Fed Event: *EESG** 12/2 – Nutrient trading to improve water quality

EVERYONE IS WELCOME TO JOIN THE SEMINAR

**EESG** 12/2 – Nutrient trading to improve water quality

Environmental Policy Roundtable
Friday, December 2, 2011, Room 1113 Van Munching Hall, 12:15 - 1:30pm

Dr. Michelle Perez is a Senior Associate at the World Resources
Institute (WRI) where she serves on the Water Quality Team in the
People and Ecosystems Program. At WRI, Michelle leads the Mississippi
River Basin project to determine the economic and environmental
feasibility of nutrient trading to address hypoxia in the Gulf of
Mexico. Nutrient trading between sewage treatment plants and farmers
is being increasingly used as a key policy tool to improve the
cost-effectiveness of policies that cap pollution to specific water
bodies. Michelle’s presentation will highlight findings from WRI
analyses on the efforts to geographically prioritize conservation
funds and to allow trading to achieve clean water goals. She will also
address the many socio-political, technical, and economic barriers to
implementing trading.

Michelle also leads WRI’s Farm Bill project to improve the
environmental effectiveness of the federal conservation programs
through geographic targeting of financial assistance funds. Prior to
this position, Michelle served as Senior Analyst with the
Environmental Working Group and worked on international energy
efficiency issues in China, India, Mexico, and the Philippines for the
Alliance to Save Energy. In Spring 2010, Michelle received a doctorate
in environmental policy from the University of Maryland School of
Public Policy for her research comparing agricultural regulations in
Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia. Michelle has a Masters degree in
environmental policy from Maryland and an undergraduate degree in
biology from Occidental College.

We look forward to seeing you at our discussion!

For more information please contact the EESG Team:
policy.ecolecon@gmail.com

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http://www.publicpolicy.umd.edu/ecolecon

Federal Event: TODAY-Panel Event: "Humanitarian Crisis and Refugees in the Horn of Africa"

Please join us for what is sure to be an interesting panel event tomorrow evening!

“Humanitarian Crisis and Refugees in the Horn of Africa”
Tuesday, November 29, 6:30 PM
Riggs Alumni Center

A discussion with:

· Charity Tooze, Senior Communication Officer – The UN Refugee Agency

· Dr. Wanjiru Kamau, Founder & CEO – African Immigrant and Refugee Foundation

· Ahmed Elmi, Chairman – Somali American Community Association

REMINDER: Tuesday Policy Forum Featuring John Shea | “Is It 1937 Yet?: The Return of Deficit Orthodoxy ” | November 29

Is It 1937 Yet?: The Return of Deficit Orthodoxy
Tuesday Policy Forum

November 29, 2011
12:15-1:30 PM
1203 Van Munching Hall

John Shea
Associate Professor and
Director of Graduate Studies
Department of Economics
University of Maryland

John Shea, Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the UMD Department of Economics, recently returned to Maryland after serving at the Treasury Department as deputy assistant secretary for macroeconomics.

He received his PhD in economics from MIT in 1990, and joined the Maryland faculty in 1996. He teaches graduate and undergraduate macroeconomics. His research is empirically oriented, and is frequently concerned with overcoming identification problems such as simultaneity. His research has examined topics such as the short-run response of prices and quantities to demand shocks, the response of consumption to predictable movements in labor income, the impact of parental income on children's labor market success, and the short-run impact of technological change on industry activity. His current projects include a study of nominal illusion in major league baseball decision-making. Publications include "Do Supply Curves Slope Up?" Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1993; "Union Contracts and the Life Cycle-Permanent Income Hypothesis," American Economic Review, 1995; "Does Parents'Money Matter?" Journal of Public Economics, 1999; and "Complementaritiesand Comovements", Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, 2002.

Fed Event: CISSM Forum | December 1, 2011 | Nancy Hayden

"Understanding WMD Proliferation: Applying Complex Adaptive Systems Theory"

Nancy Hayden, Program Manager, Sandia National Laboratories

12:15 pm - 1:30 pm, 1203 Van Munching HallNancy Hayden is a program manager at Sandia National Laboratories, where she is responsible for support to the Counter WMD Analysis Cell, a fusion center within the Department of Defense. Hayden is an expert in strategic decision-making analysis for multi-dimensional international security environments. For more than 20 years, she has worked on a range of federal initiatives, including projects at the Department of Energy, Department of Defense, and Department of Homeland Security. Most recently she served as a senior fellow at the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA), working to develop a research program to understand and respond to threats from extremist organizations. She also served as a science advisor to DTRA’s Threat Reduction Advisory Panel on Intelligence. Hayden has an M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from University of California, Berkeley, and is working to complete her Ph.D in policy studies at the Maryland School of Public Policy.

