CES Newsletter
October 25, 2010
CES News
• Casual Lunch Event Monday, October 25
• CES Lunch Seminar Thursday, October 28
On Campus
• Spring Geology Classes
Off Campus
• Northeast Recycling Council Fall Conference
Internships and Opportunities
• RI National Science Foundation Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research and Slater Technology 2010 Entrepreneurial Fellowship Program
• Twelfth Annual Graduate Symposium on Women’s and Gender History call for papers
• Oliver Hazard Perry Rhode Island Curriculum Coordinator/Educator position
CES News
CASUAL LUNCH EVENT MONDAY, OCTOBER 25
Mondays, Timmons Roberts and Caroline Karp are hosting a new weekly casual lunch event open to faculty, students, staff and community members. It's bring your own lunch and topics for discussion about environmental policy. The idea is to share information and perspectives; no expertise needed.
This week’s topic is climate change and the impact of the upcoming elections and prospects for environmental protection legislation in the US.
12:00-12:45pm
UEL Kitchen, 135 Angell Street
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On Campus
SPRING GEOLOGY CLASSES
GEOL 1580 is a lecture-based course and is recommended for engineering/science/math concentrators as it covers most relevant aspects of physical hydrology. Students get a pretty good idea of all aspects of hydrology with a sense of the relevance of vector PDEs and integral transforms.
GEOL 1590 is a directed-reading seminar-type course directed toward the more highly focused student interested in modeling groundwater flow. Weekly problems are based on the weeks reading and class discussions. This course also gets into PDEs and integral transforms, but the content is on the details of saturated flow modeling emphasizing analytical methods at the foundations of numerical procedures. This year we will be working our way through the final draft of my revisions to "A Mathematical Primer on Groundwater Flow", Prentice Hall 1998.
SPRING CES CLASSES
ENVS: 1720
Environmental Justice: The Science and Political Economy of Environmental Health and Justice
Mondays: 3:00 pm, UEL Classroom
Course Description:
In this course, Environmental Justice: the Science and Political Economy of Environmental Health and Justice, students will learn about the disproportionate burdens of environmental contamination and about the health disparities affecting communities of color across the US and internationally. Since the early 1990’s, an environmental justice movement in the US, led by many racially-diverse leaders, has achieved much progress in advocating for just forms of health research, improved environmental/health policies, and worker protections to remedy these harms of racial/cultural injustice. In this course, we will review environmental health/justice theories and perspectives as they bear on case studies of Black Americans, Hispanic Americans, Native Americans, indigenous groups and Asian-Americans and how they have organized to improve health and justice in their rural/urban neighborhoods, reservations and cities. We will review programs that have been organized to address childhood asthma reduction, lead poisoning prevention, waste recycling, clean-up and restoration of contaminated sites, sustainable/organic agriculture, clean energy programs and cancer and health disparities research. Students will be asked to critically examine these efforts and also explore unresolved, chronic problems with environmental injustices and health impacts.
Off Campus
NORTHEAST RECYCLING COUNCIL FALL CONFERENCE
November 3-4 in Northampton, MA
Topics for discussion include corporate responsibility, organics recycling and product stewardship programs. For more information, contact Mary Ann Remolador, NERC Assistant Director at maryann@nerc.org or 802.254.3636.
Internships and Opportunities
RI NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION EXPERIMENTAL PROGRAM TO STIMULATE COMPETITIVE RESEARCH AND SLATER TECHNOLOGY 2010 ENTREPRENEURIAL FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM
Applications are now being accepted for 2010-2011 fellowships. Six fellowships of $3,000 will be awarded. Students who are accepted will have the opportunity to work with various entrepreneurial ventures in the state; the focus for the coming year will be on Rhode Island’s tech transfer sector. More information is available at http://www.riepscor.org/Rhode_Island_NSF_EPSCoR/Undergraduate_Students.html
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TWELFTH ANNUAL GRADUATE SYMPOSIUM ON WOMEN’S AND GENDER HISTORY CALL FOR PAPERS
The Executive Committee of the Twelfth Annual Graduate Symposium on Women’s and Gender History at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is pleased to announce a call for papers. The Symposium, which is the capstone event of the History Department’s Women’s History month celebration, is scheduled for March 3-5, 2011. To celebrate and encourage further work in the field of women’s and gender history, we invite submissions from graduate students from any institution and discipline.
For more information, contact Programming Committee Chairs Lance Lubelski or Scott Harrison at gendersymp@gmail.com
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OLIVER HAZARD PERRY RHODE ISLAND CURRICULUM COORDINATOR/EDUCATION POSITION
Oliver Hazard Perry Rhode Island (OHPRI) seeks an individual with a strong background in experiential education, teaching, education at sea, curriculum and curriculum development, and in marketing academic programs to the greater community. Oliver Hazard Perry Rhode Island (www.ohpri.org) is a nonprofit organization working to
build a new three-masted sailing school ship to be based in Newport, R.I. This person will help to create shore-based and sea-going experiential and academic programs for the ship, working in partnership with K-12 educators, and will work closely with various
members of the Board of OHPRI. Application deadline is November 10, 2010. For more information, contact Perry Lewis, Board Vice Chair, at lewis@ohpri.org