Author: Jessica Ty Miller

Today! GC Digital Fellows Introduction to WordPress and A Digital Academic Identity

by Jessica Ty Miller

This semester, the GC Digital Fellows are offering free workshops for all students and faculty. These workshops will go beyond introducing software and websites; we’ll be suggesting new, digital approaches to ongoing research problems. Please join us for the latest event of the Spring 2015 term: WordPress 1: Establishing A Digital Academic Identity Thursday, March 19th 2015 – 6:30-8:00pm; Room C196.02 In this workshop, you will learn more about developing and customizing your WordPress site. If you have some knowledge of WordPress (i.e., you can make a page and a post and have used the dashboard), but you want to …

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Spring Colloquium: Climate in Context Conference 3/13

by Jessica Ty Miller

The Climate in Context conference at the GC is coming up next Friday, the 13th (the preliminary program for which is attached ). The conference is meant to bring all CUNY climate scientists (both the physical and social sciences) together, to present research and to provide a forum to discuss new ideas. Sessions will include: Local Solutions: Education, Policy and Society. Global Science: Long-Term and Large Scale Analysis Local Science: Analysis of NYC in Relation to Climate Global Solutions: Harnessing Technology to Analyze Climate For further details, visit the website at http://opencuny.org/ccgcc/, and please come join us!  

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Postdoctoral Research Position at University of Oulu

by Jessica Ty Miller

Postdoctoral Researcher, Geography  The University of Oulu is an international scientific community, with 16 000 students and approximately 3 000 employees. The strenghts of the University are wide multidisciplinary study/research interests and modern research and study environment and good cooperation with international educational and research institutes. More information http://www.oulu.fi/english/ The following job is open in the University of Oulu: A two-year postdoctoral position is available in the RELATE Center of Excellence that operates at the Geography Department of Oulu University and Tampere University. This position is open at Oulu University. It is expected that the recruited researcher will contribute to the …

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CFP for GEOMED 2015 in Florence, Italy

by Jessica Ty Miller

The meeting will be held on September 10-12, 2015 in Florence, Italy. GEOMED 2015 is the IX international, interdisciplinary conference on spatial statistics, geographical epidemiology and the geographical aspects of public health. The conference brings together statisticians, geographers, epidemiologists, computer scientists, and public health professionals to discuss methods of spatial analysis, as well as present and debate the results of such analyses. The first GEOMED conference was held in Rostock (Germany) in 1997 and since then it has been held in Paris (France) in 1999 and 2001, Baltimore (USA) in 2003, Cambridge (UK) in 2005, Charleston (USA) in 2009, Victoria …

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March 3rd: Ruthie Gilmore on The Worrying State of the Anti-Prison Movement at CPCP

by Jessica Ty Miller

The Worrying State of the Anti-Prison Movement A presentation by Ruth Wilson Gilmore Director of the Center for Place, Culture, and Politics Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences at the Graduate Center, CUNY Tuesday, March 3 | 3-5 PM | Roosevelt House 47-49 E. 65t St. 2nd Floor  

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