The CISSM Forum is a weekly policy forum held on Thursdays, from 12:15 pm - 1:30 pm in room 1203 Van Munching Hall, College Park, Maryland. The CISSM Forum is supported by the Yamamoto-Scheffelin Endowment for Policy Research. For further information about the CISSM Forum contact cissm@umd.edu.

Upcoming Federal Foreign Policy Events in DC

Tuesday (29 November)



Instant City: Life and Death in Karachi

http://www.brookings.edu/events/2011/1129_instant_city.aspx



Westmoreland: The General Who Lost Vietnam

http://www.heritage.org/events/2011/11/westmoreland



Advancing the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: A US - Iran Dialogue on Law, Policy, and Advocacy

http://www.stimson.org/events/advancing-the-rights-of-persons-with-disabilities-a-us-iran-zdialogue-on-law-policy-and-advocacy/



Turkey after the Elections: What's Next?

http://www.elliottschool.org/events/calendar.cfm?fuseaction=ViewMonthDetail&yr=2011&mon=11#1710



The Al Qaeda Factor: Plots Against the West

http://events.georgetown.edu/events/index.cfm?Action=View&CalendarID=384&EventID=90009



Fair and Unfair Income Inequalities in Europe

http://events.georgetown.edu/events/index.cfm?Action=View&CalendarID=87&EventID=90633



Lepgold Lecture: Clash of Ideas and the Arab Spring

http://events.georgetown.edu/events/index.cfm?Action=View&CalendarID=242&EventID=89470



Christian Anti-Semitism: The Unfinished Reckoning

http://events.georgetown.edu/events/index.cfm?Action=View&CalendarID=349&EventID=88030



The Americas and the World: Public Opinion and Foreign Policy in Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, And Peru

http://www.wilsoncenter.org/event/the-americas-and-the-world-public-opinion-and-foreign-policy-brazil-colombia-ecuador-mexico



The Occupy Movement in Global Perspective—Citizen Protest from Wall Street to the Arab Uprisings

http://cgs.gmu.edu/events/eFlyerOWSNov29.pdf



Services Trade and Investment: Unlocking Growth, Recovery and Jobs

http://www.itcdc.com/trade.php?p=5#315



Partnering for the 21st Century—International Conference on Economics, Politics, and Security of China and the USA

http://www.publicpolicy.umd.edu/events/?view=list



Haiti: Reconstruction and the Role of Women

http://www.usip.org/events/haiti-reconstruction-and-the-role-women



Designing an Afghan Peace Process in Comparative Perspective

http://www.usip.org/events/designing-afghan-peace-process-in-comparative-perspective



The Transnational Politics of China’s Resource and Environment Needs
www.sais-jhu.edu/connect



Tunisia: From Dictatorship to Democratic Era
www.sais-jhu.edu/connect



The Cold War
www.sais-jhu.edu/connect





Wednesday (30 November)



Gender Equality and Development: Discussing the 2012 World Development Report

http://www.cgdev.org/content/calendar/detail/1425683/



America's Challenge: Engaging a Rising China in the Twenty-First Century

http://www.carnegieendowment.org/2011/11/30/america-s-challenge-engaging-rising-china-in-twenty-first-century/7g14



December 1941: 31 Days That Changed America and Saved the World

http://www.heritage.org/events/2011/11/december-1941



Intermarium: Post-Communism

http://www.iwp.edu/events/detail/intermarium-post-communism



Remembering Refugees: Stories from the 1947 Partition of India from Mumbai, and Beyond

http://www.elliottschool.org/events/calendar.cfm?fuseaction=ViewMonthDetail&yr=2011&mon=11#1715



IERES 50th Anniversary Discussion The EU at the Crossroads: Political and Economic Perspectives

http://www.elliottschool.org/events/calendar.cfm?fuseaction=ViewMonthDetail&yr=2011&mon=11#1696



Preserving Progress in Iraq, Part III: Iraq’s Police Development Program

http://www.internationalrelations.house.gov/hearing_notice.asp?id=1386



Compact of Free Association with the Republic of Palau: Assessing the 15-year Review

http://www.internationalrelations.house.gov/hearing_notice.asp?id=1385



The Bali Debrief: An Insider's Perspective of the November Summits

http://csis.org/event/bali-debrief-insiders-perspective-november-summits



Expulsion in Democracy: Rio de Janeiro

http://events.georgetown.edu/events/index.cfm?Action=View&CalendarID=43&EventID=90392



Islamic Pacifism: Global Muslims in the Post-Osama Era

http://events.georgetown.edu/events/index.cfm?Action=View&CalendarID=106&EventID=90496



