Lead the Change: Be an Alternative Break Trip Leader
The Alternative Break program is looking for interested students to plan and lead next year’s alternative break trips. Every winter, spring and summer break, the program sends hundreds of students on service-learning trips across the nation and world to address some of today’s most pressing social, political and environmental challenges. The program’s main goal is to educate participants about the root causes of issues, while also making an immediate difference in the community.
Whether you’re interested in promoting student engagement around a particular issue such as disaster relief, HIV/AIDS, education, homelessness, health care and immigration, or looking to learn more about these issues yourself, being an Alternative Break Trip Leader will provide you with invaluable leadership experience. In addition to helping guide the direction of the AB program, trip leaders will also receive a 30% trip discount.
To submit an application or learn more about the Alternative Break Trip Leader position, visit www.thestamp.umd.edu/ab or attend an info session on April 13th @ 6pm in Crossland Room, Stamp Student Union
Applications are Due Monday, April 18th 2011 at 5:00pm.
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
Fed Event: April 7th @ 2pm in Banneker Rm (Stamp)
Héctor Tobar, Los Angeles Times Pulitzer Prize winner and author of The Tattooed Soldier, Translation Nation, and The Barbarian Nurseries (forthcoming 2011)
“Immigration, the American City and American Literature”
Thursday April 7th, 2011 2:00 P.M. - 3:30 P.M. Benjamin Banneker Room in the Stamp Union
Reception Following Talk. This presentation is free and open to the general public.
The talk will be in English. For more information, please contact Maria Vargas at mvargas5@umd.edu.
Sponsored by U.S. Latina/o Studies Program, AMST Department, and the School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
“Immigration, the American City and American Literature”
Thursday April 7th, 2011 2:00 P.M. - 3:30 P.M. Benjamin Banneker Room in the Stamp Union
Reception Following Talk. This presentation is free and open to the general public.
The talk will be in English. For more information, please contact Maria Vargas at mvargas5@umd.edu.
Sponsored by U.S. Latina/o Studies Program, AMST Department, and the School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
Fed Event: Harmful Algal Blooms: Players, Drivers, Impacts, and Solutions, 4/1 @ 12:15 in 1113 VMH
EVERYONE IS WELCOME TO JOIN THE SEMINAR
Environmental Policy Roundtable, Friday, April 1, 2011, Room 1113 Van Munching Hall, 12:15 - 1:30pm
Harmful Algal Blooms: Players, Drivers, Impacts, and Solutions
We will have Dr. Kevin Sellner, Executive Director of the Chesapeake Research Consortium, Visiting Professor, UMCES-UMD; UMD GEMSTONE Team BREATHE Mentor; Research Associate, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center. He will discuss his research on harmful algal blooms (HABs) and what we can do about them.
As Consortium Executive Director, Sellner’s primary role is to encourage active research programs across the six Consortium member institutions (www.chesapeake.org) and their extended partners from agencies, other institutions, and NGOs in the Chesapeake watershed focusing on fundamental basic and applied air, land, and water-related research to inform science-based management in the region. Dr. Sellner is also a plankton ecologist, with a primary focus on harmful algal blooms, examining fate and impacts of cyanobacteria and dinoflagellate bloom production in regional systems as well as waters of the Baltic and Peru. He has served on the National Harmful Algal Bloom Committee (NHC), was the initial program officer for the Federal interagency research program ECOHAB, co-written several national HAB reports, and has briefed Congress on these problem taxa. He also teaches a HAB course in the UMD Marine Estuarine Environmental Science program, is a co-mentor for a 4-year, 10 member honors student research team from the UMD GEMSTONE Program that has explored a field mitigation technology for reducing algal blooms in the watershed which has now been expanded into a NOAA-funded 3-yr research program.
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The Ecological Economics Student Group (EESG) is a student-organized forum for the presentation and discussion of ideas and new work within the broad domain of Ecological Economics and interdisciplinary environmental policy. This seminar is also offered for 1 credit as 'Ecological Economics and Development' (MEES 608N).
EESG is on facebook! http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=lf#!/group.php?gid=112404058770759&ref=ts
Apologies for cross-posting
Environmental Policy Roundtable, Friday, April 1, 2011, Room 1113 Van Munching Hall, 12:15 - 1:30pm
Harmful Algal Blooms: Players, Drivers, Impacts, and Solutions
We will have Dr. Kevin Sellner, Executive Director of the Chesapeake Research Consortium, Visiting Professor, UMCES-UMD; UMD GEMSTONE Team BREATHE Mentor; Research Associate, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center. He will discuss his research on harmful algal blooms (HABs) and what we can do about them.
As Consortium Executive Director, Sellner’s primary role is to encourage active research programs across the six Consortium member institutions (www.chesapeake.org) and their extended partners from agencies, other institutions, and NGOs in the Chesapeake watershed focusing on fundamental basic and applied air, land, and water-related research to inform science-based management in the region. Dr. Sellner is also a plankton ecologist, with a primary focus on harmful algal blooms, examining fate and impacts of cyanobacteria and dinoflagellate bloom production in regional systems as well as waters of the Baltic and Peru. He has served on the National Harmful Algal Bloom Committee (NHC), was the initial program officer for the Federal interagency research program ECOHAB, co-written several national HAB reports, and has briefed Congress on these problem taxa. He also teaches a HAB course in the UMD Marine Estuarine Environmental Science program, is a co-mentor for a 4-year, 10 member honors student research team from the UMD GEMSTONE Program that has explored a field mitigation technology for reducing algal blooms in the watershed which has now been expanded into a NOAA-funded 3-yr research program.
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The Ecological Economics Student Group (EESG) is a student-organized forum for the presentation and discussion of ideas and new work within the broad domain of Ecological Economics and interdisciplinary environmental policy. This seminar is also offered for 1 credit as 'Ecological Economics and Development' (MEES 608N).
EESG is on facebook! http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=lf#!/group.php?gid=112404058770759&ref=ts
Apologies for cross-posting
Fed Event: TODAYJapan's Nuclear Crisis and U.S. Energy Policy - Wed, March 30 @ 5pm -- McKeldin Library
Wednesday, March 30, at 5:00 PM in the Special Events Room (6137) of McKeldin Library
Japan’s Nuclear Crisis: What happened? Is the U.S. at risk? How will this affect U.S. energy policy?
Join in a conversation about the events unfolding at Japan’s Fukushima-
Dai-ichi nuclear reactor complex with faculty experts from across campus
Moderated by:
Prof. Carol Rogers
Philip Merrill College of Journalism
Prof. Bill Dorland
Physics & Honors College
Prof. Nate Hultman
Public Policy
Prof. Donald Milton
Maryland Institute for Applied Environmental Health
Prof. Mohamad Al-Sheikhly
Engineering
Prof. John Steinbruner
Public Policy
Dr. Stehr
Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
Japan’s Nuclear Crisis: What happened? Is the U.S. at risk? How will this affect U.S. energy policy?
Join in a conversation about the events unfolding at Japan’s Fukushima-
Dai-ichi nuclear reactor complex with faculty experts from across campus
Moderated by:
Prof. Carol Rogers
Philip Merrill College of Journalism
Prof. Bill Dorland
Physics & Honors College
Prof. Nate Hultman
Public Policy
Prof. Donald Milton
Maryland Institute for Applied Environmental Health
Prof. Mohamad Al-Sheikhly
Engineering
Prof. John Steinbruner
Public Policy
Dr. Stehr
Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
Fed Event: CBO Director Doug Elmendorf, April 13th
* RSVP TO MSPP@UMD.EDU *
Stern Professorship Hosts CBO Director Doug Elmendorf, April 13, 12:15-1:30 PM, Van Munching Hall Atrium
Douglas W. Elmendorf is the eighth Director of the Congressional Budget Office (CBO). His term began on January 22, 2009. Before he came to CBO, Doug Elmendorf was a senior fellow in the Economic Studies program at the Brookings Institution. As the Edward M. Bernstein Scholar, he served as coeditor of the Brookings Papers on Economic Activity and the director of the Hamilton Project, an initiative to promote broadly shared economic growth.
Doug Elmendorf was previously an assistant professor at Harvard University, a principal analyst at the Congressional Budget Office, a senior economist at the White House’s Council of Economic Advisers, a deputy assistant secretary for economic policy at the Treasury Department, and an assistant director of the Division of Research and Statistics at the Federal Reserve Board. In those positions, he worked on budget policy, Social Security, Medicare, health care issues, financial markets, macroeconomic analysis and forecasting, and other topics. He earned his Ph.D. and A.M. in economics from Harvard University, where he was a National Science Foundation graduate fellow, and his A.B. summa cum laude from Princeton University.
STERN PROFESSOR OF CIVIC ENGAGEMENT
I.M. Destler is a scholar who specializes in the politics and processes of U.S. foreign policymaking. He is co-author, with Ivo H. Daalder, of In the Shadow of the Oval Office (Simon and Schuster, 2009), which analyzes the role of the President's national security adviser from the Kennedy through the George W. Bush administration. His American Trade Politics (Institute for International Economics, 4th edition, 2005) won the Gladys M. Kammerer Award of the American Political Science Association for the best book on U.S. national policy. Over 100,000 copies of this book are now in print, including Japanese and Chinese translations. Other recent Destler works include Misreading the Public: The Myth of a New Isolationism (Brookings Institution Press, 1999, with Steven Kull), and Protecting the American Homeland, (Brookings Institution, 2002 and 2003, with co-authors).
Stern Professorship Hosts CBO Director Doug Elmendorf, April 13, 12:15-1:30 PM, Van Munching Hall Atrium
Douglas W. Elmendorf is the eighth Director of the Congressional Budget Office (CBO). His term began on January 22, 2009. Before he came to CBO, Doug Elmendorf was a senior fellow in the Economic Studies program at the Brookings Institution. As the Edward M. Bernstein Scholar, he served as coeditor of the Brookings Papers on Economic Activity and the director of the Hamilton Project, an initiative to promote broadly shared economic growth.
Doug Elmendorf was previously an assistant professor at Harvard University, a principal analyst at the Congressional Budget Office, a senior economist at the White House’s Council of Economic Advisers, a deputy assistant secretary for economic policy at the Treasury Department, and an assistant director of the Division of Research and Statistics at the Federal Reserve Board. In those positions, he worked on budget policy, Social Security, Medicare, health care issues, financial markets, macroeconomic analysis and forecasting, and other topics. He earned his Ph.D. and A.M. in economics from Harvard University, where he was a National Science Foundation graduate fellow, and his A.B. summa cum laude from Princeton University.
STERN PROFESSOR OF CIVIC ENGAGEMENT
I.M. Destler is a scholar who specializes in the politics and processes of U.S. foreign policymaking. He is co-author, with Ivo H. Daalder, of In the Shadow of the Oval Office (Simon and Schuster, 2009), which analyzes the role of the President's national security adviser from the Kennedy through the George W. Bush administration. His American Trade Politics (Institute for International Economics, 4th edition, 2005) won the Gladys M. Kammerer Award of the American Political Science Association for the best book on U.S. national policy. Over 100,000 copies of this book are now in print, including Japanese and Chinese translations. Other recent Destler works include Misreading the Public: The Myth of a New Isolationism (Brookings Institution Press, 1999, with Steven Kull), and Protecting the American Homeland, (Brookings Institution, 2002 and 2003, with co-authors).
