Pedagogy in the Environmental Humanities Working Group

The Columbia Center for Science and Society will host a new working group on Pedagogy in the Environmental Humanities The group will meet monthly to facilitate dialogue among educators in the greater New York City area about teaching at the crossroads of environmental science and humanistic inquiry. The group will prepare a workbook of syllabi and host a symposium at the end of the 2015/2016 academic year to share research and experiences about instruction in this new interdisciplinary field. The first meeting will be held on Monday, September 28th, from 7-8:30 pm at Columbia University in Schermerhorn Hall 603 to …

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May 21st: Stuart Elden at the CPCP

Please join us for an informal seminar and discussion on Terrain, Territory and Volume with   Professor Stuart Elden Professor of Political Theory and Geography, Politics and International Studies, University of Warwick Monash Warwick Professor in the Faculty of Arts, Monash University Progressive Geographies blog Editor, Society and Space     May 21, 2015 from 4:15-6:15   In the Center for Place, Culture and Politics seminar room 6408   RSVP: slow@gc.cuny.edu, sbostrig@gmail or manissa@gmail.com

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Cholesterol and Glucose Testing Event at the GC

SAVE THE DATE! CHOLESTEROL & GLUCOSE TESTING EVENT Wednesday, March 25, 2015 10:00 am—2:00 pm CUNY Graduate Center Concourse Level Rooms C197/C198   Cholesterol and Glucose testing will be provided by Expert Diagnostic Imaging Inc. Nutrition information will also be available.   Services are FREE and open to all students, faculty, and staff!!   Sponsored by: The Wellness Center   For more information, contact the: Wellness Center Student Health Services 365 Fifth Ave, Room 6422 212-817-7028 heathed@gc.cuny.edu http://cuny.is/wellnesscenter Follow us on Twitter @cunyGCwellness

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

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

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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