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UAA Now Accepting Abstract/Proposal Submissions!

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UAA Now Accepting Abstract/Proposal Submissions! Submission Deadline: October 1, 2017 The Urban Affairs Association Online Abstract Submission System is open and we are accepting proposals for papers, posters, organized panels, organized colloquies, and breakfast roundtable discussions on a wide array of topics examining urban life, spaces, and policy issues. 2018 UAA General Call for Participation Additional Web-links: Deadlines Conference Policies Registration Submit a Proposal Questions? Visit our user-friendly Frequently Asked Questions search tool If questions remain, contact us at: conf@uaamail.org

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#ESSPublishes: Rethinking #Neoliberalism: Resisting the Disciplinary Regmine co-edited by Prof Pavlovskaya

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ESS Professor Marianna Pavlovskaya (@mpavlov) co-edited a new book entitled “Rethinking Neoliberalism: Resisting the Disciplinary Regime”. Neoliberalism remains a flashpoint for political contestation around the world. For decades now, neoliberalism has been in the process of becoming a globally ascendant default logic that prioritizes using economic rationality for all major decisions, in all sectors of society, at the collective level of state policymaking as well as the personal level of individual choice-making. Donald Trump’s recent presidential victory has been interpreted both as a repudiation and as a validation of neoliberalism’s hegemony. Rethinking Neoliberalism brings together theorists, social scientists, and public policy scholars to …

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#EESPublishes: EO Prof. Cindi Katz’s essay “A #Bronx Chronicle” available now! #spaces #places #power #culture #danger

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Check out Prof. Katz’s essay entitled “A Bronx Chronicle” published in Spaces of Danger: Culture and Power in the Everyday! Spaces of Danger contains 12 original essays by geographers and anthropologists offering a deep critical understanding of Allan Pred’s pathbreaking and eclectic cultural Marxist approach, with a focus on his concept of “situated ignorance”: the production and reproduction of power and inequality by regimes of truth through strategically deployed misinformation, diversions, and silences. Check it out!    

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Additional GIS classes available for the Fall!

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Lehman College Graduate-level courses for Fall 2017, appropriate for EES doctoral students:  GEP 606: Raster Analysis (3 credits, 4 hours) Focusing on the structure and the various ways in which raster data can created, modified, and analyzed using a Geographic Information System (GIS). Topics include surface analysis, multi-criteria/multi-objective evaluation, and map algebra. The course combines lectures with weekly laboratory exercises designed to apply the concepts from the lectures and to develop students’ expertise with GIS processing software.  Prerequisite: GEP 505 (an intro-level GIS course) or instructor’s permission.  Meets Mondays, from 6:00 – 9:30 PM, Prof. Machado   GEP 605 Environmental Analysis and Modeling …

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New course offering: Scholarly Communication with Public Audiences

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U ED 75100 — Scholarly Communication with Public Audiences, M 630 – 830, 3 Credits [36891]. Public scholarship translates research findings, policy analyses and theoretical perspectives into terms understandable to non-experts while maintaining content integrity.  This course will explore abounding opportunities and obligations for public scholarship while helping to improve  students’ ability to participate in multiple contexts including popularly-directed books, articles, op-eds and columns, print and broadcast interviews and press comments, expert testimony, and social media. Course work will emphasize student projects and workshop-style peer review. Contact  Christine Saieh, APO for more information Urban Education, Room 4202.04 Phone: 212-817-8282 http://www.gc.cuny.edu/Page-Elements/Academics-Research-Centers-Initiatives/Doctoral-Programs/Urban-Education

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#EESPublishes: Dr. Karimi’s dissertation on urban heat island impact on human health available on @CUNYWorks!

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Maryam Karimi‘s dissertation entitled “Impact of Urbanization on Temperature Variation in Big Cities: Measuring Health Risk While Targeting Vulnerable Population” is available on CUNY academic works!  Congratulations Dr. Karimi!   Dr. Karimi is continuing her work at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow.  Her research focuses on understanding the structure of cities and temperature variations caused by surface changes in urban areas. She is working on developing models to predict environmental risk and social vulnerability. In addition, she is focused on the identification of environmental risk and social vulnerability associated with UHI and air …

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#EESpublishes: Check out Dr. Stephanie DeVries dissertation on nitrogen pollution!

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Stephanie DeVries dissertation is available on CUNY academic works!  Congratulations Dr. DeVries! Following a comprehensive review of the occurrence and impacts of antibiotics and related pharmaceutical compounds on the terrestrial N-cycle, three experiments were performed to explore the topic of biogeochemistry as a source or a sink for N-pollution. The first of these experiments addresses the question of whether environmentally relevant concentrations of antibiotics (µg·kg-1) have a significant effect on denitrification or N2O production, a question that has not been well addressed in previous studies. Having determined that there is a significant shift, the second study aims to comprehensively follow changes …

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#EESpublishes: @GC_CUNY @CityCollegeNY Alumna Dr @mar_karimi & Prof #RezaKhanbilvardi on Surface T Variations in Urban Settings

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Dr. Karimi and Dr. Khanbilvardi coauthored a paper entitled Predicting surface temperature variation in urban settings using real-time weather forecasts in Urban Climate.  Highlight include: •Three months of field campaign data were collected to understand the inverse effect of UHI in Manhattan •Measuring spatial and temporal temperature variation within urban setting of Manhattan •Predicting temperature variability from weather forecast •The lapse rates being the common dependent for both spatial and temporal variations Within Manhattan Abstract: Densely populated cities experience adverse effects of Urban Heat Island (UHI) including higher numbers of emergency hospital admissions and heat related illnesses. Studying UHI effects and temperature …

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Check out @GC_CUNY Prof @dlindo_atichati’s research cruise w/ @csinews women #undergrads!

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  Three of EES Professor Lindo Atochati’s CSI undergraduate students are participating on a marine research expedition in the Caribbean that he organized with his collaborators from NOAA and NASA. That research project is important to understand the non-linear motions of seawater and nutrients near the shelf break, and at the same time is critical to manage two marine protected areas in the US Caribbean. One of the students is doing outreach and writing an impressive real time blog entitled Ocean Expedition to the Virgin Islands, Undergraduate Women rocking science! Check out the blog for updates and pictures:  https://morales63lm.wixsite.com/usvi

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#EESpublishes: Prof @MPavlovskaya of @gc_cuny @Hunter_College on #class in the Interntl Encyclopedia of #Geography

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Professor Marianna Pavlovskaya of EES and Hunter College authored a book section in The International Encyclopedia of Geography entitled “Class“. Abstract: Class is one of the most important, widely used, and complicated concepts in human geography and the social sciences. It underpins economic geographies and intersects with geographies of gender, race, and sexuality. Different notions of class have been in use, along the spectrum from neoclassical to Marxist economic theories. These theories have also been reworked by feminist, postcolonial, and poststructuralist scholars in order to augment critiques of class-related inequalities and to construct possibilities for imagining and producing progressive geographies …

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