Providing opportunities for community engagement and research is part of many environmental sciences and studies programs. Because of the constraints of the typical classroom environment, we need to develop innovative pedagogical tools to allow students to do this kind of work thoughtfully. A partnership between Duke University, a major private research university in Durham, NC, and Paul Quinn College, a small HBCU in Dallas, TX, allowed students to collaborate on community-based participatory research projects and a cross-campus semester-long immersive learning experience. This partnership was grounded in our experience in environmental leadership, social entrepreneurship, and ecological restoration and was led primarily by Duke faculty. We share valuable lessons about engaging in communities outside of our home institution and for working across campuses. Cross-campus collaboration, while logistically challenging, offers ways to connect students in different learning environments but with the same goals and passion for community engagement and research.

What is the Smile Revolution? The Smile Revolution is an oral health promotional entity that creates content to support dental professionals' advancement as well as producing content to support the public's oral health. What aspects of your career do you feel have contributed to the formation of the Smile Revolution? Since I qualified from the Eastman in 2003 I have always had an interest in being involved Dental therapist and reader panel member Victoria Wilson tells BDJ Team all about the 'Smile Revolution' and the lessons she learned setting up her own oral health promotional project.