Fed Event: April 11th, 2 pm, VMH 2505
The talk will take place at the University of Maryland’s campus in Van Munching Hall Room 2505 on April 11th at 2 p.m
On Monday, April 11th, the Center for Financial Policy at the Robert H. Smith School of Business will host Frank Medina, Senior Counsel at the House Financial Services Committee. He will lead a discussion on reform issues pertaining to the Dodd-Frank Act.
This talk is part of the Center for Financial Policy’s “Congressional Briefings” series that regularly host Capitol Hill staffers at the Smith School to speak about legislative issues related to financial policy.
To register, please visit http://guest.cvent.com/d/rdq658.
For more information on the Center, visit our website at http://www.rhsmith.umd.edu/cfp/.
We look forward to seeing you on April 11th!
On Monday, April 11th, the Center for Financial Policy at the Robert H. Smith School of Business will host Frank Medina, Senior Counsel at the House Financial Services Committee. He will lead a discussion on reform issues pertaining to the Dodd-Frank Act.
This talk is part of the Center for Financial Policy’s “Congressional Briefings” series that regularly host Capitol Hill staffers at the Smith School to speak about legislative issues related to financial policy.
To register, please visit http://guest.cvent.com/d/rdq658.
For more information on the Center, visit our website at http://www.rhsmith.umd.edu/cfp/.
We look forward to seeing you on April 11th!
Fed Event: Federal Semester Networking Event this THURSDAY from 4:45-7 PM
Networking Event for Fed Sem Students & Alumni
Thursday, March 31 from 4:45 PM to 7:00 PM, 3103 Susquehanna Hall
Join Federal Semester for an evening of networking and catching up with your cohort. This will count as a federal event for those who attend!
Please RSVP to Rebecca (rschwar4@umd.edu) so we can ensure we have enough food. Thanks very much!
Thursday, March 31 from 4:45 PM to 7:00 PM, 3103 Susquehanna Hall
Join Federal Semester for an evening of networking and catching up with your cohort. This will count as a federal event for those who attend!
Please RSVP to Rebecca (rschwar4@umd.edu) so we can ensure we have enough food. Thanks very much!
Fed Event: Wed. April 6th @ Georgetown University
“There are more than 190 countries in the
world, and virtually all of them enslave
children, women and men within, or across,
their borders.”
When: Wednesday, April 6th, film begins at 7:00 pm
Reception 6:30—7:00 pm. Panel immediately following film
Where: Lohrfink Auditorium, Georgetown University, Washington, DC
Fair Trade beverages and snacks provided
No admission charge ~ Student ID required
Please RSVP by March 15th & Email your RSVP to notmylife.rsvp@gmail.com
The FREE Project invites you to its premiere student event
featuring the acclaimed documentary, Not My Life, by filmmaker
Robert Bilheimer. Following will be a panel discussion on what
you can do to fight human trafficking here and around the world.
Please join our esteemed panel members:
• Mark Lagon
Fmr. US Ambassador‐at‐Large to Combat Trafficking in Persons
• Susan Bissell
UNICEF
• Pablo Villeda
Regional Director of Operations, Latin America, International Justice Mission
• Robert Bilheimer
Director, Not My Life
Hey everyone! We are excited to invite you to a very special evening on Wednesday, April 6 at Georgetown University. As you may know, Students Ending Slavery has been deeply involved in the anti-human trafficking movement as part of our commitment to advancing human rights at University of Maryland and around the world.
As we continue our efforts to raise awareness we’re pleased to announce the premiere student screening of Not My Life, the highly acclaimed documentary on human trafficking by filmmaker Robert Bilheimer. This will be followed by an extraordinary panel of experts who will discuss the topic of modern slavery and human trafficking and what you can do to help.
We expect this event to be highly attended by students from several area universities. The event is free, and seats are limited! If you'd like to attend, please RSVP by clicking on the link at the bottom of the attached invitation, and please provide your official school email address. You'll need to show your student ID to check in at the door.
P.S. Don't forget to RSVP! (notmylife.rsvp@gmail.com)
world, and virtually all of them enslave
children, women and men within, or across,
their borders.”
When: Wednesday, April 6th, film begins at 7:00 pm
Reception 6:30—7:00 pm. Panel immediately following film
Where: Lohrfink Auditorium, Georgetown University, Washington, DC
Fair Trade beverages and snacks provided
No admission charge ~ Student ID required
Please RSVP by March 15th & Email your RSVP to notmylife.rsvp@gmail.com
The FREE Project invites you to its premiere student event
featuring the acclaimed documentary, Not My Life, by filmmaker
Robert Bilheimer. Following will be a panel discussion on what
you can do to fight human trafficking here and around the world.
Please join our esteemed panel members:
• Mark Lagon
Fmr. US Ambassador‐at‐Large to Combat Trafficking in Persons
• Susan Bissell
UNICEF
• Pablo Villeda
Regional Director of Operations, Latin America, International Justice Mission
• Robert Bilheimer
Director, Not My Life
Hey everyone! We are excited to invite you to a very special evening on Wednesday, April 6 at Georgetown University. As you may know, Students Ending Slavery has been deeply involved in the anti-human trafficking movement as part of our commitment to advancing human rights at University of Maryland and around the world.
As we continue our efforts to raise awareness we’re pleased to announce the premiere student screening of Not My Life, the highly acclaimed documentary on human trafficking by filmmaker Robert Bilheimer. This will be followed by an extraordinary panel of experts who will discuss the topic of modern slavery and human trafficking and what you can do to help.
We expect this event to be highly attended by students from several area universities. The event is free, and seats are limited! If you'd like to attend, please RSVP by clicking on the link at the bottom of the attached invitation, and please provide your official school email address. You'll need to show your student ID to check in at the door.
P.S. Don't forget to RSVP! (notmylife.rsvp@gmail.com)
Fed Event: Wednesday, 3:30-5 PM, UNIV seminar
Note: This event is during the Wednesday section of UNIV. Any other Federal Semester students who want to join us for a federal event that day can do so also.
Wednesday, March 30th event from 4:00-5:00pm! Her name is Sarah Martyn Crowell and she is currently a PMF at the National Institutes of Health.
Sarah Martyn Crowell is a Presidential Management Fellow at the National Institutes of Health. During her time as a PMF, Sarah has worked on a number of projects involving policy, management, and program analysis and is listed as a co-contributor on several Partnership for Public Service publications. She has also served as one of the leads for PMF recruitment at NIH in 2010 and 2011.
Before joining NIH, Sarah worked in program and project management for several organizations, including Citizens for Election Integrity Minnesota, the Science Museum of Minnesota, and Habitat for Humanity in Tacoma, WA. She also served as an adjunct faculty member for St. Catherine’s College in Minnesota, teaching classes on social change. Sarah received a Master’s of Public Policy from the University of Minnesota in 2008 and a BA in Philosophy from Kalamazoo College in 2003. Outside of the office she enjoys a variety of activities from karaoke to roller derby.
Wednesday, March 30th event from 4:00-5:00pm! Her name is Sarah Martyn Crowell and she is currently a PMF at the National Institutes of Health.
Sarah Martyn Crowell is a Presidential Management Fellow at the National Institutes of Health. During her time as a PMF, Sarah has worked on a number of projects involving policy, management, and program analysis and is listed as a co-contributor on several Partnership for Public Service publications. She has also served as one of the leads for PMF recruitment at NIH in 2010 and 2011.
Before joining NIH, Sarah worked in program and project management for several organizations, including Citizens for Election Integrity Minnesota, the Science Museum of Minnesota, and Habitat for Humanity in Tacoma, WA. She also served as an adjunct faculty member for St. Catherine’s College in Minnesota, teaching classes on social change. Sarah received a Master’s of Public Policy from the University of Minnesota in 2008 and a BA in Philosophy from Kalamazoo College in 2003. Outside of the office she enjoys a variety of activities from karaoke to roller derby.
Upcoming Federal Events & Announcements!
Upcoming Federal Events:
* TODAY, March 29th: 12:15-1:30 PM,1203 Van Munching Hall: Policy forum w/ G. Edward DeSeve, Former Assistant to the Vice President and Special Adviser to the OMB Director for Implementation of the Recovery Act.
“The Double Dilemma in Stimulus Spending: Unemployment versus Deficit Goals”
*TONIGHT, March 29th: 6:30-8:30 PM, Atrium of Van Munching Hall: The Center of Academic Excellence at Maryland will host General Michael hayden, USAF, Retired--"Thinking about Cyber: Why Is It So Hard?"
*Wednesday, March 30th, 12:00-1:00 PM, "Smart Growth Brown Bag Presentations", Assistant Professor Isaac Williams
Conference Room 1213 in the School of Architecture
* Wednesday, March 30th: 12:15-1:30pm, Faisal Z. Ahmed, Candidate for Faculty in International Development,"Remittances Foster Government Corruption", 1203 Van Munching Hall
*Thursday, March 31st: 12:15-1:30 PM, 1203 Van Munching Hall: “Nuclear Policy in the Obama Administration”, Steve Fetter, assistant director at-large, Office of Science and Technology Policy, Executive Office of the President
Announcements:
* Students Interested in Health: The Student Health Advisory Committee (SHAC) is now accepting applications for new members for the 2011-2012 academic year! SHAC is a coalition of students working closely with the University Health Center to promote health across the campus community as the student voice of the health center. As a SHAC member, not only would you get to interact behind the scenes with University Health Center staff, but you will also have opportunities to work behind-the-scenes to promote health at outreach events like First Look Fair, Late Night Maryland, and Maryland Day. As a member of SHAC, you will have the opportunity to not only help improve the services of the Health Center, but work to improve the health and well being of the Univeristy of Maryland. To apply, please follow this link for the application: https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?hl=en&formkey=dGN0b2xXM3FFMElubEVWdlg2bWxkRGc6MQ#gid=0
*Unpaid summer internship with FEMA, Legislative Affairs Division. Apply by April 7:
The Legislative Affairs Division is FEMA’s primary liaison with the United States Congress. Our mission is to proactively engage and communicate with Members of Congress and their staffs to build strong working relationships that will advance the Agency's legislative and emergency management priorities. We accomplish this mission by:
Informing Congress of agency efforts to support our citizens and first responders in preparing for, protecting against, responding to, recovering from, and mitigating all hazards;
Responding to various Congressional inquiries related to emergency management and disaster response/recovery issues;
Providing Members of Congress and their staffs with regular updates on key developments in Presidentially-declared disasters; and
Advising the FEMA Administrator, and other senior agency officials, on legislative matters pertaining to emergency management.
Job Description:
This summer internship is a full-time, unpaid position. The intern will assist the Legislative Affairs Division staff on various projects that will require the intern to research and read through legislation, participate in FEMA meetings and Congressional hearings and perform administrative tasks. In addition, the intern will gain valuable experience in the federal government, learning, about emergency management, congressional relations and legislation.
Qualifications:
· Undergraduate Student with 75+ credits
· Possess strong research and writing skills
· Strong work ethic and communication skills
· Must have a desire to learn and work hard in a fast-paced environment
· Be able to work independently
Application: Please send a cover letter, resume, and a 1-2 page writing sample by April 7, 2011 to Jeff Rezmovic at jeffrey.rezmovic@dhs.gov.
* TODAY, March 29th: 12:15-1:30 PM,1203 Van Munching Hall: Policy forum w/ G. Edward DeSeve, Former Assistant to the Vice President and Special Adviser to the OMB Director for Implementation of the Recovery Act.
