Monday, November 17th, 2008
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CES News
- Fall 2008 Seminar Series – SPECIAL LECTURE
- MORE Course Announcements: Spring 2009
On Campus
- “The Mysterious Buckyball Project: Fruit Flies on Nanoparticles”
- The Ethics of What We Eat: A Debate with PETA VP Bruce Friedrich
- 2008 Fall S4 colloquium
- Food and Climate Change Series
- SBRP Special Seminar: Laura Senier, Karen Wetterhan Award Recipient
Internships & Opportunities
- The Wilderness and Civilization Program
- Summary of Scholarships and Training Grants
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CES News________________________
CES Seminar Series Fall 2008 – SPECIAL LECTURE*
*Note date & time: Friday, November 21st, 4:00pm Smith-Buonanno 106
Reception to follow
Vivian Loftness, FAIA, Professor at Carnegie Mellon University, School of Architecture
“Green Buildings: Energy, Health, and our Quality of Life”
There’s no ‘I’ in ‘green’
Sustainability, green design, environmentally responsiveness, and energy efficiency are all part of a collaborative effort, maintains Loftness. The notion that one brilliant mind is going to make the next generation of buildings is no longer valid and raises the questions: How well are we working with allied organizations and fields? How can our own educational process engage us with our peer professionals so that we are all leaders of a collaborative team?”
Vivian Loftness is an internationally renowned researcher, author and educator with over thirty years of focus on environmental design and sustainability, advanced building systems and systems integration, climate and regionalism in architecture, as well as design for performance in the workplace of the future.
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MORE Course Announcements: Spring 2009 Semester
CES Professor Jeremy Rich is teaching at new course in the spring:
BIOL1460 "Microbial Diversity and the Environment"
Follow the link for more information:
http://envstudies.brown.edu/academics/course%20documents/BIOL1460flyer20
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Graduate Seminar on Population and Environment
Special Topics in Population (Sociology 2960L)
Leah VanWey
This course will serve as an introduction to human-environment science with a specific focus on research topics with a strong human population component. The overarching goal of the course will be to produce a cohort of graduate students comfortable speaking across disciplines, and able to identify interesting and tractable research questions about coupled human-natural systems. It is primarily intended to teach students how to talk and listen to each other, how to approach questions in an interdisciplinary and collaborative fashion, and what the state of the art is in population and environment research.
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“The Mysterious Buckyball Project: Fruit Flies on Nanoparticles”
David Rand, Professor of Biology at Brown University
Wednesday, November 19th, 2008 4:00 PM
Barus & Holley 190
Excitement about the tremendous potential of nanoparticles (NPs) in a wide array of technologies has been tempered by recent report of adverse health effect of NPs in a variety of different biological systems. Controversy over the nature of these concerns has grown as conflicting reports have described severe and nearly benign effects of different NPs in animals. Here we examine the effects of various NPs on Drosophila development time, viability, adult mortality and locomotor ability. These studies unveil the complexity of NP structure in determining the toxicity of any given NP. Our findings have important implications for the design and execution of toxicity assays as well as policy decisions about the regulation of NP applications.
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The Ethics of What We Eat: A Debate with PETA VP Bruce Friedrich
Thursday, November 20th at 4:00
Carmichael Auditorium
Bruce Friedrich is Vice President of Policy and Government Affairs for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA). He is one of the most influential animal advocates in the world, frequently debating major industries. He will begin by speaking about the consequences of our food choices, including the effects on the environment and on animals. Mr. Friedrich will then participate in a debate with Brown students.
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2008 Fall S4 colloquium
Friday, November 21st, at noon
PSTC Conference Room
Rich Felson, Sociology at Penn State University, will discuss
"Regional and Racial Differences in Violence"
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Food and Climate Change Series
Monday, November 24th, 2008 at 7:00pm
Salomon Center for Teaching, Room 001
The Food and Climate Change lecture series presents Anna Lappé, bestselling author. Lappé is known for her research and writing on food politics, globalization, and social change. Her first book, Hope's Edge: The Next Diet for a Small Planet (2002), co-authored with her mother Frances Moore Lappé, described social movements to end hunger throughout the developing world. Her second book, Grub: Ideas for an Urban Organic Kitchen, promotes the value of eating sustainable food and serves as practical guide for its preparation.
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SBRP Special Seminar: Laura Senier, Karen Wetterhan Award Recipient
Barus & Holley, Room 190
Monday, December 1st, 2008, 12:00 PM
In this special seminar, Laura Senier, the recipient of this year's Annual Karen Wetterhan Award, will present the talk she will be giving at the annual Superfund Basic Research Program Grantees' conference to be held December 7-9 2008, in Pacific Grove, CA. This award is conferred on the most outstanding among all the graduate research assistants in all Superfund Basic Research Programs throughout the US, and is a very exceptional honor. Please join us for this special seminar.
Public Schools and Contaminated Land in Rhode Island:
Using SBRP Research Translation and Community Outreach to Foster Research and Advocacy
Presented by Laura Senier, MPH MA, Brown University Department of Sociology and Social Sectors Development Strategies, Inc.
Many communities in Rhode Island are concerned about the sitting of public schools on or near contaminated land. There are no federal guidelines governing site selection for public schools, despite several high-profile cases of communities where schools were built on contaminated sites. Revised redevelopment guidelines were implemented in the fall of 2007, and our team will evaluate their impact.
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The Wilderness and Civilization Program
The Wilderness and Civilization Program is located in some of the wildest country in the lower forty-eight states. Based at the University of Montana in Missoula, we are surrounded by vast forests and grasslands and millions of acres of un-fragmented lands that support biodiversity and provide important wildlife habitat. This living classroom is integrated with on-campus studies at the University throughout the year.
The program offers students a minor in Wilderness Studies and is designed to complement any major. Many of the program courses meet general education and/or honors requirements. This is a great opportunity for students to blend interdisciplinary classes with regular field experience throughout Montana. Students learn firsthand how the ecology, politics, history and culture of a place interact and shape conservation efforts. The program is open to sophomores, juniors, and seniors of any major.
For more information visit www.cfc.umt.edu/wc or email wi@cfc.umt.edu.
The deadline for application to the 2009-2010 program is April 1st (early admissions applications are due February 15th).
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Summary of Scholarships and Training Grants
http://www.wdhof.org/scholarships/scholarships.shtml
The Women Divers Hall of Fame (tm) (WDHOF) is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization dedicated to honoring and raising awareness of the contributions of outstanding women divers. WDHOF provides educational, mentorship, financial, and career opportunities to the diving community throughout the world. Each year, WDHOF awards scholarships and training grants that provide financial and educational support to individuals of all ages, particularly those who are preparing for professional careers that involve scuba diving.
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