Election and Government Turnover in Spain

http://events.georgetown.edu/events/index.cfm?Action=View&CalendarID=87&EventID=90583



Next Steps for the American Trade Agenda

http://www.uschamber.com/events/next-steps-american-trade-agenda



Our Own Worst Enemy? Institutional Interests and the Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons Expertise

http://www.american.edu/sis/calendar/index.cfm?id=3187258



U.S. - African Trade: AGOA 11 Years Out, 4 to Go

http://web.memberclicks.com/mc/community/eventdetails.do?eventId=331109&orgId=wdcsid&recurringId=0



Aiding Without Abetting: Making Civilian Assistance to Pakistan Work for Both Sides

http://www.wilsoncenter.org/event/aiding-without-abetting-making-civilian-assistance-to-pakistan-work-for-both-sides



Center for Complex Operations 7th International Lessons Learned Conference

http://www.ccoportal.org/event/2011/7th-international-lessons-learned-conference



I Assure You of Fresh Air: Incumbency, Choice and Cynicism in the Nigerian Elections of April 2011

www.sais-jhu.edu



International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) Latest Economic Outlook for the Central Asia-Caucasus and the Role of Wider Trade Relations

www.sais-jhu.edu





Thursday (01 December)



How to Create a Unique Online Communications Strategy: David Roodman and His Open Book Blog

http://www.cgdev.org/content/calendar/detail/1425689/



Prospects for U.S.-Australia-India Trilateral Cooperation

http://www.heritage.org/events/2011/12/trilateral-cooperation



16th Annual Pearl Harbor Day Dinner

http://www.iwp.edu/events/detail/16th-annual-pearl-harbor-day-dinner



Hidden Forms of Human Trafficking: A Critical, Gendered Discussion

http://www.ips-dc.org/events/hidden_forms_of_human_trafficking_a_critical_gendered_discussion



Democracy Held Hostage in Nicaragua: Part 1

http://www.internationalrelations.house.gov/hearing_notice.asp?id=1384



Cuba Off Terrorist List

http://press.org/events/cuba-terrorist-list



The U.S.-India Commercial Relationship: The Knowledge Economy

http://www.itcdc.com/trade.php?p=5#316



U.S. Strategic Objectives Towards Iran

http://foreign.senate.gov/hearings/hearing/?id=2abfe183-5056-a032-5265-161c863ea8ef



Rewiring the Diagram: Regional Conflict Management and Global Security

http://www.usip.org/events/rewiring-the-diagram-regional-conflict-management-and-global-security



Book Launch: "Politics, Identity, and Mexico's Indigenous Rights Movements" and "Popular Movements in Autocracies: Religion, Repression, and Indigenous Collective Action in Mexico"

http://www.wilsoncenter.org/event/book-launch-politics-identity-and-mexicos-indigenous-rights-movements-and-popular-movements



The Price of Freedom and Democracy: Defiant Bahrainis and the Arab Spring

http://www.wilsoncenter.org/event/the-price-freedom-and-democracy-defiant-bahrainis-and-the-arab-spring



Book Discussion: Showcasing the Great Experiment: Cultural Diplomacy and Western Visitors to the Soviet Union, 1921-1941

http://www.wilsoncenter.org/event/book-discussion-ishowcasing-the-great-experiment-cultural-diplomacy-and-western-visitors-to



Center for Complex Operations 7th International Lessons Learned Conference

http://www.ccoportal.org/event/2011/7th-international-lessons-learned-conference



The Global Financial Crisis and Reform of the International Financial Architecture: A Progress Report

www.sais-jhu.edu





Friday (02 December)



Japan and the Trans-Pacific Partnership

http://www.brookings.edu/events/2011/1202_transpacific_partnership.aspx



Egypt: Is There a Way Forward?

http://www.carnegieendowment.org/2011/12/02/egypt-is-there-way-forward/7nvt



Insights from Egypt's First Round of Voting

http://www.mei.edu/Events/Calendar/tabid/504/vw/3/ItemID/370/d/20111202/Default.aspx



Book Launch: Customary Justice and Rule of Law in War-Torn Societies

http://www.usip.org/events/book-launch-customary-justice-and-rule-law-in-war-torn-societies



Beyond Our Means: Why America Spends While the World Saves

http://www.wilsoncenter.org/event/beyond-our-means-why-america-spends-while-the-world-saves-0



Center for Complex Operations 7th International Lessons Learned Conference

http://www.ccoportal.org/event/2011/7th-international-lessons-learned-conference



Why a Europe Whole and Free Still Matters: A Central European Perspective

www.sais-jhu.edu

Fed Event:Tuesday Policy Forum Featuring John Shea | “Is It 1937 Yet?: The Return of Deficit Orthodoxy ” | November 29

Is It 1937 Yet?: The Return of Deficit Orthodoxy

Tuesday Policy Forum

November 29, 2011
12:15-1:30 PM
1203 Van Munching Hall

John Shea, Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the UMD Department of Economics, recently returned to Maryland after serving at the Treasury Department as deputy assistant secretary for macroeconomics.