“The Double Dilemma in Stimulus Spending: Unemployment versus Deficit Goals”
*TONIGHT, March 29th: 6:30-8:30 PM, Atrium of Van Munching Hall: The Center of Academic Excellence at Maryland will host General Michael hayden, USAF, Retired--"Thinking about Cyber: Why Is It So Hard?"
*Wednesday, March 30th, 12:00-1:00 PM, "Smart Growth Brown Bag Presentations", Assistant Professor Isaac Williams
Conference Room 1213 in the School of Architecture
* Wednesday, March 30th: 12:15-1:30pm, Faisal Z. Ahmed, Candidate for Faculty in International Development,"Remittances Foster Government Corruption", 1203 Van Munching Hall
*Thursday, March 31st: 12:15-1:30 PM, 1203 Van Munching Hall: “Nuclear Policy in the Obama Administration”, Steve Fetter, assistant director at-large, Office of Science and Technology Policy, Executive Office of the President
Announcements:
* Students Interested in Health: The Student Health Advisory Committee (SHAC) is now accepting applications for new members for the 2011-2012 academic year! SHAC is a coalition of students working closely with the University Health Center to promote health across the campus community as the student voice of the health center. As a SHAC member, not only would you get to interact behind the scenes with University Health Center staff, but you will also have opportunities to work behind-the-scenes to promote health at outreach events like First Look Fair, Late Night Maryland, and Maryland Day. As a member of SHAC, you will have the opportunity to not only help improve the services of the Health Center, but work to improve the health and well being of the Univeristy of Maryland. To apply, please follow this link for the application: https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?hl=en&formkey=dGN0b2xXM3FFMElubEVWdlg2bWxkRGc6MQ#gid=0
*Unpaid summer internship with FEMA, Legislative Affairs Division. Apply by April 7:
The Legislative Affairs Division is FEMA’s primary liaison with the United States Congress. Our mission is to proactively engage and communicate with Members of Congress and their staffs to build strong working relationships that will advance the Agency's legislative and emergency management priorities. We accomplish this mission by:
Informing Congress of agency efforts to support our citizens and first responders in preparing for, protecting against, responding to, recovering from, and mitigating all hazards;
Responding to various Congressional inquiries related to emergency management and disaster response/recovery issues;
Providing Members of Congress and their staffs with regular updates on key developments in Presidentially-declared disasters; and
Advising the FEMA Administrator, and other senior agency officials, on legislative matters pertaining to emergency management.
Job Description:
This summer internship is a full-time, unpaid position. The intern will assist the Legislative Affairs Division staff on various projects that will require the intern to research and read through legislation, participate in FEMA meetings and Congressional hearings and perform administrative tasks. In addition, the intern will gain valuable experience in the federal government, learning, about emergency management, congressional relations and legislation.
Qualifications:
· Undergraduate Student with 75+ credits
· Possess strong research and writing skills
· Strong work ethic and communication skills
· Must have a desire to learn and work hard in a fast-paced environment
· Be able to work independently
Application: Please send a cover letter, resume, and a 1-2 page writing sample by April 7, 2011 to Jeff Rezmovic at jeffrey.rezmovic@dhs.gov.
Friday, March 18, 2011
Fed Event TODAY at 12:15 PM
Environmental Policy Roundtable
Friday, March 18, 2011, Room 1107 Van Munching Hall, 12:15 - 1:30pm
Algal Turf Scrubbers and Clean Water Innovation
Increased urbanization and farming have led to euthrophication of our waterways, leading to many environmental problems, including algal blooms. One proposal to clean the waters involves using algae. Dail Laughinghouse, MEES doctoral student, will lead a discussion about current and previous work using Algal Turf Scrubbers (ATS). The ATS are mini-ecosystems dominated by periphytic algal mats (algal turfs) and have been in constant operation for over two decades. Ranging from 0.1m2 to 3ha in size, the systems provide multiple benefits to the environment by improving water quality as well as producing biomass for biofuels and other co-products.
Dail’s research focus is in the taxonomy, systematics and ecology of algae, mainly in freshwater and estuarine habitats. He has also been involved with projects working with subaerial habitats and soil crusts.
We look forward to seeing you at our discussion.
Best,
Your EESG Team
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The Ecological Economics Student Group (EESG) is a student-organized forum for the presentation and discussion of ideas and new work within the broad domain of Ecological Economics and interdisciplinary environmental policy. This seminar is also offered for 1 credit as 'Ecological Economics and Development' (MEES 608N).
EESG is on facebook! http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=lf#!/group.php?gid=112404058770759&ref=ts
Friday, March 18, 2011, Room 1107 Van Munching Hall, 12:15 - 1:30pm
Algal Turf Scrubbers and Clean Water Innovation
Increased urbanization and farming have led to euthrophication of our waterways, leading to many environmental problems, including algal blooms. One proposal to clean the waters involves using algae. Dail Laughinghouse, MEES doctoral student, will lead a discussion about current and previous work using Algal Turf Scrubbers (ATS). The ATS are mini-ecosystems dominated by periphytic algal mats (algal turfs) and have been in constant operation for over two decades. Ranging from 0.1m2 to 3ha in size, the systems provide multiple benefits to the environment by improving water quality as well as producing biomass for biofuels and other co-products.
Dail’s research focus is in the taxonomy, systematics and ecology of algae, mainly in freshwater and estuarine habitats. He has also been involved with projects working with subaerial habitats and soil crusts.
We look forward to seeing you at our discussion.
Best,
Your EESG Team
******
The Ecological Economics Student Group (EESG) is a student-organized forum for the presentation and discussion of ideas and new work within the broad domain of Ecological Economics and interdisciplinary environmental policy. This seminar is also offered for 1 credit as 'Ecological Economics and Development' (MEES 608N).
EESG is on facebook! http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=lf#!/group.php?gid=112404058770759&ref=ts
Fed Event Postings
Be Bold, Be Now, Be the Future
Thursday, March 31, 2011, 5:00 – 9:00 p.m., Doors open at 4:00 p.m., Student Stamp Union, University of Maryland
The Center for Social Value Creation invites you to its third annual Social Enterprise Symposium ‘Be Bold, Be Now, Be the Future’ on March 31st 2011.
On March 31st, 2011, learn -
* New approaches for using business to create blended economic, social and environmental value
* How organizations of all sizes are reframing business’ role in society
* To apply business skills to social enterprise ventures
* Ways to address issues you care most deeply about by seeking systematic change
* To align personal and professional values to create a career with impact
The Social Enterprise Symposium gives you the opportunity to explore, learn and challenge what you know about building solutions to social and environmental challenges of today...and tomorrow. Hear from social entrepreneurs who have disrupted traditional boundaries to start their ventures that combine business principles with social mission. Follow the vision of Seth Goldman, the CEO of Honest Tea, as he designed and built a company that would transform an industry. Pitch your world changing ideas to thought leaders and investors to win prizes in the Social Business Plan Competition.
Join students, faculty, alumni and practitioners for this University-wide event.
Register Now for the 2011 Social Enterprise Symposium!
2011 Symposium Networking Fair
We invite attendees to join the Networking Fair at the Social Enterprise Symposium for a chance to mingle and network with for-profit and non-profit organizations who are leading the effort on corporate social responsibility, sustainability and more. Organizations interested in participating at the 2011 Symposium Networking Fair may register here.
Capitol Hill Days
Population Connections
INVITES YOU TO
Capitol Hill Days
April 1-5, 2011
Churchill Hotel
1914 Connecticut Ave., NW
Washington, DC 20009
Come to DC and
lobby on Capitol Hill
Attendance is free, but registration
is required. For more information
contact Rebecca Harrington
at 202-974-7738 or
rharrington@populationconnection.org
Intelligence and National Security Mentoring Event
Students and young IC professionals are welcome to join INSA at our second Mentoring Event of the year. INSA's Mentoring Events are designed to offer career guidance, share experiences and provide networking opportunities for future leaders of the intelligence community and their private sector partners. The theme for the evening is work/life balance. Joan Dempsey and Mike Leiter will discuss the challenges and successes in balancing the unique demands of an IC career while also having a strong and fulfilling life at home.
REGISTER HERE!
Tuesday, April 5, 2011, 6:00PM - 8:00PM, Sheraton National Hotel, Galaxy Ballroom
900 South Orme St., Arlington, VA 22204
Cost
IC Professionals $30; IC Students $20
To register with the student discount please email Rachel Phillips at rphillips@insaonline.org from your student email account.
REGISTER HERE!
Click here to view highlights from INSA's January 2011 Mentoring Event.
Thursday, March 31, 2011, 5:00 – 9:00 p.m., Doors open at 4:00 p.m., Student Stamp Union, University of Maryland
The Center for Social Value Creation invites you to its third annual Social Enterprise Symposium ‘Be Bold, Be Now, Be the Future’ on March 31st 2011.
On March 31st, 2011, learn -
* New approaches for using business to create blended economic, social and environmental value
* How organizations of all sizes are reframing business’ role in society
* To apply business skills to social enterprise ventures
* Ways to address issues you care most deeply about by seeking systematic change
* To align personal and professional values to create a career with impact
The Social Enterprise Symposium gives you the opportunity to explore, learn and challenge what you know about building solutions to social and environmental challenges of today...and tomorrow. Hear from social entrepreneurs who have disrupted traditional boundaries to start their ventures that combine business principles with social mission. Follow the vision of Seth Goldman, the CEO of Honest Tea, as he designed and built a company that would transform an industry. Pitch your world changing ideas to thought leaders and investors to win prizes in the Social Business Plan Competition.
Join students, faculty, alumni and practitioners for this University-wide event.
Register Now for the 2011 Social Enterprise Symposium!
2011 Symposium Networking Fair
We invite attendees to join the Networking Fair at the Social Enterprise Symposium for a chance to mingle and network with for-profit and non-profit organizations who are leading the effort on corporate social responsibility, sustainability and more. Organizations interested in participating at the 2011 Symposium Networking Fair may register here.
Capitol Hill Days
Population Connections
INVITES YOU TO
Capitol Hill Days
April 1-5, 2011
Churchill Hotel
1914 Connecticut Ave., NW
Washington, DC 20009
Come to DC and
lobby on Capitol Hill
Attendance is free, but registration
is required. For more information
contact Rebecca Harrington
at 202-974-7738 or
rharrington@populationconnection.org
Intelligence and National Security Mentoring Event
Students and young IC professionals are welcome to join INSA at our second Mentoring Event of the year. INSA's Mentoring Events are designed to offer career guidance, share experiences and provide networking opportunities for future leaders of the intelligence community and their private sector partners. The theme for the evening is work/life balance. Joan Dempsey and Mike Leiter will discuss the challenges and successes in balancing the unique demands of an IC career while also having a strong and fulfilling life at home.
REGISTER HERE!
Tuesday, April 5, 2011, 6:00PM - 8:00PM, Sheraton National Hotel, Galaxy Ballroom
900 South Orme St., Arlington, VA 22204
Cost
IC Professionals $30; IC Students $20
To register with the student discount please email Rachel Phillips at rphillips@insaonline.org from your student email account.
REGISTER HERE!
Click here to view highlights from INSA's January 2011 Mentoring Event.
