Spotlights

Partner Impact

Charles X White of Charity Productions

Community Partner, Charles X White of Charity Productions in Houston features in Scientific American, “Underserved Black communities are often depicted as dysfunctional Their resiliency has long been overlooked”, by Nancy Averett

“There is evidence that White’s [quarterly community breakfasts] are doing exactly what Kawachi and Berry say social capital does: bolstering people’s psyches Two months after Harvey hit, Garett Sansom, an associate professor at Texas A&M’s School of Public Health, came to a breakfast meeting to see whether he could gauge how a group of Houston’s low-income Black residents was faring after the storm. Sansom administered the 12item Short-Form Health Survey The survey almost always shows a correlation between physical and mental health scores if one is low, so is the other “But what we found was that in this group, even though they had greatly reduced physical health scores they actually had higher mental health scores,” [Sansom said] In other words, despite living in neighborhoods that suffered some of the worst impacts of the storm, they were less depressed, traumatized, and anxious than other people in the area.

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Dr. Galen Newman

TxTC Faculty Fellow, Dr Galen Newman, named Department Head of the Department of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning Over the last 5 years, working with TxTC on community-engaged projects:

$32,132,953 RESEARCH FUNDING 1 BOOK 20 PUBLICATIONS

Funding from: National Institutes of Health, National Institutes of Environmental Health Sciences, Environmental Protection Agency, Environmental Defense Fund, National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, National Science Foundation

Big Local Impacts

TAMU work in Galena Park for EPA helps city raise 3 million for improvements Manchester neighborhood in TX receives 10 Million in XQ grant after working with TAMU