1. Melissa Kim receives National Council for Geographic Education award
2. GIS Educators Day registration ends tomorrow, Wed 9/30
3. Stephanie Fortunato Brown Bag Lunch at JNBC, Wed 9/30 noon
4. UTRA Info Session Thu, 10/1- 7pm Salomon 202
5. Prof Nitsan Chorev - ³Gates Governs The Global? On The Transformation of
International Health Politics², Tue 10/6 noon, Zimmer Lounge / Lower Maxcy
Hall
6. Taubman 25th Anniversary Th 10/8 (see below for specific events)
7. AS220: The Rise of Levittown film & discussion plus refreshments Wed,
10/28 5pm AS220 (220 Empire St., Providence)
IMPORTANT DATE: Tue, 10/6 5pm: Last day to add a course, change from Audit
to Credit, or change grade option
1. Congratulations to Melissa Kim for winning ³Best in Cartography² for
³Park Access in Northwest and Southeast Washington DC Based on Socioeconomic
Factors² at the National Council for Geographic Education conference, held
last week in San Juan, PR.
2. GIS EDUCATORS DAY Registration closes Wed, 9/30
On Sunday, October 4, the New England Regional Geography Alliances, the
Northeast Arc Users Group (NEARC), and ESRI will co-sponsor the second
annual GIS Educators Day in Nashua, New Hampshire. GIS Educators Day will
focus exclusively on topics and issues relevant to the educational
implementation of GIS and other geospatial technologies. The day will
include hands-on workshops with ArcGIS 9.3.1 and the new ArcGIS Explorer900,
presentations on successful projects from around the region, demonstration
of geospatial technology resources for educators, and many opportunities for
networking! GIS Educators Day offers a unique opportunity for educators
working in both the K-12 and Higher Ed environments to share skills, ideas,
and resources for the infusion of these powerful 21st Century tools in K-16
education. The event is a one-day preconference to the annual NEARC fall
users conference (October 4-7, 2009).
3. FROM THE JNBC: Stephanie Fortunato, Brown Bag Lunch
"Just a reminder that our own fabulous alumna, Stephanie Fortunato, special
projects manager for the City of Providence's Department of Art, Culture +
Tourism, will be joining us for a brown bag lunch this Wednesday, September
30, from noon-ish to one-ish in the seminar room on the second floor of the
JNBC (357 Benefit St, at the corner of Benefit & Williams).
Here's some additional information about Stephanie:
Stephanie Fortunato works for Mayor David N. Cicilline in Providence's
Department of Art, Culture + Tourism on the City's cultural policy. In this
capacity, she is overseeing implementation of the Creative Providence
cultural plan and related projects. Previously, she worked as a public
humanities consultant for arts and humanities organizations including the
Rhode Island Council for the Humanities and the Rhode Island Historical
Society. She co-directed the June 2007 Rhode Island StoryCorps residency.
Stephanie has been director of programs for a civic organization that serves
as a catalyst for economic development and a consultant for New York
City-based Jane Clark Chermayeff Associates LLC, a museum-consulting firm
specializing in family programming. Stephanie began her career on Long
Island, working for a regional arts council and curator of a local
historical society museum. She is on the Board of the Pawtucket Community
Development Corporation and volunteers with The Hive Archive. She received
her M.A. in public humanities from Brown University in 2008 and a B.A. in
humanities from Providence College in 1997.
For more information about the Creative Providence cultural plan, please
visit www.creativeprovidence.org.
By the way, Stephanie also contributed a great deal to the organization and
execution of the student project "Beyond the Birds and the Bees: Sex
Education in the 20th Century," so you might want to ask her questions about
that group's process."
Chelsea Shriver
Administrative Coordinator
John Nicholas Brown Center
4. FROM THE DOC: UTRA INFO SESSION 10/1
"As you might know, the Undergraduate Teaching and Research Awards program
funds collaborative research and curricular projects between students and
Brown faculty. UTRAs introduce undergraduates to the methods and rewards of
scholarly work. Faculty benefit from student innovations and input and are
able to further their own research and course development. As one faculty
member stated, ³UTRAs ... are evidence of Brown¹s commitment to
undergraduate education.²
Please help us to promote the following dates and deadlines among your
faculty and concentrators:
SPRING UTRA INFORMATION SESSION for students: this Thu Oct 1 at 7pm in
Salomon 202
SPRING UTRA ONLINE APPLICATION DEADLINE: Thu Nov 4 at 5pm (spring applicants
may be of any year)
SUMMER UTRA INFORMATION SESSION for students: Thu Nov 12 at 7pm in Salomon
001
SUMMER UTRA ONLINE APPLICATION DEADLINE: Wed Feb 10 at 5pm (summer
applicants must be first-years, sophomores, or juniors and may apply for
domestic or international UTRAs.)