Thursday, March 17, 2011
Fed Event: SAVE THE DATE! April 13th 12:15-1:30 PM,Stern Professorship Hosts Doug Elmendorf
Stern Professorship for Civic Engagement to host Congressional Budget Office Director Douglas W. Elmendorf
Wednesday, April 13, 2011 at 12:15 pm-1:30 pm
*More information to come.
http://www.publicpolicy.umd.edu/events/292
Wednesday, April 13, 2011 at 12:15 pm-1:30 pm
*More information to come.
http://www.publicpolicy.umd.edu/events/292
Fed Event: CISSM Forum: NUCLEAR POLICY, March 31st, 12:15-1:30 PM, 1203 VMH
CISSM Forum: “Nuclear Policy in the Obama Administration”
Thursday, March 31, 2011 at 12:15 pm- 1:30 pm, 1203 Van Munching Hall
Speaker: Steve Fetter, Assistant Director at-Large, Office of Science and Technology Policy, Executive Office of the President
Steve Fetter is the assistant director at-large at the Office of Science and Technology Policy in the Executive Office of the President. He focuses on the scientific and technical aspects of energy, climate change, and security policy
issues. Fetter is on leave from the Maryland School of Public Policy, where he has been a professor since 1988, serving as dean from 2005 to 2009. His research and policy interests include nuclear arms control and nonproliferation, nuclear energy and releases of radiation, and climate change and carbon-free energy supply.
The CISSM Forum is supported by the Yamamoto-Scheffelin Endowment for Policy Research.
WEBSITE: http://www.publicpolicy.umd.edu/uploads/cms/March%2031%202011%20Steve%20Fetter.pdf
Thursday, March 31, 2011 at 12:15 pm- 1:30 pm, 1203 Van Munching Hall
Speaker: Steve Fetter, Assistant Director at-Large, Office of Science and Technology Policy, Executive Office of the President
Steve Fetter is the assistant director at-large at the Office of Science and Technology Policy in the Executive Office of the President. He focuses on the scientific and technical aspects of energy, climate change, and security policy
issues. Fetter is on leave from the Maryland School of Public Policy, where he has been a professor since 1988, serving as dean from 2005 to 2009. His research and policy interests include nuclear arms control and nonproliferation, nuclear energy and releases of radiation, and climate change and carbon-free energy supply.
The CISSM Forum is supported by the Yamamoto-Scheffelin Endowment for Policy Research.
WEBSITE: http://www.publicpolicy.umd.edu/uploads/cms/March%2031%202011%20Steve%20Fetter.pdf
Fed Event: March 30th, 12-1 PM, Smart Growth Brown Bag Presentation
Smart Growth Brown Bag Presentations
Assistant Professor Isaac Williams
March 30th, 12:00-1:00 PM, Conference Room 1213, School of Architecture
(Coordinated by Associate Dean Gerrit Knapp)
Assistant Professor Isaac Williams
March 30th, 12:00-1:00 PM, Conference Room 1213, School of Architecture
(Coordinated by Associate Dean Gerrit Knapp)
Fed Event: American Intellingence, American Democracy, March 29th, 6:30 PM, VMH Atrium
"American Intelligence, American Democracy"
The Center of Academic Excellence at Maryland will host General Michael Hayden, USAF, Retired
March 29th, 6:30-Light Reception & 7:00-8:00 PM Discussion and Q&A, Van Munching Hall Atrium
Fed Event: March 21st, 6 PM, "Social Media's Role in Recent Events in the Middle East"
The Washington ICT4D Meetup is excited to announce our return from hiatus with a timely discussion on the role of technology in the recent events of the Middle East.
From Tunisia to Egypt to Bahrain to Libya - and with simmering unrest elsewhere - technology has played a role in augmenting and defining the narrative of protest and revolution. Please join us while we discuss the extent of the influence of ICTs, debunk the myths of a social media revolution, and talk about what happens next.
March ICT4D Meetup is co-hosted by Johns Hopkins University's Communication Program and Appropriate IT.
Social Media's Role in Recent Events in the Middle East
Monday March 21, 2011 at 6:00 pm, Johns Hopkins University, 1717 Massachusettes Ave., NW, Washington, DC
Agenda
6:00 – 6:30 pm: Meet, Greet, and Network
6:30 – 7:30 pm: Panel Discussion
RSVP for March ICT4D meetup: Social Media's Role in Recent Events in the Middle East
Panelists
* Jeffrey Ghannam is a lawyer, journalist and media consultant. He is the author of Social Media in the Arab World: Leading up to the Uprisings of 2011, a report from the National Endowment for Democracy's Center for International Media Assistance.
* Amira Maaty is a Program Officer for the Middle East and North Africa with the National Endowment for Democracy. She is a frequent speaker on the how activists and civil society used social media (and other technologies) during and prior to the events as well as how its being used now in the aftermath. Prior to joining NED, she had been with IREX and Internews Network.
* Katherine Maher is a Program Officer for information and communication technology and civil society at the National Democratic Institute. Her work emphasizes communication in closed regimes, with a particular focus on the Middle East. She writes frequently on technology and development.
Information and Communication Technologies for Development (ICT4D) meetup is a learning network of and for practitioners to share knowledge, information, experiences, and projects in this field.
From Tunisia to Egypt to Bahrain to Libya - and with simmering unrest elsewhere - technology has played a role in augmenting and defining the narrative of protest and revolution. Please join us while we discuss the extent of the influence of ICTs, debunk the myths of a social media revolution, and talk about what happens next.
March ICT4D Meetup is co-hosted by Johns Hopkins University's Communication Program and Appropriate IT.
Social Media's Role in Recent Events in the Middle East
Monday March 21, 2011 at 6:00 pm, Johns Hopkins University, 1717 Massachusettes Ave., NW, Washington, DC
Agenda
6:00 – 6:30 pm: Meet, Greet, and Network
6:30 – 7:30 pm: Panel Discussion
RSVP for March ICT4D meetup: Social Media's Role in Recent Events in the Middle East
Panelists
* Jeffrey Ghannam is a lawyer, journalist and media consultant. He is the author of Social Media in the Arab World: Leading up to the Uprisings of 2011, a report from the National Endowment for Democracy's Center for International Media Assistance.
* Amira Maaty is a Program Officer for the Middle East and North Africa with the National Endowment for Democracy. She is a frequent speaker on the how activists and civil society used social media (and other technologies) during and prior to the events as well as how its being used now in the aftermath. Prior to joining NED, she had been with IREX and Internews Network.
* Katherine Maher is a Program Officer for information and communication technology and civil society at the National Democratic Institute. Her work emphasizes communication in closed regimes, with a particular focus on the Middle East. She writes frequently on technology and development.
Information and Communication Technologies for Development (ICT4D) meetup is a learning network of and for practitioners to share knowledge, information, experiences, and projects in this field.
Fed Event: March 29th: How DC Govt. Works & How To Influence Policy
HOW DC GOVERNMENT WORKS & HOW TO INFLUENCE POLICY
- Learn who is your council member and how to contact them.
- Learn what role they play in the services your received.
- And learn how to advocate for yourself and your organization to
receive better services.
Presented by:
Mackenzie Baris, Lead Organizer DC Jobs with Justice
St. Stephen and the Incarnation Church
1525 Newton St NW
(Columbia Heights Metro, S2/S4 bus lines)
March 29th, The training will be from 6:30pm to 8:30pm.
RSVP to Lillian at (202) 974-8281 lshelton@dclabor.org
- Learn who is your council member and how to contact them.
- Learn what role they play in the services your received.
- And learn how to advocate for yourself and your organization to
receive better services.
Presented by:
Mackenzie Baris, Lead Organizer DC Jobs with Justice
St. Stephen and the Incarnation Church
1525 Newton St NW
(Columbia Heights Metro, S2/S4 bus lines)
March 29th, The training will be from 6:30pm to 8:30pm.
RSVP to Lillian at (202) 974-8281 lshelton@dclabor.org
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
Fed Event @ Center for American Progress, "Assessing Transition Goals in Afghanistan" March 22nd
Please join the Center for American Progress for the first installment of our new series, Transition and Realignment of U.S. Strategy in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Assessing Transition Goals in Afghanistan
March 22, 2011, 12:00pm – 1:30pm
Admission is free.
RSVP to attend this event
Panelists:
Anand Gopal, Independent Journalist
David Kilcullen, Senior Fellow, Center for New American Security
Caroline Wadhams, Director for South Asia Security Studies, Center for American Progress
Moderator:
Matthieu Aikins, Independent Journalist and Fellow, New York University
In a speech in Kabul on March 21, Afghan President Hamid Karzai will mark the official inauguration of the transition process endorsed by NATO allies in November 2010, a process set to culminate in 2014 with the full transfer of security responsibilities to Afghan lead. The conditions under which that transition will take place remain ill-defined, however, even as the United States carries on parallel strategic partnership talks with the Karzai administration for a commitment beyond 2014. What political and diplomatic preparations are being made for an Afghan political settlement that can be sustained absent large-scale international military and financial investment in the country, and what shifts need to take place in advance of transition?
Please join the Center for American Progress for the first event in a monthly series of discussions through this summer which will focus on issues related to the evolving transition and realignment of U.S. strategy in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Future scheduled events in this series:
• April 19, 2011 - Debating Counterinsurgency in Afghanistan
• May 4, 2011
• May 24, 2011
• June 23, 2011
March 22, 2011, 12:00pm – 1:30pm
Space is extremely limited. RSVP required.
Seating is on a first-come, first-served basis and not guaranteed.
Lunch will be served at 11:30 a.m.
Center for American Progress
1333 H St. NW, 10th Floor
Washington, DC 20005
Map & Directions
Nearest Metro: Blue/Orange Line to McPherson Square or Red Line to Metro Center
RSVP to attend this event
For more information, call 202-682-1611.
Assessing Transition Goals in Afghanistan
March 22, 2011, 12:00pm – 1:30pm
Admission is free.
RSVP to attend this event
Panelists:
Anand Gopal, Independent Journalist
David Kilcullen, Senior Fellow, Center for New American Security
Caroline Wadhams, Director for South Asia Security Studies, Center for American Progress
Moderator:
Matthieu Aikins, Independent Journalist and Fellow, New York University
In a speech in Kabul on March 21, Afghan President Hamid Karzai will mark the official inauguration of the transition process endorsed by NATO allies in November 2010, a process set to culminate in 2014 with the full transfer of security responsibilities to Afghan lead. The conditions under which that transition will take place remain ill-defined, however, even as the United States carries on parallel strategic partnership talks with the Karzai administration for a commitment beyond 2014. What political and diplomatic preparations are being made for an Afghan political settlement that can be sustained absent large-scale international military and financial investment in the country, and what shifts need to take place in advance of transition?
Please join the Center for American Progress for the first event in a monthly series of discussions through this summer which will focus on issues related to the evolving transition and realignment of U.S. strategy in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Future scheduled events in this series:
• April 19, 2011 - Debating Counterinsurgency in Afghanistan
• May 4, 2011
• May 24, 2011
• June 23, 2011
March 22, 2011, 12:00pm – 1:30pm
Space is extremely limited. RSVP required.
Seating is on a first-come, first-served basis and not guaranteed.
Lunch will be served at 11:30 a.m.
Center for American Progress
1333 H St. NW, 10th Floor
Washington, DC 20005
Map & Directions
Nearest Metro: Blue/Orange Line to McPherson Square or Red Line to Metro Center
RSVP to attend this event
For more information, call 202-682-1611.
