Office of Community-Engaged Learning

A documentary that compares the sustainability of a vegetable-based diet and a meat-based diet. It follows a vegan student at Wesleyan University (Haley Sacks) and an omnivore student at Wesleyan University (Jake Barack) to gain insight into their perspectives on diet, sustainability, water consumption and virtual water. Interviews with Nunzio Corsino and Stephen LaPenta illuminate the water involved in producing food and Professor Suzanne O’Connell explains the concept of virtual water.

A documentary on the challenges vineyard owners must face in Connecticut and their subsequent path towards overcoming these obstacles. This documentary provides insight into the fastest growing agricultural sector in the state of Connecticut.

Growing flowers, vegetables and herds in greenhouses in Connecticut extends the growing season.

This film weighs the environmental ramifications of vegan and omnivore diets at Wesleyan, particularly with regard to their associated water use, and offers findings and solutions that promote a more sustainable water footprint.

This documentary follows the current, student run composting initiative at Wesleyan, and the obstacles the committee faces in terms of getting the administration involved and institutionalization. It is a brief history of the successes, failures, problems, and future of the composting committee, depicted with many officials involved with food and waste management on campus.

An informative documentary that pursues the water footprints of two Wesleyan students, a meat-eater and vegan; and explores the impacts of their diets on the greater issue of a growing world water crisis (along with the choices we can make to reduce the strain on virtual water through the food we eat).

A documentary on the challenges vineyard owners must face in Connecticut and their subsequent path towards overcoming these obstacles. This documentary provides insight into the fastest growing agricultural sector in the state of Connecticut.

A documentary focuses on the challenges vineyard owners must face in Connecticut and their subsequent path towards overcoming these obstacles. This documentary provides insight into the fastest growing agricultural sector in the state of Connecticut.

Growing flowers, vegetables and herds in greenhouses in Connecticut extends the growing season.

A look at three nurses’ choice to become involved in integrative care.

A look at the caregiving role of men in nursing.

A documentary on the integration of University of Maryland Nursing School in 1950 focusing on the stories of Esther McCready and Rosetta Sands.

A documentary on the perceptions of men in nursing.

A documentary on the importance of emotional support for Sharon Hines, an oncology nurse, in her struggle with stage four lung cancer.

A look into the changes in nursing education from the 1950s to the present

An investigation into relationships between nurses and patients.

A look at the importance of touch in healing and integrative medicine.

Three nurses discuss why they chose to become involved in integrative care.

Sharon Hines, an oncology nurse with stage four lung cancer, battles with her insurance company over payment for treatment.

A discussion on the usage and biology of yeasts featuring interviews with Mark Flory and Scott Holmes, Professors of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry.

A discussion on the research of private versus academic scientific research featuring interviews with Ishita Mukerji, Professor of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Maiko Kondo, MB&B undergraduate student, and Tim Connely, Medical Chemist at Bristol Myers.

An exploration of public perceptions of science featuring interviews with Ishita Mukerji, Professor of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Melissa Marcucci biology lecturer, and Kelly Knee, MB&B graduate student.

A discussion on the process and challenges of scientific research featuring Janice Naegele, Laura Grabel, and Gloster Aaron, Professors of Biology, and

A look at a scientist’s creation of art through science featuring interviews with Frank Stellabotte, biology graduate student and Best Dobbs-McAulffe, postdoctoral research associate.

A discussion on muscle development featuring interviews with Stephen Devoto, Professor of Biology, Best Dobbs-McAulffe, postdoctoral research associate, and Frank Stellabotte, graduate student.

A discussion on epigenetics, the study of changes in gene expression caused by mechanisms other than changes in the underlying DNA sequence, featuring interviews with Sonja Sultan, Professor of Biology and Scott Holmes, Professor of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry.

A look at the work of Frank Stellabotte, biology graduate student, and Stephen Devoto’s (Professor of Biology) lab studying embryonic muscle development.

A discussion on epilepsy featuring interviews with: Patrick Danis, Epilepsy Foundation of Connecticut, and Janice Naegele and Laura Grabel, Professors of Biology.

This documentary features marathon runner Dana Royer, Associate Professor in the Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences.  He and Douglas Charles, Professor of Archaeology and Anthropology discuss the endurance running from a biological and anthropological perspective.