Check your @GC_CUNY email on 10/25 to fill out a survey and enter to win $50 from @amazon!

The Provost’s Office is committed to gathering student opinions about their experiences at the Graduate Center and using that information for ongoing planning, so that we can do our best to help current and future students make the most out of their time at the GC. We need your help to ensure that doctoral students’ voices are heard. On October 25th, the Office of Institutional Research & Effectiveness will launch the 2016 Doctoral Student Experience Survey. The survey will be sent to all enrolled doctoral students via their GC email and will be open until November 18th. Students completing the survey will be eligible for a raffle for …

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#EESPublishes: @GC_CUNY @GCSciences student #CharutaKulkarni on #Vegetational #History of #Serbia

EES Student Charuta Kulkani (@ckulkarni) first authored a paper in Quaternary Science Reviews entitled ” Exploring the role of humans and climate over the Balkan landscape: 500 years of vegetational history of Serbia“.  Highlights of the article include; 1) The first Serbian palynological record of vegetation-landscape shifts from the Little Ice Age (LIA) to present. 2) Open landscapes with minor woodland and intense land erosion ensued during 1540–1720 CE due to human and climatic impacts. 3) Increased moisture availability in the late LIA (1720–1850 CE) is visible by increases in mesic and montane trees. 4) Increased forest cover with stable cultivation characterized …

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Tenure-track job, @SFSU, emphasis on international social movements and organizations

The Department of International Relations (IR) at San Francisco State University seeks a tenure-track Assistant Professor with research and teaching interests in international civil society, social movements, and organizations, including nongovernmental organizations (NGOs). The position starts fall semester 2017 and offers the opportunity to participate in a highly diverse, internationally focused campus community with strong student interest in social justice and human rights. The position requires graduate and undergraduate teaching in international relations or related global-studies topics (usually five courses per year), student mentoring and advising, an active scholarship program in one’s area of specialty, and ongoing committee and service …

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2017 Robert H. Zieger Prize for Southern Labor Studies Essay Contest. Due 10/15

The Southern Labor Studies Association is currently accepting submissions for the Robert H. Zieiger Prize for Southern Labor Studies. SLSA awards the Zieger Prize at the biennial Southern Labor Studies Conference for the best unpublished essay in southern labor studies written by a graduate student or early career scholar, journalist or activist. The Zieger Prize includes a $500 award. Deadline: October 15, 2016 For more information click here.

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Asst Proffesorship open in #Environmental and #PhysicalGeography @UTSA_DPSG

UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO Department of Political Science and Geography Position Announcement Assistant Professor, Environmental/Physical Geography The Department of Political Science and Geography at the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) invites applications for a tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant Professor in Environmental/ Physical Geography with an emphasis on sustainability, climate change, resource use, and/or environmental policy. This position supports a new emphasis within the Geography program on environmental sustainability. More broadly, the position contributes to UTSA’s goal of achieving research and teaching excellence in sustainable communities and critical infrastructure, focusing specifically on low impact …

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#EESPublishes: Prof #BlaszczakBoxe of @GC_CUNY & @BklynCollege411 on the #Polar #IodineParadox in @ELSenviron

Professor Christopher Shawn Blaszczak-Boxe of EES and Medgar Evers College coauthored a paper entitled “The Polar Iodine Paradox” in the Journal of Atmospheric Environment which explores the uneven presence of iodine in the polar regions as it relates to marine algae, ice, and the atmosphere. Click here to read the article!

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