Fed Event: 2011 Social Enterprise Symposium at UMD, March 31st, 5-9 PM
Be Bold, Be Now, Be the Future
Thursday, March 31, 2011, 5 – 9 p.m. Doors open at 4 p.m., Adele H. Stamp Student Union, University of Maryland
The Center for Social Value Creation at the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business invites you to its Third Annual Social Enterprise Symposium: Be Bold, Be Now, Be the Future, on March 31, 2011.
What to expect:
o A wide array of panel topics from addressing obesity in the U.S. to growing small businesses in Africa
o Business leaders discussing social and environmental value creation while earning profit
o Organization shaping business' role in society
o Insight into essential social enterprise business skills
o Career advice - even a networking fair!
The Social Enterprise Symposium gives you the opportunity to explore, learn and challenge what you know about building solutions to social and environmental dilemmas of today … and tomorrow. Hear from social entrepreneurs who challenge traditional boundaries to start their ventures, combining business principles with social mission. Follow the vision of Seth Goldman, CEO of Honest Tea, who designed and built a company that has transformed the beverage industry. Pitch to and get feedback from thought leaders and investors on your world-changing start-up ideas to win prizes in the Social Business Plan Competition.
Join students, faculty, alumni, and practitioners for this university-wide event.
Register Now for the 2011 Social Enterprise Symposium!
2011 Symposium Networking Fair
We invite attendees to join the Networking Fair at the Social Enterprise Symposium for a chance to mingle and network with for-profit and non-profit organizations who are leading the effort on corporate social responsibility, sustainability and more. Organizations interested in participating at the 2011 Symposium Networking Fair may register here.
Visit www.rhsmith.umd.edu/ses for more details.
Thursday, March 31, 2011, 5 – 9 p.m. Doors open at 4 p.m., Adele H. Stamp Student Union, University of Maryland
The Center for Social Value Creation at the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business invites you to its Third Annual Social Enterprise Symposium: Be Bold, Be Now, Be the Future, on March 31, 2011.
What to expect:
o A wide array of panel topics from addressing obesity in the U.S. to growing small businesses in Africa
o Business leaders discussing social and environmental value creation while earning profit
o Organization shaping business' role in society
o Insight into essential social enterprise business skills
o Career advice - even a networking fair!
The Social Enterprise Symposium gives you the opportunity to explore, learn and challenge what you know about building solutions to social and environmental dilemmas of today … and tomorrow. Hear from social entrepreneurs who challenge traditional boundaries to start their ventures, combining business principles with social mission. Follow the vision of Seth Goldman, CEO of Honest Tea, who designed and built a company that has transformed the beverage industry. Pitch to and get feedback from thought leaders and investors on your world-changing start-up ideas to win prizes in the Social Business Plan Competition.
Join students, faculty, alumni, and practitioners for this university-wide event.
Register Now for the 2011 Social Enterprise Symposium!
2011 Symposium Networking Fair
We invite attendees to join the Networking Fair at the Social Enterprise Symposium for a chance to mingle and network with for-profit and non-profit organizations who are leading the effort on corporate social responsibility, sustainability and more. Organizations interested in participating at the 2011 Symposium Networking Fair may register here.
Visit www.rhsmith.umd.edu/ses for more details.
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
Fed Event: March 16th, 2:30-4 PM
MSPP Hosts Public and Nonprofit Leaders Who Discuss Their Diverse Experiences and Lessons in Achieving Results
2:30-4:00 PM | Non-Profit Management Panel
Professors Betty Duke and Bob Grimm will lead a panel of two prominent leaders in government and nonprofits: Shannon Maynard and Cheryl Austein Casnoff
Executive Dining Room (right above Rudy’s)
Start Date: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 at 2:30 pm
End Date: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 at 4:00 pm
Location: Executive Dining Room (right above Rudy’s)
2:30-4:00 PM | Non-Profit Management Panel
Professors Betty Duke and Bob Grimm will lead a panel of two prominent leaders in government and nonprofits: Shannon Maynard and Cheryl Austein Casnoff
Executive Dining Room (right above Rudy’s)
Start Date: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 at 2:30 pm
End Date: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 at 4:00 pm
Location: Executive Dining Room (right above Rudy’s)
Fed Event: April 5; 10:30 AM-11:30 AM
Ambassadorial Lecture Series: “China’s Development and Foreign Policy”
His Excellency Zhang Yesui, Ambassador of the People’s Republic of China to the United States
Tuesday, April 5th,10:30—11:30 a.m., Atrium, First Floor, Stamp Student Union
The lecture is free and open to the University of Maryland community. Seating is limited and will be on a first-come, first-served basis.
Lecture hosted by: President Wallace Loh, School of Public Policy, Center for International and Security Studies at
Maryland, Institute for International Programs, and Confucius Institute at Maryland
His Excellency Zhang Yesui, Ambassador of the People’s Republic of China to the United States
Tuesday, April 5th,10:30—11:30 a.m., Atrium, First Floor, Stamp Student Union
The lecture is free and open to the University of Maryland community. Seating is limited and will be on a first-come, first-served basis.
Lecture hosted by: President Wallace Loh, School of Public Policy, Center for International and Security Studies at
Maryland, Institute for International Programs, and Confucius Institute at Maryland
Fed Event: TODAY, 12:15 PM, 1203 VMH
Please join us for the Tuesday Policy Forum on March 15th featuring Dr. Steven J. Smith, senior scientist, Joint Global Change Research Institute. He will be speaking on the topic, "Geo-Engineering the Climate: Part of the Solution (Or Part of the Problem)?"
The Forum will be held in Room 1203 Van Munching Hall, 12:15-1:30 PM.
Tuesday Policy Forum | | March 15
Dr. Steven J. Smith is a senior scientist at the Joint Global Change Research Institute in College Park, MD (JGCRI; Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and the University of Maryland). His research focuses on long-term socio-economic scenarios and the interface between socio-economic systems and the climate system in the areas of aerosols/greenhouse gases, energy efficiency, renewable energy, the carbon-cycle, and land-use changes. Recent research includes: examination of the role of non-CO2 forcing agents in policy scenarios, including sulfate aerosols, historical sulfur dioxide emissions, black carbon, and non-CO2 greenhouse gases, and analysis of the role of renewable energy and energy efficiency in meeting greenhouse gas emission goals. Smith was one of the developers of the ObjECTS object-oriented modeling framework used at JGCRI and a lead author for the IPCC Special Report on Emissions Scenarios. He received his PhD in physics from the University of California at Los Angeles.
The Forum will be held in Room 1203 Van Munching Hall, 12:15-1:30 PM.
Tuesday Policy Forum | | March 15
Dr. Steven J. Smith is a senior scientist at the Joint Global Change Research Institute in College Park, MD (JGCRI; Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and the University of Maryland). His research focuses on long-term socio-economic scenarios and the interface between socio-economic systems and the climate system in the areas of aerosols/greenhouse gases, energy efficiency, renewable energy, the carbon-cycle, and land-use changes. Recent research includes: examination of the role of non-CO2 forcing agents in policy scenarios, including sulfate aerosols, historical sulfur dioxide emissions, black carbon, and non-CO2 greenhouse gases, and analysis of the role of renewable energy and energy efficiency in meeting greenhouse gas emission goals. Smith was one of the developers of the ObjECTS object-oriented modeling framework used at JGCRI and a lead author for the IPCC Special Report on Emissions Scenarios. He received his PhD in physics from the University of California at Los Angeles.
Fed Events: Foreign Policy Events in DC
Monday (14 March)
The Rise of India: What It Means for the United States
http://www.aei.org/event/100379
Virtual Hemispheric Forum: “Women’s leadership for a citizens’ democracy”
http://www.oas.org/en/events/calendar.asp
The Most Dangerous Man in America, a documentary on the Pentagon Papers and the life of Daniel Ellsberg
http://www.publicpolicy.umd.edu/events/2011-03-14
Building Capacity for Trade in Developing Countries
http://www.uschamber.com/events/building-capacity-trade-developing-countries
Challenges of Contemporary Portuguese Foreign Policy
http://www.sais-jhu.edu/calendar/
The Wall Street of China: Filmmaking in the Middle Kingdom
http://www.sais-jhu.edu/calendar/
Familiar Strangers: The Georgian Diaspora in the Multiethnic Soviet Empire
http://www.wilsoncenter.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=events.event_summary&event_id=651340
Book Launch: The Future Faces of War: Population and National Security
http://www.wilsoncenter.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=events.event_summary&event_id=651674
International Organizations and Taiwan
http://www.brookings.edu/events/2011/0314_taiwan.aspx
Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
http://events.georgetown.edu/events/index.cfm?Action=View&CalendarID=87&EventID=84267
Stephen Zunes: Nonviolent Action in Pro-Democracy Struggles
http://events.georgetown.edu/events/index.cfm?Action=View&CalendarID=89&EventID=84274
Tuesday (15 March)
Kazakhstan: Political Developments and the Upcoming Presidential Elections
http://csis.org/event/kazakhstan-political-developments-and-upcoming-presidential-elections
Behind the Palace Doors: Five Centuries of Sex, Adventure, Vice, Treachery, and Folly from Royal Britain
http://www.politics-prose.com/event/book/michael-farquhar-behind-palace-doors
Answering the Iranian People's Call for Human Rights
http://www.niacouncil.org/site/Calendar?view=Detail&id=100721
Budget Hearing - Millennium Challenge Corporation - Chief Executive Officer
http://appropriations.house.gov/index.cfm?FuseAction=Hearings.Detail&HearingId=107&Month=3&Year=2011
Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force Tactical Aviation Programs
http://armedservices.house.gov/index.cfm/hearings?ContentRecord_id=b73ab24d-5237-4f91-a29b-ea944c1a8272&ContentType_id=14f995b9-dfa5-407a-9d35-56cc7152a7ed&Group_id=13e47ffa-0753-47a7-ad5e-1ba7592015c9
FY 2012 National Defense Authorization Budget Request for National Security Space Activities
http://armedservices.house.gov/index.cfm/hearings?ContentRecord_id=07c52ff8-a1ea-403c-aec9-2eb06f9e22b8&ContentType_id=14f995b9-dfa5-407a-9d35-56cc7152a7ed&Group_id=13e47ffa-0753-47a7-ad5e-1ba7592015c9
Europe 2020: Competitive or Complacent? Challenges and Opportunities for U.S. Business and Policy
http://www.sais-jhu.edu/calendar/
Canadian Views on Asia: Public Opinion, Mental Maps and Relations Across the Pacific
http://www.sais-jhu.edu/calendar/
Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
http://www.sais-jhu.edu/calendar/
New Media, Youth and Revolutions: What is Next for the Middle East?
http://www.american.edu/sis/calendar/index.cfm?d=03/15/2011
Collaborating, Learning and Adapting in Uganda: How One USAID Mission is Using Knowledge Management to Enhance Impact
http://web.memberclicks.com/mc/community/eventdetails.do?eventId=309743&orgId=wdcsid&recurringId=0
Can Trade Drive Development?
http://www.wilsoncenter.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=events.event_summary&event_id=679692
Iran Primer IV: Iran and Its Neighbors
http://www.wilsoncenter.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=events.event_summary&event_id=649998
Development Assistance, Refugees and Rebels in Latin America
http://events.georgetown.edu/events/index.cfm?Action=View&CalendarID=133&EventID=84479
Eurolegalism with R. Daniel Kelemen
http://events.georgetown.edu/events/index.cfm?Action=View&CalendarID=242&EventID=83999
Shifting Balance of Power: Has the U.S. Become the Largest Minority Shareholder in the Global Order?
