Prof. Cary Karacas on NPR: “75 Years On, Remember Hiroshima And Nagasaki. But Remember Toyama Too”

  On the 75th anniversary of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings, EES faculty, Dr. Cary Karacas (CSI) and his colleague Dr. David Fedman, published an op-ed on the National Public Radio website, discussing their research and bilingual digital archive. “With the 75th anniversary of the atomic bombings upon us, we would do well to retrieve the burning of Toyama from the margins of public memory. For too long, scholarly predilections and public fascination with the atomic bomb have divorced the mushroom clouds from the firestorms that preceded them. Rather than a sideshow to the destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on …

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Prof. Ruth Wilson Gilmore in Prospect Magazine’s list of “The World’s Top 50 Thinkers”

EES faculty, Dr. Ruth Wilson Gilmore(GC) has been named to the list of “The World’s Top 50 Thinkers” by Prospect Magazine. As “Prospect” revisits the task of identifying the leading minds of the moment, in the intellectual hit parade which we have produced in varying formats since 2004, that test of immediate and real-world relevance looms large. As we compiled our long list—drawing on the advice of distinguished experts in various fields who have written for us over the years—and then whittled it down towards 50, we were struck by how different the list looked from 2019’s. It was at …

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EES Publishes: Dr.Dax Soule in Oceanography, “Project EDDIE: Using real data in science classrooms.”

EES faculty, Dr. Dax Soule (Queens) recently published a column in Oceanography: Soule, D. 2020. Project EDDIE: Using real data in science classrooms. Oceanography,33(2). “How does the earth speak to you? Or, perhaps even more importantly, how do you get the earth to speak to your students? As oceanographers, and more broadly as Earth scientists, we know that our planet has a fascinating story to tell, one that is full of an amazing array of interconnected facets. What language does it speak? How do we connect students to this story under normal educational circumstances? How about in the middle of …

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EES Alum Sam Stein will be the new Housing Policy Analyst at Community Service Society of New York

EES alum Dr. Sam Stein (advisor, Dr. Cindi Katz, GC) will be taking a position as the Housing Policy Analyst at the Community Service Society of New York, an organization that “draws on a 175-year history of excellence in addressing the root causes of economic disparity through research, advocacy, litigation, and innovative program models that strengthen and benefit all New Yorkers.” Learn more about the institution here.

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Dr. Kennet Flores Reyes to Receive Prestigious National Science Foundation grant.

Dr. Kennet Flores Reyes (Brooklyn) was awarded a National Science Foundation grant ($160,565) to support his research, “Mantle metasomatism during serpentinization in subduction zones: Insights from in-situ boron isotopes.” His award was featured alongside other NSF-winning CUNY colleagues in the CUNY Chancellor’s recent email newsletter. Read more about their work here.

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EES Faculty and Students Featured in “13 Scholars Shedding Light on The Roots of Racial Injustice” on the GC website

Three in the EES community were just featured on the Graduate Center’s recent homepage feature: “13 Scholars Shedding Light on the Roots of Racial Injustice” Dr. Setha Low, who has edited a new book, Spaces of Security: Ethnographies of Security-scapes, Surveillance, and Control. EES student Marlene Nava Ramos (advisor, Dr. Ruth Wilson Gilmore, GC),Rather than “criminalizing poverty,” Ramos wants New York City to eliminate its notorious Rikers Island prison complex and all of its jails. And Dr. Ruth Wilson Gilmore (Graduate Center) whose inspirational work has long advocated for abolishing prisons. Read more about their work here.

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EES publishes: Dr.Brian Brigham publishes study on Anthropogenic inputs from a coastal megacity’s link to greenhouse gas concentrations in the surrounding estuary

This paper by Brian Brigham and Dr. Jeffery Bird of CUNY EES. published in the journal /Limnology and Oceanography/is part of a set of three that has quantified the climate impact (i.e., greenhouse gas emissions) that come from combined sewage overflow dumped into the NYC Hudson River Estuary every year. This very important work quantitatively links the pollution from NYC to the enhanced greenhouse gas footprint of the Hudson River Estuary. The paper is also a deep dive into the existing literature on how coastal cities affect climate change. You can find the link to this article here. You can …

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CfP 2020 – 50th Urban Affairs Conference

  April 2-4, 2020 | Washington, DC USA | Renaissance Hotel Shaping the Future of Urban Research In April of 2020, UAA returns to Washington, D.C. to celebrate its 50th anniversary of annual meetings. The Opening Plenary of the 2020 conference will address the theme, “The State of Urban Affairs and the State of Urban Affairs Research.” This theme sets the stage for the overarching goals of the conference, which are: 1) to better understand our past, 2) to assess current realities, and 3) to create visions for the future that support a global urban research agenda.  The conference will provide opportunities to assess urban …

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CfP: Political Geography Specialty Group

Save the Date 33rd Annual PGSG Preconference— Boulder Colorado, 5 April 2020  Date & time: Sunday, 5 April 2020. Sessions will run from approximately 8 am – 6 pm. Location: Institute for Behavioral Science, University of Colorado Boulder. Abstract submission: A call for abstracts will be issued in fall 2019 detailing instructions for submission. Source: CfP: Political Geography Specialty Group

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