USS Scholarships (Ernesto Malave Merit, Graduate Mentoring & Passantino) due 4/21

The University Student Senate (USS) is pleased to announce their Ernesto Malave Merit,  Donald and Mary Ellen Passantino, and Graduate Peer Mentoring Scholarships competition. One Ernesto Malave Merit Scholarship of $1500.00 will be awarded to a Graduate Center student in good academic standing with a 3.5 and above demonstrating outstanding academic and leadership performance under extraordinary circumstances. The Donald and Mary Ellen Passantino Awards are for Graduate Center students with a disability and / or international students that have at least a 2.5 GPA.  One Donald and Mary Ellen Passantino Award of $1000.00 shall be awarded to a student with …

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Now Hiring! Director for All-In Cities Initiative @Policylink

[www2.policylink.org] Job Announcement Director, All-In Cities Initiative (position located in Oakland, CA) 100% FTE Salary commensurate with experience This position, available immediately, is an exciting opportunity to join the staff at PolicyLink. PolicyLink is a national research and action institute that works to advance policies at the federal, state, and local level to achieve economic and social equity by Lifting Up What Works®. Please visit our website at: www.policylink.org. Position Overview We are seeking a dynamic leader to successfully implement the All-In Cities initiative (www.allincities.org), an effort to support cities in implementing new models of inclusive growth and development at …

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Dean K Harrison Awards

The Office of Educational Opportunity & Diversity (OEOD) is requesting nominations for its 1.  Dean K Harrison Research Fellowships (DUE BY 29 APRIL) Dean K Harrison Fellowships are one-year awards of $10,000 available to students who are Level 2 or higher. Nominated students must be US citizens or permanent residents rom underrepresented groups  Students are nominated by their doctoral program, therefore interested students should contact their advisor and EO to express interest. If you wish to be nominated, please submit your complete applications to (ckatz@gc.cuny.edu) by April 29 (please note this is during spring break) Applicants must be Level 2 …

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#EESpublishes Prof Bandosz on energy harvesting in #nanoporous #carbon

Professor Teresa Bandosz of City College coauthored a paper in Carbon on: Sulfur-mediated photochemical energy harvesting in nanoporous carbons Abstract This work provides new insights in the field of applied photochemistry based on semiconductor-free nanoporous carbons and its application to sunlight energy harvesting. Using carbon materials of increasing average pore size, chemical functionalization to introduce a variety of O- and S-containing functional groups and monochromatic light, we have shown the dependence of the photochemical conversion of phenol in the confinement of the carbons nanopore space with the wavelength of the irradiation source, the dimensions of the pore voids and their surface chemistry. …

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Virtual Special Issue on Geography of Food and Agriculture

This virtual special issue (VSI) on the “Geography of Food and Agriculture” may be of interest to some of you.  The articles for the VSI were curated and pulled from recent issues of a dozen Elsevier journals, including World Development, Food Policy, Geoforum, Applied Geography, Journal of Historical Geography, Cities, Habitat International, Land Use Policy, Journal of Environmental Psychology, Marine Policy, and Landscape and Urban Planning.  Geographers, and those employing geographic perspectives, are clearly making important contributions to our interdisciplinary understanding of food and agricultural issues. Please enjoy this treasure trove of recent geographical scholarship on this important topic! http://www.elsevier.com/social-sciences/geography-planning-and-development/the-geography-of-food-an-article-selection

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#CallforPapers: #Legacies of #BlackFeminisms @theAAG for #AAG2016 in #SanFran

Please respond by: October 26, 2015 to: latoya.eaves@gmail.com andpavithra@email.unc.edu This paper session invites a discussion concerning the legacies, trajectories, and possibilities of Black feminist intellectual and political traditions. Following challenges by women of color to mainstream white-dominated feminist projects that have allied (at times uncomfortably) with U.S. imperialism abroad, the prison-industrial complex domestically and other racialized projects, we centralize Black feminist frameworks in a multivalent, multiscalar resurgence of interest in Women of Color and transnational feminisms. Scholarly critiques of multiracialism and ‘people of color’ models of anti-racism (eg. Sexton 2008, 2010; Wilderson 2010; Vargas 2012) alongside a series of social and political movements articulating …

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10/15-WALK-IN FLU VACCINATION CLINIC FOR STUDENTS

Thursday October 15th     10am-1pm & 2-4pm The price of the vaccine is $11.00 Check or money order preferable (made payable to The Graduate Center). Cash also acceptable, but must be EXACT. If you do not have exact change, you may forfeit your place in line! You must have your student ID with the Fall 2015 validation sticker   All students are welcome. However, the priority for this clinic is for uninsured and underinsured students: If you are insured, please do not wait to get your flu vaccine. Most insurance plans (including NYSHIP) now cover the flu vaccine in full (free …

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THE ETHICAL AND ECOLOGICAL DYNAMICS OF INDIGENOUS RESILIENCE PLANNING

October 21st, 6:30-8:30pm, CUNY Graduate Center, Room C198 (Basement) RENEWING RELATIVES: INDIGENOUS RESILIENCE PLANNING -Kyle Pows Whyte, (Philosophy, Timnick Chair in the Humanities; Michigan State University) INDIGENOUS ECOLOGICAL PATTERNS OF LANDSCAPE RESILIENCE IN THE NEW YORK CITY REGION: PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE VISIONMAKING -Eric Sanderson (Wildlife Conservation Society; www.visionmaker.us/nyc) *Sponsored by the Earth and Environmental Sciences Department (CUNY GC), hosted by the Economic Democracy Project, and co-sponsored by the Science and Resilience Institute at Jamaica Bay (www.srijb.org) and Students for a Democratic alternative (SODA/CUNY). These two talks address the importance of indigenous perspectives in making rural and urban areas more ecologically sustainable and socially resilient.  Kyle …

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