http://www.brookings.edu/events/2011/0315_global_order.aspx
Global Energy Agenda For The 21st Century—A Statesman's Forum With Denmark's Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen
http://www.brookings.edu/events/2011/0315_denmark_energy.aspx
Book Event: Dead Reckoning: Memories of the 1971 Bangladesh War
http://www.wilsoncenter.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=events.event_summary&event_id=653997
Wednesday (16 March)
Budget Hearing - Army - Secretary of the Army and Chief of Staff of the Army
http://appropriations.house.gov/index.cfm?FuseAction=Hearings.Detail&HearingId=111&Month=3&Year=2011
Connected Capitalism and Opportunities for the United States
http://csis.org/event/connected-capitalism-and-opportunities-united-states
US-Syrian Relations: Changing Priorities After Egypt
http://www.mei.edu/Events/Calendar/tabid/504/vw/3/ItemID/325/d/20110316/Default.aspx
Application of Forensic Science to Intelligence Analysis
http://www.iwp.edu/events/detail/application-of-forensic-science-to-intelligence-analysis
The Agency for International Development and the Millennium Challenge Corporation:
Fiscal Year 2012 Budget Requests and Future Directions in Foreign Assistance
http://www.internationalrelations.house.gov/hearing_notice.asp?id=1228
Budget Hearing - United Nations and Other International Organizations - US Ambassador to the UN and Assistant Secretary for the International Organizations of Affairs
http://appropriations.house.gov/index.cfm?FuseAction=Hearings.Detail&HearingId=113&Month=3&Year=2011
U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations Nomination Hearing
http://foreign.senate.gov/hearings/hearing/?id=43285553-5056-a032-5275-d992268e20ac
USIBC Cocktail Reception with Dr. Rahul Khullar, Secretary, Ministry of Commerce & Industry
http://www.uschamber.com/events/usibc-hosts-cocktail-reception-featuring-dr-rahul-khullar-secretary-ministry-commerce-industr
Senator John Kerry on U.S. Policy Toward the Middle East
http://www.carnegieendowment.org/events/?fa=eventDetail&id=3161
Democratization in the Middle East?: Implications of the Arab Spring
http://www.foreignpolicyi.org/content/democratization-middle-east-implications-arab-spring
New Approaches to Mining and Development
http://www.sais-jhu.edu/calendar/
Young Professionals Workgroup in conjunctionwith Young Professionals in Foreign Policy Happy Hour
http://web.memberclicks.com/mc/community/eventdetails.do?eventId=311205&orgId=wdcsid&recurringId=0
U.S. Foreign Policy Toward South Asia
http://www.american.edu/sis/calendar/index.cfm?d=03/16/2011
A New Approach to Citizen Security in Brazil; Rio's Pacifying Police Units
http://www.wilsoncenter.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=events.event_summary&event_id=655855
The Middle East on Fire: What Happens Next?
http://www.wilsoncenter.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=events.event_summary&event_id=655343
Film Screening: When China Met Africa
http://www.wilsoncenter.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=events.event_summary&event_id=654234
Defense Challenges and Future Opportunities
http://www.brookings.edu/events/2011/0316_defense_challenges.aspx
Azerbaijan's Economic Modernization and the Post-Crisis Era
http://events.georgetown.edu/events/index.cfm?Action=View&CalendarID=91&EventID=84324
Ensuring Democracy through Written & Unwritten Constitutions
http://events.georgetown.edu/events/index.cfm?Action=View&CalendarID=86&EventID=83998
Nuclear Power Without Nuclear Proliferation
http://events.georgetown.edu/events/index.cfm?Action=View&CalendarID=242&EventID=83953
'Lion of the Desert' Screening
http://events.georgetown.edu/events/index.cfm?Action=View&CalendarID=106&EventID=84436
Religious Authority and Protests
http://events.georgetown.edu/events/index.cfm?Action=View&CalendarID=106&EventID=84453
Developments in Afghanistan
http://armedservices.house.gov/index.cfm/hearings?ContentRecord_id=d92e3d5d-ab4b-4a4d-85a8-aca05fdf6cd8&ContentType_id=14f995b9-dfa5-407a-9d35-56cc7152a7ed&Group_id=13e47ffa-0753-47a7-ad5e-1ba7592015c9&MonthDisplay=3&YearDisplay=2011
Amphibious Operations
http://armedservices.house.gov/index.cfm/hearings?ContentRecord_id=698da0b1-05d6-41d6-bd0d-c626fd81a204&ContentType_id=14f995b9-dfa5-407a-9d35-56cc7152a7ed&Group_id=13e47ffa-0753-47a7-ad5e-1ba7592015c9
2012 Budget Request from U.S. Cyber Command
http://armedservices.house.gov/index.cfm/hearings?ContentRecord_id=79ce7b4c-f88b-40bf-9540-efdb3a2d26b2&ContentType_id=14f995b9-dfa5-407a-9d35-56cc7152a7ed&Group_id=13e47ffa-0753-47a7-ad5e-1ba7592015c9
Thursday (17 March)
Who Governs the World?—The Evolving Roles of the G-8, the G-20, and the United Nations
http://www.stanleyfoundation.org/events.cfm?id=312
Live Working or Die Fighting: How the Working-Class Went Global
http://www.busboysandpoets.com/events.php
Reconsidering America's China Policy: Engaging Party and People
http://www.aei.org/event/100380
Civil Engagement Panel: An Exploration Of Civility At The Thin Edges Of Conflict
http://org2.democracyinaction.org/o/5456/c/479/p/salsa/event/common/public/?event_KEY=40359
The Domestic Politics of World Power, 1890-1945
http://www.loc.gov/loc/events/index.php#eventlist14
The Colombia and Panama Free Trade Agreements: National Security and Foreign Policy Priorities
http://www.internationalrelations.house.gov/hearing_notice.asp?id=1230
The Global Nuclear Revival and U.S. Nonproliferation Policy
http://www.internationalrelations.house.gov/hearing_notice.asp?id=1231
An Unlikely Weapon: The Eddie Adams Story
http://www.navymemorial.org/events/tabid/69/vw/3/itemid/13/d/20110317/An-Unlikely-Weapon-The-Eddie-Adams-Story.aspx
U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations
http://foreign.senate.gov/hearings/hearing/?id=1d3522fb-5056-a032-52c4-1baba36e31ad
Upheaval in the Middle East: A Discussion on the Current Situation and the Road to Reform
http://web.memberclicks.com/mc/community/eventdetails.do?eventId=309183&orgId=wdcsid&recurringId=0
The Eurozone Crisis: Stumbling toward Economic Government
http://events.georgetown.edu/events/index.cfm?Action=View&CalendarID=87&EventID=84270
Protecting populations at risk: whose responsibility is it?
http://events.georgetown.edu/events/index.cfm?Action=View&CalendarID=359&EventID=83375
Awakening a New Generation of Leaders in Africa
http://events.georgetown.edu/events/index.cfm?Action=View&CalendarID=141&EventID=84050
Book Discussion: The New Muslim Brotherhood in the West
http://www.wilsoncenter.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=events.event_summary&event_id=654848
Violent Partnership and Transitional Justice in Zimbabwe
http://www.sais-jhu.edu/calendar/
Soldier and Marine Equipment for Dismounted Operations
http://armedservices.house.gov/index.cfm/hearings?ContentRecord_id=12c8e0f9-fb41-406b-85c0-c2e184e6c8b7&ContentType_id=14f995b9-dfa5-407a-9d35-56cc7152a7ed&Group_id=13e47ffa-0753-47a7-ad5e-1ba7592015c9&MonthDisplay=3&YearDisplay=2011
Military Personnel Overview
http://armedservices.house.gov/index.cfm/hearings?ContentRecord_id=65f01ba7-7d7c-4f1c-8bd4-f10bfa1fdb4b&ContentType_id=14f995b9-dfa5-407a-9d35-56cc7152a7ed&Group_id=13e47ffa-0753-47a7-ad5e-1ba7592015c9
Law of War Detention and the President’s Executive Order Establishing Periodic Review Boards for Guantanamo Detainees
http://armedservices.house.gov/index.cfm/hearings?ContentRecord_id=5ac79dbc-5183-4339-bf53-c7f26a162410&ContentType_id=14f995b9-dfa5-407a-9d35-56cc7152a7ed&Group_id=13e47ffa-0753-47a7-ad5e-1ba7592015c9
Arms, Disarmament, and Influence: International Responses to the 2010 Nuclear Posture Review
http://cns.miis.edu/activities/pdfs/110317_nuclear_posture_review.pdf
Friday (18 March)
ICAR Information Session
http://icar.gmu.edu/event/10556
Creating a Place for the Future: Toward a New Development Approach for the Islamic Republic of Pakistan
http://www.cgdev.org/content/calendar/detail/1424897/
IMF High–Level Roundtable: Financial Crisis and Sovereign Risk: Implications for Financial Stability
http://www.imf.org/external/np/seminars/eng/2011/hlcfin/index.htm
Book Event: Ten African Heroes
http://www.iwp.edu/events/detail/book-event-ten-african-heroes
Cultural Center Film: Earth Keepers, Canada
http://events.iadb.org/calendar/eventDetail.aspx?lang=en&id=2822
From Popular Revolutions To Effective Reforms: The Georgian Experience—A Statesman’s Forum With Mikheil Saakashvili, President Of Georgia
http://www.brookings.edu/events/2011/0317_saakashvili.aspx
Are Immigrant Engineers and Programmers Really Outstanding?
http://events.georgetown.edu/events/index.cfm?Action=View&CalendarID=133&EventID=84313
Turkey's EU Membership: A Win-Win Case
http://www.sais-jhu.edu/calendar/
Basic Principles for the Rehabilitation of Azerbaijan's Post-Conflict Territories
http://www.sais-jhu.edu/calendar/
The Rise of India: What It Means for the United States
http://www.aei.org/event/100379
Virtual Hemispheric Forum: “Women’s leadership for a citizens’ democracy”
http://www.oas.org/en/events/calendar.asp
The Most Dangerous Man in America, a documentary on the Pentagon Papers and the life of Daniel Ellsberg
http://www.publicpolicy.umd.edu/events/2011-03-14
Building Capacity for Trade in Developing Countries
http://www.uschamber.com/events/building-capacity-trade-developing-countries
Challenges of Contemporary Portuguese Foreign Policy
http://www.sais-jhu.edu/calendar/
The Wall Street of China: Filmmaking in the Middle Kingdom
http://www.sais-jhu.edu/calendar/
Familiar Strangers: The Georgian Diaspora in the Multiethnic Soviet Empire
http://www.wilsoncenter.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=events.event_summary&event_id=651340
Book Launch: The Future Faces of War: Population and National Security
http://www.wilsoncenter.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=events.event_summary&event_id=651674
International Organizations and Taiwan
http://www.brookings.edu/events/2011/0314_taiwan.aspx
Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
http://events.georgetown.edu/events/index.cfm?Action=View&CalendarID=87&EventID=84267
Stephen Zunes: Nonviolent Action in Pro-Democracy Struggles
http://events.georgetown.edu/events/index.cfm?Action=View&CalendarID=89&EventID=84274
Tuesday (15 March)
Kazakhstan: Political Developments and the Upcoming Presidential Elections
http://csis.org/event/kazakhstan-political-developments-and-upcoming-presidential-elections
Behind the Palace Doors: Five Centuries of Sex, Adventure, Vice, Treachery, and Folly from Royal Britain
http://www.politics-prose.com/event/book/michael-farquhar-behind-palace-doors
Answering the Iranian People's Call for Human Rights
http://www.niacouncil.org/site/Calendar?view=Detail&id=100721
Budget Hearing - Millennium Challenge Corporation - Chief Executive Officer
http://appropriations.house.gov/index.cfm?FuseAction=Hearings.Detail&HearingId=107&Month=3&Year=2011
Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force Tactical Aviation Programs
http://armedservices.house.gov/index.cfm/hearings?ContentRecord_id=b73ab24d-5237-4f91-a29b-ea944c1a8272&ContentType_id=14f995b9-dfa5-407a-9d35-56cc7152a7ed&Group_id=13e47ffa-0753-47a7-ad5e-1ba7592015c9
FY 2012 National Defense Authorization Budget Request for National Security Space Activities
http://armedservices.house.gov/index.cfm/hearings?ContentRecord_id=07c52ff8-a1ea-403c-aec9-2eb06f9e22b8&ContentType_id=14f995b9-dfa5-407a-9d35-56cc7152a7ed&Group_id=13e47ffa-0753-47a7-ad5e-1ba7592015c9
Europe 2020: Competitive or Complacent? Challenges and Opportunities for U.S. Business and Policy
http://www.sais-jhu.edu/calendar/
Canadian Views on Asia: Public Opinion, Mental Maps and Relations Across the Pacific
http://www.sais-jhu.edu/calendar/
Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
http://www.sais-jhu.edu/calendar/
New Media, Youth and Revolutions: What is Next for the Middle East?