He received his PhD in economics from MIT in 1990, and joined the Maryland faculty in 1996. He teaches graduate and undergraduate macroeconomics. His research is empirically oriented, and is frequently concerned with overcoming identification problems such as simultaneity. His research has examined topics such as the short-run response of prices and quantities to demand shocks, the response of consumption to predictable movements in labor income, the impact of parental income on children's labor market success, and the short-run impact of technological change on industry activity. His current projects include a study of nominal illusion in major league baseball decision-making. Publications include "Do Supply Curves Slope Up?" Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1993; "Union Contracts and the Life Cycle-Permanent Income Hypothesis," American Economic Review, 1995; "Does Parents'Money Matter?" Journal of Public Economics, 1999; and "Complementaritiesand Comovements", Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, 2002.

List of Upcoming Foreign Policy Events in DC

Monday (21 November)



A Bottom-Up View of the Continuing Conflict in South Kivu

http://csis.org/event/bottom-view-continuing-conflict-south-kivu



Russia's Public Chamber: Civil Society Representation and Public Policy Decision-Making

http://www.elliottschool.org/events/calendar.cfm?fuseaction=ViewMonthDetail&yr=2011&mon=11#1689



Defeating Authoritarian Leaders in Postcommunist Countries

http://www.elliottschool.org/events/calendar.cfm?fuseaction=ViewMonthDetail&yr=2011&mon=11#1693



China, Russia, and the Existing World Order: Seeking to Overthrow the Status Quo or Merely Pursuing Advantage within It?

http://www.elliottschool.org/events/calendar.cfm?fuseaction=ViewMonthDetail&yr=2011&mon=11#1702



The View from the Middle East: The 2011 Arab Public Opinion Poll

http://www.brookings.edu/events/2011/1121_arab_public_opinion.aspx



Food Policy in Disarray

http://www.ifpri.org/event/food-policy-disarray



A Foreign Affair: Fertility and Divorce Responses of Local Women Due to the Influx of Foreign Brides

http://www.publicpolicy.umd.edu/events/445



Book Discussion: Marooned in Moscow: The Story of an American Woman Imprisoned in Soviet Russia

http://www.wilsoncenter.org/event/book-discussion-imarooned-moscow-the-story-american-woman-imprisoned-soviet-russiai



Croatia's EU Accession and the Regional Approach to Enlargement

http://www.wilsoncenter.org/event/croatias-eu-accession-and-the-regional-approach-to-enlargement



The Unconquered: In Search of the Amazon’s Last Uncontacted Tribes

http://www.wilsoncenter.org/event/the-unconquered-search-the-amazon%E2%80%99s-last-uncontacted-tribes





Tuesday (22 November)



Time for Change: A New Transatlantic Approach for the Western Balkans

http://csis.org/event/time-change-new-transatlantic-approach-western-balkans



Scott Peterson—Let the Words Encircle Me

http://www.usna.edu/MiddleEast/



Iran and International Pressure: An Assessment of Multilateral Efforts to Impede Iran’s Nuclear Program

http://www.brookings.edu/events/2011/1122_iran_nuclear_program.aspx



Migrants in Multiethnic Slovakia: Contemporary Problems and Historical Roots

http://www.elliottschool.org/events/calendar.cfm?fuseaction=ViewMonthDetail&yr=2011&mon=11#1695



International Panel on Fissile Materials: Managing Spent Fuel from Nuclear Power Reactors: Experience and Lessons from Around the World

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l12RlWXLJxM&feature=bf_next&list=FLAYLUa3j79kUYAxhFtJHwAg&lf=mh_lolz



Republican Presidential Debate—National Security and Foreign Policy

http://www.aei.org/events/2011/11/22/republican-presidential-debate/



Author Event: The Unconquered: In Search of the Amazon's Last Uncontacted Tribes

http://www.ips-dc.org/events/author_event_the_unconquered_in_search_of_the_amazons_last_uncontacted_tribes



British Plans and Attempts at Subversion in Romania, 1939-44

http://www.wilsoncenter.org/event/british-plans-and-attempts-subversion-romania-1939-44

Fed Event: UMD Town Hall hosting Rep. Hoyer Nov 28

Monday, November 28, 2011
7:30 p.m.
The Atrium, Stamp Student Union
University of Maryland

The Center for American Politics and Citizenship, a research center through the Government and Politics department, is bringing the Honorable Steny Hoyer to campus Monday, November 28 at 7:30pm in the Atrium in Stamp. Representative Hoyer is the Democratic Whip in the US House of Representatives and his district encompasses most of the UMD community.

