Monday, December 3rd, 2007
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CES News
- Seminar Series – Scott Nixon
- Help Shape the Future of the UEL!
On Brown Campus
- CCURB @ Brown
- Living in the Mall
Off Campus
- Birds and New England Native People: The Traditional Relationship
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CES News________________________
CES Seminar Series – Fall 2007
Thursday, December 6th, 2007 at noon in MacMillan, room 115
Scott Nixon – University of Rhode Island
Impact of Changing Phenology on Benthic-Pelagic Coupling in Narragansett Bay
Scott Nixon's current research interests focus on productivity and biogeochemical cycling of coastal ecosystems, with emphasis on estuaries, lagoons, and wetlands. He also conducts ecosystem-level experiments using mesocosms and is interested in comparative and historical ecology.
Pizza will be served for $1.00/slice
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Shape the Future of the UEL!
Tuesday, December 4th, 2007 at noon in the UEL classroom
Talk with Brown University planners and decision-makers:
Pamela O'Neil
Associate Provost
Mike McCormick
Assistant Vice President of Planning, Design & Construction
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Community Carbon Use Reduction @ Brown (CCURB)
December 11th, 2007 at 4:00pm-5:30pm
MacMillan 115
Brown received a grant from the Frank Foundation to support staff, faculty and student projects focused on carbon reduction projects in our local community. The CCURB Committee is developing a pilot grant program, and is offering information sessions to provide an overview of the grant, its purpose, and guidelines and requirements for proposal submission.
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Living in the Mall
Monday, December 3rd, 2007 at 5:30pm
MacMillan room 117
In light of everyone going to the mall for Christmas gifts, Mike Townsend and his wife, both former RISD students, will speak about property rights, mall culture and life in their apartment. Mike was head of the eight or so artists that built an apartment in a vacant space above the Providence Mall. They lived there, off and on, for about four years before Mike was arrested in October.
Off Campus______________________
Birds and New England Native People: The Traditional Relationship
Wednesday, December 5th, 2007 at 7:30pm
Cherry Auditorium, Kirk Engineering Building
Upper College Road, URI, Kingston Campus
Shepard Krech III – Brown Prof. Anthropology & Environmental Studies
Birds are valuable to native peoples in many ways – material, cultural, spiritual. Ethnologist, environmental historian, and birdwatcher Shepard Krech explores the traditional significance of birds to native peoples in the eastern woodlands, with particular attention to New England.
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CES Newsletter Editor, Marie-Laure Couet
marie-laure_couet@brown.edu
Thanks!