http://www.american.edu/sis/calendar/index.cfm?d=03/15/2011
Collaborating, Learning and Adapting in Uganda: How One USAID Mission is Using Knowledge Management to Enhance Impact
http://web.memberclicks.com/mc/community/eventdetails.do?eventId=309743&orgId=wdcsid&recurringId=0
Can Trade Drive Development?
http://www.wilsoncenter.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=events.event_summary&event_id=679692
Iran Primer IV: Iran and Its Neighbors
http://www.wilsoncenter.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=events.event_summary&event_id=649998
Development Assistance, Refugees and Rebels in Latin America
http://events.georgetown.edu/events/index.cfm?Action=View&CalendarID=133&EventID=84479
Eurolegalism with R. Daniel Kelemen
http://events.georgetown.edu/events/index.cfm?Action=View&CalendarID=242&EventID=83999
Shifting Balance of Power: Has the U.S. Become the Largest Minority Shareholder in the Global Order?
http://www.brookings.edu/events/2011/0315_global_order.aspx
Global Energy Agenda For The 21st Century—A Statesman's Forum With Denmark's Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen
http://www.brookings.edu/events/2011/0315_denmark_energy.aspx
Book Event: Dead Reckoning: Memories of the 1971 Bangladesh War
http://www.wilsoncenter.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=events.event_summary&event_id=653997
Wednesday (16 March)
Budget Hearing - Army - Secretary of the Army and Chief of Staff of the Army
http://appropriations.house.gov/index.cfm?FuseAction=Hearings.Detail&HearingId=111&Month=3&Year=2011
Connected Capitalism and Opportunities for the United States
http://csis.org/event/connected-capitalism-and-opportunities-united-states
US-Syrian Relations: Changing Priorities After Egypt
http://www.mei.edu/Events/Calendar/tabid/504/vw/3/ItemID/325/d/20110316/Default.aspx
Application of Forensic Science to Intelligence Analysis
http://www.iwp.edu/events/detail/application-of-forensic-science-to-intelligence-analysis
The Agency for International Development and the Millennium Challenge Corporation:
Fiscal Year 2012 Budget Requests and Future Directions in Foreign Assistance
http://www.internationalrelations.house.gov/hearing_notice.asp?id=1228
Budget Hearing - United Nations and Other International Organizations - US Ambassador to the UN and Assistant Secretary for the International Organizations of Affairs
http://appropriations.house.gov/index.cfm?FuseAction=Hearings.Detail&HearingId=113&Month=3&Year=2011
U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations Nomination Hearing
http://foreign.senate.gov/hearings/hearing/?id=43285553-5056-a032-5275-d992268e20ac
USIBC Cocktail Reception with Dr. Rahul Khullar, Secretary, Ministry of Commerce & Industry
http://www.uschamber.com/events/usibc-hosts-cocktail-reception-featuring-dr-rahul-khullar-secretary-ministry-commerce-industr
Senator John Kerry on U.S. Policy Toward the Middle East
http://www.carnegieendowment.org/events/?fa=eventDetail&id=3161
Democratization in the Middle East?: Implications of the Arab Spring
http://www.foreignpolicyi.org/content/democratization-middle-east-implications-arab-spring
New Approaches to Mining and Development
http://www.sais-jhu.edu/calendar/
Young Professionals Workgroup in conjunctionwith Young Professionals in Foreign Policy Happy Hour
http://web.memberclicks.com/mc/community/eventdetails.do?eventId=311205&orgId=wdcsid&recurringId=0
U.S. Foreign Policy Toward South Asia
http://www.american.edu/sis/calendar/index.cfm?d=03/16/2011
A New Approach to Citizen Security in Brazil; Rio's Pacifying Police Units
http://www.wilsoncenter.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=events.event_summary&event_id=655855
The Middle East on Fire: What Happens Next?
http://www.wilsoncenter.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=events.event_summary&event_id=655343
Film Screening: When China Met Africa
http://www.wilsoncenter.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=events.event_summary&event_id=654234
Defense Challenges and Future Opportunities
http://www.brookings.edu/events/2011/0316_defense_challenges.aspx
Azerbaijan's Economic Modernization and the Post-Crisis Era
http://events.georgetown.edu/events/index.cfm?Action=View&CalendarID=91&EventID=84324
Ensuring Democracy through Written & Unwritten Constitutions
http://events.georgetown.edu/events/index.cfm?Action=View&CalendarID=86&EventID=83998
Nuclear Power Without Nuclear Proliferation
http://events.georgetown.edu/events/index.cfm?Action=View&CalendarID=242&EventID=83953
'Lion of the Desert' Screening
http://events.georgetown.edu/events/index.cfm?Action=View&CalendarID=106&EventID=84436
Religious Authority and Protests
http://events.georgetown.edu/events/index.cfm?Action=View&CalendarID=106&EventID=84453
Developments in Afghanistan
http://armedservices.house.gov/index.cfm/hearings?ContentRecord_id=d92e3d5d-ab4b-4a4d-85a8-aca05fdf6cd8&ContentType_id=14f995b9-dfa5-407a-9d35-56cc7152a7ed&Group_id=13e47ffa-0753-47a7-ad5e-1ba7592015c9&MonthDisplay=3&YearDisplay=2011
Amphibious Operations
http://armedservices.house.gov/index.cfm/hearings?ContentRecord_id=698da0b1-05d6-41d6-bd0d-c626fd81a204&ContentType_id=14f995b9-dfa5-407a-9d35-56cc7152a7ed&Group_id=13e47ffa-0753-47a7-ad5e-1ba7592015c9
2012 Budget Request from U.S. Cyber Command
http://armedservices.house.gov/index.cfm/hearings?ContentRecord_id=79ce7b4c-f88b-40bf-9540-efdb3a2d26b2&ContentType_id=14f995b9-dfa5-407a-9d35-56cc7152a7ed&Group_id=13e47ffa-0753-47a7-ad5e-1ba7592015c9
Thursday (17 March)
Who Governs the World?—The Evolving Roles of the G-8, the G-20, and the United Nations
http://www.stanleyfoundation.org/events.cfm?id=312
Live Working or Die Fighting: How the Working-Class Went Global
http://www.busboysandpoets.com/events.php
Reconsidering America's China Policy: Engaging Party and People
http://www.aei.org/event/100380
Civil Engagement Panel: An Exploration Of Civility At The Thin Edges Of Conflict
http://org2.democracyinaction.org/o/5456/c/479/p/salsa/event/common/public/?event_KEY=40359
The Domestic Politics of World Power, 1890-1945
http://www.loc.gov/loc/events/index.php#eventlist14
The Colombia and Panama Free Trade Agreements: National Security and Foreign Policy Priorities
http://www.internationalrelations.house.gov/hearing_notice.asp?id=1230
The Global Nuclear Revival and U.S. Nonproliferation Policy
http://www.internationalrelations.house.gov/hearing_notice.asp?id=1231
An Unlikely Weapon: The Eddie Adams Story
http://www.navymemorial.org/events/tabid/69/vw/3/itemid/13/d/20110317/An-Unlikely-Weapon-The-Eddie-Adams-Story.aspx
U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations
http://foreign.senate.gov/hearings/hearing/?id=1d3522fb-5056-a032-52c4-1baba36e31ad
Upheaval in the Middle East: A Discussion on the Current Situation and the Road to Reform
http://web.memberclicks.com/mc/community/eventdetails.do?eventId=309183&orgId=wdcsid&recurringId=0
The Eurozone Crisis: Stumbling toward Economic Government
http://events.georgetown.edu/events/index.cfm?Action=View&CalendarID=87&EventID=84270
Protecting populations at risk: whose responsibility is it?
http://events.georgetown.edu/events/index.cfm?Action=View&CalendarID=359&EventID=83375
Awakening a New Generation of Leaders in Africa
http://events.georgetown.edu/events/index.cfm?Action=View&CalendarID=141&EventID=84050
Book Discussion: The New Muslim Brotherhood in the West
http://www.wilsoncenter.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=events.event_summary&event_id=654848
Violent Partnership and Transitional Justice in Zimbabwe
http://www.sais-jhu.edu/calendar/
Soldier and Marine Equipment for Dismounted Operations
http://armedservices.house.gov/index.cfm/hearings?ContentRecord_id=12c8e0f9-fb41-406b-85c0-c2e184e6c8b7&ContentType_id=14f995b9-dfa5-407a-9d35-56cc7152a7ed&Group_id=13e47ffa-0753-47a7-ad5e-1ba7592015c9&MonthDisplay=3&YearDisplay=2011
Military Personnel Overview
http://armedservices.house.gov/index.cfm/hearings?ContentRecord_id=65f01ba7-7d7c-4f1c-8bd4-f10bfa1fdb4b&ContentType_id=14f995b9-dfa5-407a-9d35-56cc7152a7ed&Group_id=13e47ffa-0753-47a7-ad5e-1ba7592015c9
Law of War Detention and the President’s Executive Order Establishing Periodic Review Boards for Guantanamo Detainees
http://armedservices.house.gov/index.cfm/hearings?ContentRecord_id=5ac79dbc-5183-4339-bf53-c7f26a162410&ContentType_id=14f995b9-dfa5-407a-9d35-56cc7152a7ed&Group_id=13e47ffa-0753-47a7-ad5e-1ba7592015c9
Arms, Disarmament, and Influence: International Responses to the 2010 Nuclear Posture Review
http://cns.miis.edu/activities/pdfs/110317_nuclear_posture_review.pdf
Friday (18 March)
ICAR Information Session
http://icar.gmu.edu/event/10556
Creating a Place for the Future: Toward a New Development Approach for the Islamic Republic of Pakistan
http://www.cgdev.org/content/calendar/detail/1424897/
IMF High–Level Roundtable: Financial Crisis and Sovereign Risk: Implications for Financial Stability
http://www.imf.org/external/np/seminars/eng/2011/hlcfin/index.htm
Book Event: Ten African Heroes
http://www.iwp.edu/events/detail/book-event-ten-african-heroes
Cultural Center Film: Earth Keepers, Canada
http://events.iadb.org/calendar/eventDetail.aspx?lang=en&id=2822
From Popular Revolutions To Effective Reforms: The Georgian Experience—A Statesman’s Forum With Mikheil Saakashvili, President Of Georgia
http://www.brookings.edu/events/2011/0317_saakashvili.aspx
Are Immigrant Engineers and Programmers Really Outstanding?
http://events.georgetown.edu/events/index.cfm?Action=View&CalendarID=133&EventID=84313
Turkey's EU Membership: A Win-Win Case
http://www.sais-jhu.edu/calendar/
Basic Principles for the Rehabilitation of Azerbaijan's Post-Conflict Territories
http://www.sais-jhu.edu/calendar/
Friday, March 11, 2011
Fed Event: March 17th, CISSM Forum
March 17, 2011, 12:15 PM -1:30 PM, CISSM Forum, Van Munching Atrium
SPECIAL EVENT: "A Conversation with the Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security"
by Jane Holl Lute, Deputy Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security
This CISSM Forum Special Event will be held in the Van Munching Hall Atrium.