He'll be receiving the Tydings Award for Courage and Leadership in American Politics and a Town Hall style event on the economy and federal budget will follow so bring all your policy questions! The event is free but please RSVP to CAPC@umd.edu or 301.314.2736.

The Honorable Steny Hoyer
Democratic Whip, U.S. House of Representatives
Winner, Millard E. Tydings Award for Courage
and Leadership in American Politics

Fed Event: Nov. 18th, 12:15 PM

EVERYONE IS WELCOME TO JOIN THE SEMINAR

**EESG** 11/18 – Nuclear Power in the Post-Fukushima World - Richard C. Bell
Environmental Policy Roundtable

Friday, November 18, 2011, Room 1113 Van Munching Hall, 12:15 - 1:30pm

This week’s talk will focus on the post-Fukushima role of nuclear power in meeting world energy needs. Orders for new nuclear plants were picking up before Fukushima. But after the accident, German (world's 4th largest economy) has done an about-face and committed to phasing out nuclear. In Japan, the government fell over its handling of Fukushima, and the new administration has radically reduced the country's commitment to nuclear as the energy source of the future. Several recent reports from national and international energy agencies have found that with the proper government policies in place, renewable energy sources could completely replace nuclear and fossil fuels over the next decades while simultaneously reducing CO2 emissions.

Richard C. Bell is an author, editor, and political consultant who pioneered the use of online communications and social media in national electoral politics. He served as research director for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, new media director at the Democratic National Committee, vice president for communications at the Worldwatch Institute, and blogmaster for John Kerry’s presidential campaign. He lives in Washington, D.C. I am the co-author of a new e-book issued by Sierra Club Books, a 30th-anniversary updated edition of my 1982 book, Nukespeak, which won the 1982 National Council of Teachers of English George Orwell Award for Distinguished Contribution to Honesty and Clarity in Public Language. For more info on the e-book, see the press release from Sierra Club Books. There is also a Nukespeak web site.

We look forward to seeing you at our discussion!

For more information please contact the EESG Team:
policy.ecolecon@gmail.com

Fed Event Nov. 29th

Partnering for the 21st Century: International Conference on Economics, Politics, and Security of China and the USA | November 29th

Space is limited | RSVP to cpppeinfo@umd.edu or 301-405-8754

Tuesday, November 29, 2011 at 8:00 am - 4:30 pm, Samuel Riggs IV Alumni Center

International Conference on Economics, Politics, and Security of China and the USA
Hosted by the Maryland School of Public Policy Center for Public Policy and Private Enterprise

* Keynote Address by Frank Kramer, Former Assistant Secretary of Defense, International Security Affairs
* Co-sponsors: National University of Defense Technology in China and Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation, University of California San Diego
* Continental Breakfast 8:00 AM │ RECEPTION 5:00 PM (Rever Hall of Fame, Riggs Alumni Ctr)
* Samuel Riggs IV Alumni Center | University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742
* Space is limited. RSVP to cpppeinfo@umd.edu 301-405-8754 (Lunch will be served)

Fed Event: Voices of Social Change Presents: Triple Threats: Homelessness, Healthcare, and Oppression - Nov 16, 2011 at 5:30pm

Triple Threats: Homelessness, Healthcare, and Oppression
A Dialogue about Advocacy, Organizing, and Creating Change

Led by Adam Schneider from Healthcare for the Homeless

Wednesday, November 16, 2011
5:30pm – 7:00pm
Juan Ramón Jiménez Room, The Stamp

At least 3,000 people will experience homelessness on any given night in Baltimore – more than 30,000 over the course of a year. Statewide, more than 50,000 Marylanders are homeless annually.

The experience of homelessness causes health problems, exacerbates existing illnesses, and seriously complicates treatment. People who are homeless are sicker and die earlier than those who are housed. People experiencing homelessness are three-to-four times more likely to die prematurely than their housed counterparts.

What can be done?

