.
  
  
• Helping Haiti reCOVER
  November 11, 2011 – Anselmo G. Canfora was looking to engage architecture students in a timely and relevant design–build project when disaster struck — literally.
  
  
• Stakeholders Hash Out Future of City Market
  November 13 2011 – The future of downtown Charlottesville’s City Market is an unclear picture. Vendors from the April-November farmers market met with students from the University of Virginia’s Jefferson Public Citizens program, Market Central — a nonprofit made up of vendors and patrons of the market — and the public Sunday to discuss the gathering’s future.
  
  
• Good after the Last Drop
  October 26, 2011 —Stacking up vodka bottles is not usually an indicator of good lifestyle choices. That is until last summer, when a group of University students traveled to the Mongolian countryside to build a greenhouse out of the discarded glassware.
  
  
• U.Va. Class Project Leads to Hand-Built Mongolian Greenhouse
  October 19, 2011 — An assignment born in a University of Virginia classroom grew into an international development project this summer when an interdisciplinary group of students traveled to a former Soviet-era spa in rural Mongolia to build a greenhouse made mostly of discarded glass vodka bottles.
  
  
• Little Red Schoolhouse Opens an Online Campus
  September 20, 2011 — While it might sound like a kids' game, the Little Red Schoolhouse is actually the nickname for the writing curriculum used at the University of Virginia. The curriculum not only helps U.Va. students become better writers, it also helps prepare them for professional communications after they leave the Academical Village.
  
  
• Putting Ideas Into Action: Jefferson Public Citizens program gives students springboard for projects
  Fall 2011 | Virginia Magazine
  When Natalie Roper (Col ‘13) visited the Charlottesville City Market for the first time, she looked at the fresh produce with envy.
  
  
• Stephanie's Heroes: Building Glass Greenhouses in Mongolia
  August 15, 2011 What may look like garbage to some could have great potential for others. “We thought why don't we take the glass and use that as a construction material for greenhouses,” said project organizer David Martin.
  
  
• JPC Student Wins Sullivan Award
  May 19, 2011 — The recipients of the 2011 Algernon Sydney Sullivan Awards at the University of Virginia are Ishraga Eltahir and Ethan Heil, who will graduate this weekend, and Valerie H. Gregory, associate dean and director of outreach in the Office of Undergraduate Admission. They will be honored during Valedictory Exercises Saturday at 11 a.m. on the Lawn.
  
  
• JPC Students Win National Awards
  May 13, 2011 — The University of Virginia's class of 2011 has received many honors, scholarships, research grants and awards, and includes a Rhodes Scholar, a Udall Scholar, four winners of Davis Prizes for Peace and four Goldwater Scholars.
  
  
• Home Energy Education Project Wins Student Sustainability Competition
  April 22, 2010 — Top honors in the second annual University of Virginia Student Sustainability Project Competition went to a proposal to better educate local homeowners on saving energy.
  
  
• Project Assessing 'Grand-Aides' Health Care Initiative in Inner Mongolia Wins Top JPC Prize
  April 21, 2011 — The prize for the best Jefferson Public Citizen presentation has gone to a group of University of Virginia students whose project focused on improving health care in Inner Mongolia with the help of grand-aides, senior community members who receive medical training.
  
  
• Future by design Five Architects Who are Building Tomorrow
  April 5-11, 2011 Welcome to C-VILLE’s Design Annual, where each year we address the latest in local design. This year’s issue is a little different in that much that’s been designed here hasn’t, in fact, been built. Instead, we talked to outstanding students in UVA’s architecture school who are looking to solve today’s problems—from global warming to boring cities—with cutting-edge design solutions.
  
  
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Student Testimonials

"We have been able to participate in a one of a kind research experience and are excited to pursue many publication opportunities both in the United States and South Africa." JPC Group in South Africa

"A special word of appreciation from us (Venda partners) on the way you conducted yourselves working with other local students and community members. Overall, I thought you were able to seek and listen to local advise, adapt and adjust, with some level of sensitivity. These all are important indicators of good collaborative community work - never perfect, very intricate but worth doing and doing better the next other time!! " Community Partner in South Africa

"This summer has been the best of my life, and I owe it to JPC! Thanks for the help!" Daniel, JPC Group in Honduras

"The JPC program is a vital community outreach, because not only does it empower UVa students, but it also helps empower those without the voice to do it themselves." JPC Group in Nicaragua