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Dr. Cathy Jordan, pediatric neuropsychologist by training, is the Institute on the Environment's Associate Director for Leadership & Education and Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Minnesota and consulting Research Director for the Children & Nature Network, a national nonprofit. She is a current member, and former chair, of the Minnesota Children and Nature Connection. Her work focuses on promoting research endeavors to understand child health, learning and development through play in nature and nature-based education. She was the PI of a National Science Foundation grant titled “The Science of Nature-Based Learning Collaborative Research Network.” The Network convened two dozen members – academic researchers, educational practitioners, designers, teacher educators, philanthropists, and science communicators – in an intentional network to develop a research agenda and conduct collaborative research to advance the pace and quality of research aimed at understanding how, under what circumstances, in what settings, and for whom, nature contact influences children’s learning and educational outcomes.
Cathy also has a background in environmental health-related community-based participatory research and has worked for several decades on building the capacity of faculty, staff and students as well as community members to engage in respectful, power-sharing partnerships. She works with institutions around the country to help faculty succeed in promotion and tenure as community-engaged scholars and institutions to effectively recognize and reward community-engaged scholarship in career advancement policies and practices. In recognition of her work, she was inducted in 2014 as an inaugural member of the national Academy of Community Engagement Scholarship. She is the 2008 recipient of the Outstanding Partner in Engagement Award, the 2012 recipient of the President’s Outstanding Community Service Award, the 2018 recipient of the Department of Pediatrics Excellence in Child Health Award, and the 2018 Medical School recipient of the President's Outstanding Community-Engaged Scholar Award at the University of Minnesota. She currently serves on the boards of the Academy of Community Engagement Scholarship and the Mississippi Park Connection, and is the former chair of the board of Friends School of Minnesota.
Education/Academic qualification
PhD, Wayne State University
Award Date: Sep 4 1991
External Positions
Consulting Director of Research, CHILDREN AND NATURE NETWORK
Jan 1 2014 → …Research interests
- Community-engaged scholarship, community-engaged research, community-based participatory research, nature-based learning
- nature-based learning
- climate change
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Projects
Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Research Center
Sieving, R. E., Cohen, E. L., G., A., Gower, A. L., Jordan, C., McMorris, B. J., Oliphant, EdD, MPH, J. A., Shea, G. C. & Shlafer, R. J.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
9/30/19 → 9/29/24
Project: Research project
University of Minnesota Clinical and Translational Scien
Blazar, B. R., AbuSalah, A. M., Adam, T. J., Aliferis, MD, PhD, C., Allen, J., Beckman, K. B., Billings, J. L., Bloomfield, H. E., Bornsztein, B., Brearley, A. M., Call, K. T., Chi, C., Clancy, T. R., Connett, J. E., Daniels, B. S., Eder, M., El-Fakahany, E. E., Fischer, G., Fulkerson, J., Garwood, M., Georgopoulos, A. P., Guan, W., Henderson, J. N., Hodges, J. S., Ingbar, D. H., Jones-Webb, R. J., Jordan, C., Karypis, G., Knights, D., Kumar, V., LeBien, T. W., Lim, K. O., Ma, S., Melton-Meaux, G. B., Myers, C. L., Neuhauser, C., Oakes, M., Okuyemi, K., Pakhomov, S. V., Panoskaltsis-Mortari, A., Pieczkiewicz, D. S., Raymond, N. C., Riggs, S., Rudser, K., Ruggles, S., Schacker, T. W., Schleiss, M. R., Shekhar, S., Shen, S., Simon, G. J., Ugurbil, K., Vock, D. M., Volkov, B. B., Wang, J., Warren, J. R., Weber-Main, A. M., Weisdorf, D. J., Wolf, S. M., Zellmer-Bruhn, M. E. & Zhang, R.
NIH NAT'L CTR FOR ADVANCING TRAN SCIENCE
3/30/18 → 2/28/23
Project: Research project
Science of Nature-Based Learning Collaborative Research
National Science Foundation, CHILDREN AND NATURE NETWORK
9/15/15 → 12/31/19
Project: Research project
Research Output
A coordinated research agenda for nature-based learning
Jordan, C. & Chawla, L., Jan 1 2019, In : Frontiers in Psychology. 10, MAR, 766.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Open Access
Do experiences with nature promote learning? Converging evidence of a cause-and-effect relationship
Kuo, M., Barnes, M. & Jordan, C., Jan 1 2019, In : Frontiers in Psychology. 10, FEB, 305.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Open Access
10
Scopus
citations
Editorial: The natural world as a resource for learning and development: From schoolyards to wilderness
Kuo, M. & Jordan, C., Jan 1 2019, In : Frontiers in Psychology. 10, JULY, 1763.Research output: Contribution to journal › Editorial
Open Access
Connecting faculty development to community-engaged scholarship
Gelmon, S. B. & Jordan, C., 2018, Reconceptualizing Faculty Development in Service Learning and Community . Berkey, B., Eddins, E., Green, P. M. & Meixner, C. (eds.). Stylus PublishingResearch output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed)
Enhancing the Impact of Research: Experimenting with Network Leadership Strategies to Grow a Vibrant Nature-Based Learning Research Network
Jordan, C. M., Charles, C. & Cleary, A., Oct 16 2017, In : Interdisciplinary Journal of Partnership Studies. 4, 3, 6.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Open Access