Adam Schneider is Coordinator of Community Relations at Health Care for the Homeless (HCH) in Baltimore, where he works on state and local public policy and community initiatives related to issues of health and homelessness. Adam has been a lead organizer of several grassroots initiatives undertaken by people experiencing homelessness, and has worked as a case manager for people experiencing homelessness. Adam has developed and facilitated experiential community-learning initiatives in Baltimore and in Central Appalachia. In addition to his work at HCH, Adam teaches courses on philosophy, social theory and public policy at several area colleges and universities. He was arrested as part of the “Baucus 8” for disruption of Congress during the Senate Finance Committee’s hearings on health reform in May 2009.

Voices of Social Change invites you to join Adam in exploring the complexities of homeless, healthcare, policy, advocacy, and democracy in organizing.

Fed Event: *NEW SPEAKER | Tuesday Policy Forum Featuring Jennifer Cannistra | “Implementation of the Affordable Care Act” | November 15

Implementation of the Affordable Care Act Tuesday Policy Forum

November 15, 2011
12:15-1:30 PM
1203 Van Munching Hall

Jennifer Cannistra is Senior Advisor for Legal Affairs in the Office of Health Reform at the Department of Health and Human Services, where she works on implementation of the Affordable Care Act. Previously, she served as a policy analyst in the White House Office of Health Reform and for the Presidential Transition Team's health policy group. Ms. Cannistra has degrees from Princeton University, Oxford University, and Harvard Law School.

Fed Event: Nov. 17th, 7 PM

"Choosing Civility: The Twenty-five Rules of Considerate Conduct"

With P. M. Forni, Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University



Thursday, November 17, 7:00 p.m.

Prince Georges Room, Stamp Student Union



Dr. Forni's books, "Choosing Civility" and his latest one, "The Thinking Life" will be on sale at the time of the lecture.



Admission is free!



This event is co-sponsored by: CIVICUS, the BSOS Dean's Office, and the Baha'I Chair for World Peace.

Fed Event: Cybersecurity Seminars

Cybersecurity Seminars at UMD, November 17 and December 1

You are invited to attend the next Google and University of Maryland Cybersecurity Seminars, featuring Larry Cox of SAIC on Nov. 17 and Douglas Maughan of the Department of Homeland Security on Dec. 1. Both talks will be held at 5:30 p.m. in the Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building, Rm. 1110, on the University of Maryland's College Park campus. The events are free and open to the campus community and friends in industry, government and non-profit organizations. Registration is required.

Read More > https://mbanetworth.rhsmith.umd.edu/mbacop/articles.nsf/id/8nguas

Fed Event: Tuesday Policy Forum Featuring Chiquita Brooks-LaSure | “Implementation of the Affordable Care Act” | November 15

Implementation of the Affordable Care Act

Tuesday Policy Forum

November 15, 2011, 12:15-1:30 PM, 1203 Van Munching Hall

Chiquita Brooks-LaSure is the Director of Coverage Policy in the Office of Health Reform (OHR) at HHS. The HHS OHR provides leadership and coordination of the development of the Administration’s policy agenda across agencies for the Affordable Care Act. Within OHR, Chiquita is responsible for policies regarding consumer protection, exchanges and Medicaid coverage.

Prior to joining HHS, she was on the Democratic staff of the House Ways & Means Committee. There, she played an integral role in the passage of the new health care reform law, working on issues related to health care coverage, Medicare Advantage and
Part D.

Prior to joining the Committee, Chiquita was a Director at Avalere Health, a strategic advisory group that advises clients on health policy. From 1999 to 2003, she worked at the Office of Management and Budget where she advised OMB and White House policy officials on Medicaid and SCHIP waivers, the uninsured, and Medicaid reform. Chiquita received her AB from Princeton University and her MPP from Georgetown University.

Internship Hunt/Interview Drop-In Hours

Drop-In Help in your Internship Hunt!
3103 Susquehanna Hall

Thursday, Nov. 10: 2-3:30 p.m.

Friday, Nov. 11: 2-3 p.m.

Monday, Nov. 14: 3-5 p.m.

Tuesday, Nov. 15: 2-4 p.m.


Help on resumes, how to cold-call, how to interview, where to send!

Need cheer-leading? Advice? On anything at all!

Come! Cookies available too!



On hand to help:


Dr. Joan Burton

Megan Monserez

Amos Cruz (Tuesday)

Rebecca Schwartz (Friday)

Fed Event: Ecological Economics Student Group 11/11/11

EVERYONE IS WELCOME TO JOIN THE SEMINAR

**EESG** 11/11 – Salamander Conservation
Environmental Policy Roundtable

Friday, November 11, 2011, Room 1113 Van Munching Hall, 12:15 - 1:30pm

On November 11, 2011 the Ecological Economics Student Group will be
hosting Nick Caruso. Nick is a herpetologist who studies salamander
populations in the Appalachian and Smoky Mountains. These mountain
chains are home to the highest diversity of salamander species in the
world. The emerging infectious disease Chytridiomycosis is a leading
cause of worldwide amphibian declines and extinctions. Nick utilizes
historical data, intensive field work, and habitat modeling to
determine the state of salamander populations in the Eastern United
States. Nick’s work as a master’s student and as a full time field
technician is building a foundation for long term ecological studies
of salamanders. Join us Friday to hear about Nick’s current
investigations into the nature of these elusive animals and the
implications for future wildlife management.

