CUNY Demography Fellowship Opportunity The CUNY Institute for Demographic Research (CIDR) awards Demography Fellowships to selected doctoral students (either domestic or foreign) at CUNY. The Fellowship provides full tuition (either in-state or out-of-state) and a stipend of $20,801 per year (with a step increase in out-years).1 It is expected that the student take the courses necessary to obtain a Certificate n Demography (three required courses – a survey course and two methods courses – and two electives), en route to the doctorate in your CUNY doctoral program, and select a demographically-oriented dissertation topic. The Demography Fellowship is a Grad A …
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12/1 #Colloquium: Prof #DavidGruber of @BaruchCollege on #Biofluorescence in #Sharks
Sara Perl Egendorf wins Best Graduate Student Presentation Award at the Annual Soil Science Society of America Conference
Congratulations to Sara Perl Egendorf, one of our finest graduate students (first year PhD student), for winning the Best Graduate Student Presentation Award at the Annual Soil Science Society of America Conference in Phoenix, AZ. Way to go, Sara! Sara Perl Egendorf, Earth and Environmental Sciences, CUNY Graduate Center, New York, NY, Zhongqi Cheng, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, NY and Anna Paltseva, Earth and Environmental sciences, CUNY Graduate Center, Brooklyn, NY Abstract: Urban gardening provides valuable benefits to participants and local residents, including access to healthy food, reduced reliance on food transportation and distribution systems, …
11/17: #Colloquium Come support your fellow students at #StudentResearchDay! @gcsciences @gc_cuny
11/10 Colloquium: #EmmaMullaney of @BucknellU on #Drones #Occupation & #AgriculturalMilitarization in the #ColonialPresent
Assistant Prof #job in #Environmental Studies and Science w/ @PaceUniversity
The Department of Environmental Studies and Science within the Dyson College of Arts and Sciences at Pace University invites applications for 1 to 2 anticipated tenure-track faculty position to begin September 2017. The Department is co-located on Pace University’s NYC and Westchester-Pleasantville campuses, and houses undergraduate and graduate programs in environmental studies, environmental science, and environmental policy. Departmental strengths include environmental policy and sustainable governance, ecology, and community engagement. We are expanding our expertise in sustainable urban infrastructure, citizen science, energy, and other environmental issues that integrate science, technology, policy, and community. The candidate will be a member of a …
Urban Soils Conference in Moscow: SUITMA 9 in May 2017
We are very pleased to invite you to participate in the 9th International Congress of the Working Group on Soils of Urban, Industrial, Traffic, Mining and Military Areas, SUITMA 9. SUITMA 9 will be held in Moscow, Russia on May 22-27 2017. The congress will be hosted by the Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University, www.rudn.ru). This year’s theme for the congress will be «Urbanization: a challenge and an opportunity for soil functions and ecosystem services» Urbanization is currently among the most important land-use change trends globally. According to FAO and UN predictions, more than 6 billion people are …
Prof. #SethaLow wins #SANA Prize for Distinguished Achievement
Professor Setha M. Low has won the 2016 SANA Prize for Distinguished Achievement in the Critical Study of North America, bestowed by the Society for the Anthropology of North America. The prestigious prize is awarded to a senior anthropologist for broad-based contributions to research, teaching, and service related to the development of critical studies of the United States, Canada, and Mexico. Low will receive the award at the American Anthropological Association in Minneapolis in November. In September, Low received the inaugural Senior Scholar Award from the Society of Urban, National and Transnational/Global Anthropology (SUNTA). A new edition of her book Spatializing Culture …
11/3 #Colloquium: #Decoding #Volcanoes using Glass w/ Prof #MarcAntoioneLongpre of @GC_CUNY @QCNEWS
New Course Offering: Hacking for Energy. Apply by 11/21 for Spring 2017.
Hacking for Energy is a new semester-long course designed to engage graduate-level students towards learning about and helping to solve real-world technological and business problems facing the energy industry, while also exposing them to the “Lean LaunchPad” approach to entrepreneurship. Based on Steve Blank’s Hacking for Defense class (recently taught at Stanford), Hacking for Energy features problem statements supplied by Industry Hosts for energy issues that need immediate solutions. Student teams will propose a solution to a problem statement and spend 13 weeks determining if it is viable using the Lean LaunchPad methodology for customer discovery. Hacking for Energy is taught at Columbia University but is also open …