We¹d also like to enlist your support in identifying faculty and
undergraduates with a genuine interest in collaborative research and
teaching in urban studies. UTRA applicants may apply to work one-on-one with
a faculty sponsor or in a team.
In addition to the general UTRA fund, there are special ³Named UTRAs² funded
by Brown donors. Applicants for UTRAs who fit the specified criteria will be
considered for these special funds. We hope that you will encourage
promising students who fit the criteria below to apply for an UTRA:
- Community-based teaching and/or research (Swearer Center UTRA)
- Environmental issues in Providence and greater Rhode Island
- Alternative energy sources from public policy, technological, research and
development, economic, and other approaches
- New media, including the study or production of computer-generated art,
digital film-making, digital music, hypertext literature, and other forms of
new and mixed electronic media
- Students concentrating in the humanities or social sciences interested and
interested in teaching professions
- Biomedical ethics, or research in public and community health
Thank you for your assistance in identifying promising students for these
exciting opportunities for discovery."
Besenia Rodriguez, Ph.D.
Associate Dean of the College
5. ³GATES GOVERNS THE GLOBAL? ON THE TRANSFORMATION OF INTER-NATIONAL HEALTH
POLITICS² - PROFESSOR NITSAN CHOREV, ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF SOCIOLOGY
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 6, 2009
ZIMMER LOUNGE&lsqauo;LOWER MAXCY HALL, 12 NOON
ABSTRACT
Global health policies and programs under the auspices of the World Health
Organization have radically changed between the 1970s and the 1990s. From an
organization that views global health as a universal human right and is
concerned with equity, it transformed into an organization that justifies
health as tool for development and focuses on efficiency and
cost-effectiveness. Calls for "Health for All" to be achieved by primary
health care have been replaced with calls for treatment of particular
diseases. Authority over programs has shifted from the World Health Assembly
to public-private partnerships. In this presentation I inquire into the
origins of the transformation and analyze the implications the case study
has for our understanding of the diffusion of neoliberalism and its
consequences at the international level.
6. FROM THE TAUBMAN CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICY & AMERICAN INSTITUTIONS:
Join the 25th Anniversary Celebration on Thursday, October 8
10:30 a.m. - noon (Crystal Room, Alumnae Hall)
Pushing the Research Frontier: Taubman Center Faculty and Public Policy
Research
2:30 - 4:00 p.m. (Crystal Room, Alumnae Hall)
Training a Generation, Shaping Public Policy: Reflections from Taubman
Center Alumni
6:00 p.m. (De Ciccio Auditorium)
Keynote "An Evening with Jeffrey Toobin"
Jeffrey Toobin is a CNN senior analyst, staff writer for The New Yorker, and
best-selling author.
More info: http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Taubman_Center/
7. FROM LEAH NAHMIAS: 1951 THE RISE OF LEVITTOWN
³I am currently volunteering with AS220 to develop audience for this
October's series of Action Speaks panel discussions. I don't know if you're
already familiar with Action Speaks, but it's an interdisciplinary panel
series that looks at "underappreciated dates" that have changed American
history. On Wednesday, October 28, a panel will be discussing the rise of
Levittown and the future (and sustainability) of the suburbs. It will be on
Wednesday, October 28th at 5 pm at AS220's performance/gallery space at 220
Empire Street in Providence. I thought this topic would be interest to
faculty and students in Brown's Urban Studies program.
As with other Action Speaks events, the event will be recorded and edited
for broadcast on WRNI and will be preceded by a film on RIPBS. The full
slate of film, panelists, and discussion questions can be found here:
http://www.actionspeaksradio.org/2009/10/1951---the-rise-of-levittown.html.
During the event, people can get drinks or food from Taqueria Pacifica.
Audience is absolutely critical as we encourage people to question and
challenge our panelists, to share their own expertise, and to meet other
like-minded folks in the Providence area. The quality of the discussion is
only as good as the quality of the audience. That's why we'd love to have as
many representatives of the urban studies program as possible. If you can
think of anyone that I should send a personal email to, or anywhere I can
drop off flyers, that'd be most welcome, too. Don't hesitate to reply back
with questions or suggestions."
Leah Nahmias
Brown University
Masters of Public Humanities, 2009
Action Speaks! http://www.actionspeaksradio.org/
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