Fed Event: Triple Threats: Homelessness, Healthcare, and Oppression

The Leadership & Community-Service unit in the Adele H. Stamp Student Union – Center for Campus Life regularly brings in speakers as part of our VOICES OF SOCIAL CHANGE series. Our goal is to invite engaging storytellers of social change to share their stories and dialogue with our students about important community issues.


We want to make sure that interested students hear about our program, so we look through Testudo to find classes that touch on the topics being visiting. We thought the students in your class this semester would be particularly interested in our upcoming program:


Triple Threats: Homelessness, Healthcare, and Oppression

A Dialogue about Advocacy, Organizing, and Creating Change

Wednesday, November 16th, 5:30-7:00pm, Juan Ramon Jimenez Room – The Stamp


We’d appreciate if you would forward this information to your students (see flyer pasted below and attached to this email). Some professors have also encouraged their students to attend by giving extra credit.

We know your students will find this program engaging and hope they can come! You are welcome, too!

Daniel Ostick


Daniel Ostick, PHD | Coordinator for Leadership Curriculum Development | Leadership & Community Service-Learning

Adele H. Stamp Student Union – Center for Campus Life | University of Maryland

0110 The Stamp; College Park, MD 20742 | 301.314.1347 | dostick@umd.edu

Fed Event: CISSM Forum | November 10, 2011 | Rear Admiral David W. Titley

"Climate Change, the Arctic,and National Security: A Navy Perspective"

Rear Admiral David W. Titley, Oceanographer and Navigator of the Navy, Director, Maritime Domain Awareness and Space

12:15 pm - 1:30 pm
1203 Van Munching Hall
College Park, MD

Titley - ResizedA native of Schenectady, N.Y., Rear Admiral Titley was commissioned through the Naval Reserve Officers Training Commissioning program in 1980. Titley served over 10 years at sea, including a tour as navigator aboard USS Farragut (DDG 37), and tours as oceanographer aboard USS Belleau Wood (LHA 3), USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70), Carrier Group Six and U.S. 7th Fleet. Shore tours include serving on the staff of the U.S. Commission on Ocean Policy and as the senior military assistant to the director of Net Assessment in the Office of the Secretary of Defense. Titley has commanded the Fleet Numerical Meteorological and Oceanographic Center in Monterey, and was the first commanding officer of the Naval Oceanography Operations Command. He served his initial flag tour as commander, Naval Meteorology and Oceanography Command. Education includes a B.S. in Meteorology from the Pennsylvania State University, a M.S. in Meteorology and Physical Oceanography and Ph.D. in Meteorology, both from the Naval Postgraduate School. He attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Seminar XXI on Foreign Politics, International Relations and National Interest, and is a fellow of the American Meteorological Society. In 2009, Titley assumed duties as Oceanographer and Navigator of the Navy and director, Task Force Climate Change. In 2011, he assumed responsibility for Navy Space and Maritime Domain Awareness.

Fed Events: START

Monday, Nov. 7

START’s Research Roundtable will feature Madiha Afzal, who will present on “Education and Public Opinion on Terrorism in Pakistan,” from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. Nov. 7 in Symons Hall Room 3121.



Friday, Nov. 11

START will bring internationally recognized terrorism scholar Erica Chenoweth to the University of Maryland to discuss the research in her new book, “Why Civil Resistance Works: The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict.” The START Seminar will be held from 2 to 3:30 p.m., Friday, Nov. 11 in the Margaret Brent Room 2112 in Stamp Student Union on campus.



**Please RSVP to Jessica Rivinius (rivinius@umd.edu) by Nov. 8 if you plan to attend.**



Thursday, Nov. 17

The Institute for Israel Studies at the University of Maryland is bringing to campus Samy Cohen to discuss Israel’s Asymetric Wars from 12:30 to 1:45 p.m. in Knight Hall Room 3202 (Gene Roberts Conference Room). Though this isn’t a START sponsored event, it aims to address “the Israeli strategy in the fight against terrorist acting under the guides of civilians or using the population as human shields.”



Monday, Dec. 5

START’s Research Roundtable will feature Nil Satana, who will present her latest research from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. Dec. 5 in Symons Hall Room 3121.

