Center for Environmental Studies Newsletter
Monday, October 20th, 2008
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CES News
- A note on the status of the UEL
- Fall 2008 Seminar Series: 2 in 1 week!
- CES noon seminar on TUESDAY this week
- Lois Gibbs, special guest lecturer, Thursday
On Campus
- Center for Statistical Sciences Seminar
- ECI’s Environment & Society Lecture
- Watson Lecture
Internships & Opportunities
- Landscape, Ecological, and Anthropogenic Processes
- 2009 Summer Ecosystem Experiences for Undergraduates (SEE-U) program
- Post-Bachelor Fellowship Program
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CES News________________________
Note from CES Interim Director: Status of the UEL
To the CES community,
I am happy to report to you that our scheduled move from the UEL to a temporary location at 2 Stimson over the winter break has been postponed. The current plan is for us to remain in the UEL until July 2009. This will allow us to be here to celebrate another graduation and to see at least the beginning of another growing season in the UEL community garden.
I will continue to update you as plans for the future evolve.
Phil
Phil Brown, Ph.D.
Professor of Sociology and Environmental Studies
Interim Director, Center for Environmental Studies
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CES Seminar Series Fall 2008
Tuesday, October 21st at noon in the UEL Classroom
“Urban Space Stations, Feral Robotic Dogs, and Tadpole Bureaucrats: Restructuring the Contemporary Environmental Movement”
Dr. Natalie Jeremijenko
Associate Professor in Art, Environmental Health Clinic, New York University
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Special Event:
Thursday, October 23rd at 7:00pm in MacMillan Hall 115
Lois Gibbs, Love Canal leader, Executive Director of the Center for Health, Environment, and Justice, and a major impetus to the modern environmental movement will talk about, "Love Canal ... 30 Years Later--What do we know, 'For Sure', and Where do we Go From Here"
Lois Gibbs has worked tirelessly for decades to help people all over the US respond to the crises of toxic contamination, and her Center for Health, Environment and Justice has assisted thousands of community organizations. She has been very active in bringing environmental justice concerns to the forefront of environmental activism. Lois is an eloquent and powerful speaker who always thrills her audiences. She is the recipient of many awards and the author of several books, including Dying from Dioxin: A Citizen's Guide to Reclaiming our Health and Rebuilding Democracy.
Sponsored by the Center for Environmental Studies, Brown Superfund Basic Research Program, and the Environmental Justice League of Rhode Island.
On Campus______________________
Center for Statistical Sciences Seminar
Monday, October 20th, 2008 at 3:30 pm
121 South Main Street, Providence, RI, Room 245
Refreshments beginning at 3:15pm
“Model-based Clustering of DNA Methylation Array Data: a Recursive-partitioning Algorithm for High-dimensional Data Arising as a Mixture of Beta Distributions”
E. Andres Houseman, ScD
Assistant Professor, Biostatistics
Center for Environmental Health and Technology
Brown University
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Environmental Change Initiative’s (ECI) Environment & Society Lecture
Thursday, October 23, 2008 at 6 p.m.
MacMillan Hall, Room 117
“Population and Environment in the Amazon Basin: Toward Integrative Land
Change Science”
Elilio Moran, Professor of Anthropology and Environmental Sciences, Indiana University, Director, Anthropological Center for Training and Research on Global Environmental Change, Co-Director, CIPEC, Center for the Study of Institutions, Population, and Environmental Change.
An anthropologist with a long-standing interest in the role of social factors in environmental change, Emilio Moran has been studying the people of the Amazon Basin since the late 70's. He now directs one of the premier training and research institutes for integrating social and environmental science and has written many books on the topic, including Human Adaptability: An Introduction to Ecological Anthropology and People and Nature: An Introduction to Human Ecological Relations.
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Lecture by the Watson Institute
And the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Tuesday, October 21st, 2008 at 6pm
McKinney Conference Room, Watson Institute
111 Thayer Street
“Autos and Progress: The Brazilian Search for Modernity”
Joel Wolfe, University of Massachusetts-Amherst
Internships & Opportunities_________
Landscape, Ecological, and Anthropogenic Processes
University of Illinois at Chicago
The LEAP program at the University of Illinois at Chicago is seeking outstanding doctoral students for fellowships. LEAP provides interdisciplinary training and research opportunities while focusing on improving the integration of human activities with those of native species, natural communities and ecosystems.
Additional information regarding LEAP is available at our web site: http://www.leap.uic.edu
Mary Wais
University of Illinois at Chicago
IGERT-LEAP Program
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2009 Summer Ecosystem Experiences for Undergraduates (SEE-U) program
Center for Environmental Research and Conservation (CERC)
Columbia University
The SEE-U program is designed to expose students to ecological fieldwork in unique and interesting natural settings. The "real-world" laboratories of tropical, temperate and endangered ecosystems allow for a first hand knowledge and understanding that could be elusive in the more "traditional classroom." The SEE-U faculty engages students to think about the broader implications of the experience to issues of biodiversity, climate change, and sustainability.
SEE-U is open to all students from across the nation and fellowship is available. All you have to do is fill out the fellowship section of the application.
Our application deadline for fellowship consideration is November 15th, 2008. Applications will be considered as they are received and there are a limited number of spaces available for our sites in Brazil, the Dominican Republic and Black Rock Forest, New York.
To apply, visit: http://redir.targetx.com/cgi-bin/email/redir.cgi?id=0000544826-75826860.
For more information on:
Curriculum: http://redir.targetx.com/cgi-bin/email/redir.cgi?id=0000544822-75826860
Brazil: http://redir.targetx.com/cgi-bin/email/redir.cgi?id=0000544821-75826860
Dominican Republic:
http://redir.targetx.com/cgi-bin/email/redir.cgi?id=0000544827-75826860
Desmond Beirne
Program Coordinator
Center for Environmental Research and Conservation
Schermerhorn Extension, Room 1007
Columbia University
Phone: 212-854-0149
E-Mail: djb2104@columbia.edu
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Post-Bachelor Fellowship Program
The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation
University of Washington
The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation is now accepting applications for the Post-Bachelor Fellowship Program for the Fall 2009 cohort.
The Post-Bachelor Fellowship (PBF) Program provides a unique opportunity for recent college graduates with strong quantitative skills to train with faculty and senior researchers on a variety of global heath projects. The PBF program combines advanced on-the-job training and mentoring, and provides the option of pursuing a fully funded Masters of Public Health (MPH). Through research, training workshops, coursework and field experience in developing countries, the PBF program aims to produce the next generation of scholars and leaders in global health measurement and evaluation.
The PBF Program involves a minimum of a two-year commitment commencing with training and orientation in early September. PBFs have the option of pursuing a fully funded MPH in Global Health, starting in the second year of the fellowship. Fellows receive a salary of $35,004 and are eligible for an insurance benefits package that includes a choice among several medical and dental insurance plans, life insurance, and long-term disability. There is no retirement package included with this appointment.
Please submit by January 15th, 2009:
Resume, official academic transcript, one letter of reference from a professor/professional familiar with your coursework or research, brief personal statement (500 word max.) on how your skills, experience and long term career goals contribute to your candidacy.
Mailed to:
Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation
University of Washington
Attn: PBF program
2301 5th Avenue, Suite 600
Seattle, WA 98121
Resumes and personal statements may be emailed to: pbfs@healthmetricsandevaluation.org
http://www.healthmetricsandevaluation.org/
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Please send questions, comments and stories to:
CES Newsletter Editor, Marie-Laure Couët
marie-laure_couet@brown.edu
Thanks!