Fed Event, Nov. 8th, 7:15 PM

*UMD **AMSA* The American Medical Student Association

*General Body Meeting-Speaker Lee Wilson*

*WHEN*: Tuesday, 11/8/11, 7:15pm

*WHERE*: STAMP Banneker Rm

*WHAT*: Come out and hear Lee Wilson from the Department of Health and
Human Services talk about his experiences with writing regulation for the
health care reform bill. His focus will be on mental health but he‚ll also
address other aspects of the legislation.

Fed EventL Monday, Nov.7th, 4 PM

Arming Mother Nature:
HOW MODERN SCIENCE AND THE COLD WAR GAVE BIRTH TO CATASTROPHIC ENVIRONMENTALISM

Monday, November 07, 2011
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
2110 Taliaferro

A talk by Jacob Hamblin, Professor of History, Oregon State University with commentary by Professor Robert Friedel, Department of History, UMD. Paper available in advance on website: www.history.umd.edu/HistoryCenter/

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PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
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Mr. Gary Hirshberg
FOUNDER & CEO of STONYFIELD FARM presents:

· HOW TO MAKE MONEY AND SAVE THE WORLD


WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 9
4:30PM-5:30PM
0130 TYD

Since 1983, Gary has overseen Stonyfield’s phenomenal growth, from its infancy as a seven-cow organic farming school to its current $360 million in annual sales. Stonyfield has enjoyed a compounded annual growth rate of over 24% for more than 18 years, by consistently producing great-tasting products and using innovative marketing techniques that blend the company’s social, environmental and financial missions.

Please join us as we welcome Mr. Gary Hirshberg to our campus to speak about the successes, challenges, and lessons learned during his time as “Ce-Yo” of Stonyfield Farm, one of the world’s leading organic dairy producers. Stonyfield Farm strives to “prove that healthy profits and a healthy planet are not in conflict and that, in fact, dedication to health and sustainability enhances shareholder value.” EVENT IS FREE. NO TICKETS REQUIRED. See flyer attached!

Fed Event: Tuesday Policy Forum, Nov. 8th, 12:15 PM, 1203 VMH

Will Hispanics Decide the Next Election? The Growing Hispanic Vote
Tuesday Policy Forum

November 8, 2011, 12:15-1:30 PM, 1203 Van Munching Hall

Mark Hugo Lopez is Associate Director of the Pew Hispanic Center. Prior to joining the Center, Lopez was Research Director of the Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement (CIRCLE) as well as a Research Assistant Professor at the School of Public Policy at the University of Maryland. His areas of expertise include labor economics, civic engagement, voting behavior and the economics of education. He received his Ph.D. in economics from Princeton University.

Fed Event: **EESG** 11/4 – Market-based incentives for watersheds conservation in Bolivia

EVERYONE IS WELCOME TO JOIN THE SEMINAR

**EESG** 11/4 – Market-based incentives for watersheds conservation in Bolivia
Environmental Policy Roundtable

Friday, November 4, 2011, Room 1113 Van Munching Hall, 12:15 - 1:30pm

Dr. Jose-Luis Izursa will discuss payment for watershed services
(PWS), a tool used to create incentives that influence choices and
behaviors of upstream land (mainly forests) and water managers and
downstream water users. With the right ingredients, good design and
effective agreements, a payment scheme makes restoration or
maintenance of watershed services beneficial to all parties. The
benefits for watershed services that were formerly seen as ‘free’ –
and therefore usually overlooked in economic decision-making – can be
subjected to the inflexibilities of negotiation and contractual
agreement or other mechanisms of the market that are used to shape
decision-making over changes in land use and management that are
critical to the sustainable use of watersheds. Dr. Izursa will use
the case study of Los Negros, Bolivia to show how markets for
watershed services operate, and how the design of payment schemes most
likely led to the program’s success.

Jose-Luis Izursa was the Director of Science and Research at Bolivia’s
Fundación Natura where his work focused on the design, management, and
evaluation of biodiversity-conservation programs utilizing innovative
social markets techniques. Prior to taking on his current role, Dr.
Izursa was a program coordinator for Conservation International and a
consultant for the World Wildlife Fund. He received his Ph.D. in
Marine, Estuarine, and Environmental Sciences; his M.Sc. in
Sustainable Development and Conservation Biology from the University
of Maryland and has won a number of honors and awards including the
Fulbright Scholarship and the Russell E. Train Education For Nature
Fellowship.
We look forward to seeing you at our discussion!

For more information please contact the EESG Te

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Water is Rising Panel and Performance | November 3
12:15 - 1:30 PM Van Munching Hall Atrium

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