Deputy Secretary Jane Holl Lute has over thirty years of military and senior executive experience in the United States government and at the heart of efforts to prevent and resolve international crises.
Ms. Lute served as Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations, responsible for support to peacekeeping operations. In this capacity, Ms. Lute managed operational support for the second-largest deployed military presence in the world. At the United Nations, Ms. Lute led rapid-response support to a wide variety of operations and crises in some of the most remote, austere, and dangerous environments in the world. She also effectively directed the growth of United Nations Peacekeeping support from a $1.8 billion to nearly $8 billion operation. Most recently, Ms. Lute led the United Nations initiative designed to coordinate efforts to build sustainable peace in countries emerging from violent conflict.
Prior to joining the United Nations, Ms. Lute served on the National Security Council staff under both President George H.W. Bush and President William Jefferson Clinton.
Ms. Lute was Executive Vice-President and Chief Operating Officer of the United Nations Foundation and the Better World Fund, the entities established to administer Ted Turner's $1 billion contribution to support the goals of the United Nations. She also headed the Carnegie Commission on Preventing Deadly Conflict and was a senior public policy fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.
Ms. Lute had a distinguished career in the United States Army, including service in the Gulf during Operation Desert Storm. Ms. Lute has a Ph.D. in political science from Stanford University, and a J.D. from Georgetown University.
SPECIAL EVENT: "A Conversation with the Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security"
by Jane Holl Lute, Deputy Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security
This CISSM Forum Special Event will be held in the Van Munching Hall Atrium.
Deputy Secretary Jane Holl Lute has over thirty years of military and senior executive experience in the United States government and at the heart of efforts to prevent and resolve international crises.
Ms. Lute served as Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations, responsible for support to peacekeeping operations. In this capacity, Ms. Lute managed operational support for the second-largest deployed military presence in the world. At the United Nations, Ms. Lute led rapid-response support to a wide variety of operations and crises in some of the most remote, austere, and dangerous environments in the world. She also effectively directed the growth of United Nations Peacekeeping support from a $1.8 billion to nearly $8 billion operation. Most recently, Ms. Lute led the United Nations initiative designed to coordinate efforts to build sustainable peace in countries emerging from violent conflict.
Prior to joining the United Nations, Ms. Lute served on the National Security Council staff under both President George H.W. Bush and President William Jefferson Clinton.
Ms. Lute was Executive Vice-President and Chief Operating Officer of the United Nations Foundation and the Better World Fund, the entities established to administer Ted Turner's $1 billion contribution to support the goals of the United Nations. She also headed the Carnegie Commission on Preventing Deadly Conflict and was a senior public policy fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.
Ms. Lute had a distinguished career in the United States Army, including service in the Gulf during Operation Desert Storm. Ms. Lute has a Ph.D. in political science from Stanford University, and a J.D. from Georgetown University.
Fed Events: Conferences Listed Below
National Community Reinvestment Coalition’s Conference
April 13-16, 2011
Washington
Join us for an exciting line-up of keynote speakers, plenaries, workshops and hands-on trainings, in addition to GREAT NETWORKING OPPORTUNITIES with the nation’s leaders in government, academia, and community affairs and non-profits.
This year’s conference promises to be one of the best yet and of great value to students and academic professionals! Students receive a special rate of only $40!
Learn how new and emerging policies will impact the nation’s housing market, jobs and small businesses, and consumer rights and protections. Join us for an exciting four-day program, featuring training, networking, and exciting plenary sessions. Here are just a few forums that you’ll find enlightening:
¦ Affordable Housing and the Future of the GSEs
¦ Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Update & Regulatory Reform Briefing
¦ CRA Expansion: Statutory & Regulatory Reforms to Increase Access to Credit and Capital for All Americans
¦ The Future of Mortgages: New protections, new restrictions?
To register and view the full conference agenda,
Follow this link: http://bit.ly/2011NCRCconf
Conference on Post-Disaster Recovery
The Area Studies Programs at the Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs, in collaboration with Syracuse Cares, a student-led awareness raising campaign, are hosting a conference on post-disaster recovery to bring into focus the recent disasters that have wreaked havoc in many parts of the world—the southern US, Haiti, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Southeast Asia, Brazil, and most recently, Australia. The conference is scheduled to be held April 15, 2011 at Syracuse University.
Through this one day conference, we hope to bring together scholars and practitioners of post-disaster recovery to elucidate the commonalities and differences among these events and how we can best plan for and mitigate the effects of these devastating events. We have selected four overarching themes for the conference:
1. 1. Climate change and disasters
2. 2. Role of faith based organizations in post-disaster recovery
3. 3. Media coverage of disasters and disaster recovery
4. 4. Post-disaster recovery and humanitarian assistance, both governmental and non-governmental
We invite faculty and graduate student to submit abstracts that speak to one or more of these themes. Abstracts should be submitted by March 11, 2011 as a Microsoft Word document (.doc or .docx) by email to Emera Bridger Wilson at elbridge@maxwell.syr.edu. Please include your name and affiliation. The abstract should not exceed 250 words. Each selected participant will be asked to give a 20 minute presentation on the day of the conference.
For further information, please contact:
Emera Bridger Wilson, Outreach Coordinator, South Asia Center, Moynihan Institute: elbridge@maxwell.syr.edu
Cosponsored by: Moynihan European Research Centers, South Asia Center, Middle East Studies Program, East Asia Program, Korean Peninsula Affairs Program, Program on Latin America and the Carribean, Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs, International Relations Student Association (IRSA), Association for Public Diplomacy Scholars (APDS)
April 13-16, 2011
Washington
Join us for an exciting line-up of keynote speakers, plenaries, workshops and hands-on trainings, in addition to GREAT NETWORKING OPPORTUNITIES with the nation’s leaders in government, academia, and community affairs and non-profits.
This year’s conference promises to be one of the best yet and of great value to students and academic professionals! Students receive a special rate of only $40!
Learn how new and emerging policies will impact the nation’s housing market, jobs and small businesses, and consumer rights and protections. Join us for an exciting four-day program, featuring training, networking, and exciting plenary sessions. Here are just a few forums that you’ll find enlightening:
¦ Affordable Housing and the Future of the GSEs
¦ Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Update & Regulatory Reform Briefing
¦ CRA Expansion: Statutory & Regulatory Reforms to Increase Access to Credit and Capital for All Americans
¦ The Future of Mortgages: New protections, new restrictions?
To register and view the full conference agenda,
Follow this link: http://bit.ly/2011NCRCconf
Conference on Post-Disaster Recovery
The Area Studies Programs at the Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs, in collaboration with Syracuse Cares, a student-led awareness raising campaign, are hosting a conference on post-disaster recovery to bring into focus the recent disasters that have wreaked havoc in many parts of the world—the southern US, Haiti, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Southeast Asia, Brazil, and most recently, Australia. The conference is scheduled to be held April 15, 2011 at Syracuse University.
Through this one day conference, we hope to bring together scholars and practitioners of post-disaster recovery to elucidate the commonalities and differences among these events and how we can best plan for and mitigate the effects of these devastating events. We have selected four overarching themes for the conference:
1. 1. Climate change and disasters
2. 2. Role of faith based organizations in post-disaster recovery
3. 3. Media coverage of disasters and disaster recovery
4. 4. Post-disaster recovery and humanitarian assistance, both governmental and non-governmental
We invite faculty and graduate student to submit abstracts that speak to one or more of these themes. Abstracts should be submitted by March 11, 2011 as a Microsoft Word document (.doc or .docx) by email to Emera Bridger Wilson at elbridge@maxwell.syr.edu. Please include your name and affiliation. The abstract should not exceed 250 words. Each selected participant will be asked to give a 20 minute presentation on the day of the conference.
For further information, please contact:
Emera Bridger Wilson, Outreach Coordinator, South Asia Center, Moynihan Institute: elbridge@maxwell.syr.edu
Cosponsored by: Moynihan European Research Centers, South Asia Center, Middle East Studies Program, East Asia Program, Korean Peninsula Affairs Program, Program on Latin America and the Carribean, Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs, International Relations Student Association (IRSA), Association for Public Diplomacy Scholars (APDS)
Thursday, March 10, 2011
"Crossroads: The Interplay of Business, Government, and the Global Economy"
The George Washington University School of Business presents "Crossroads: The Interplay of Business, Government, and the Global Economy"
March 31 and April 1, 2011, Jack Morton Auditorium, 805 21st Street NW
The symposium will explore the delicate balance of business growth and the public’s well-being within the context of an international economy that is defined by widely varying markets, cultures, and people. Panels will investigate what shared responsibilities, if any, exist between governments and the global business community and whether markets exist in a vacuum or within a larger social context.
Registration
Please click here to register. For more information on the event, please visit www.gwsbcrossroads.com
Featured Speakers:
Keynote: Justin Yifu Lin, Chief Economist and Senior Vice President of Development Economics, World Bank
Timothy Williams, Washington Director, INTERPOL (U.S. National Central Bureau)
Steven Pearlstein, Pulitzer Prize winning columnist, Washington Post
Rob Mosbacher, former President/CEO, Overseas Private Investment Corporation
Nelson Carbonell, President/Chairman, Snowbird Capital
Danny Leipziger, Vice President for Poverty Reduction and Economic Management(PREM)/Head of the PREM Network, World Bank, Professor of International Business, The George Washington University School of Business
Doug Guthrie, Dean, The George Washington University School of Business
Sudhir Venkatesh, Professor of Sociology, Columbia University, author of Off the Books: The Underground Economy of the Urban Poor
Keith Reinhard, Founder/President, Business for Diplomatic Action, Chairman, DDB Worldwide
Liesl Riddle, Professor of International Business and Associate Dean of MBA Programs, The George Washington University School of Business
Dilip Ratha, Senior Economist and Manager, World Bank
William Handorf, Vice President of the Board of Directors, Federal Home Loan Bank of Atlanta, Professor of Finance and Real Estate, The George Washington University School of Business
Daniel Runde, Director for Project on Prosperity and Development and William A. Schreyer Chair in Global Analysis, Center for Strategic and International Studies
Barbara Span, Vice President of Public Affairs, Western Union
Eric-Vincent Guichard, Chairman/CEO, GRAVITAS Capital Advisors
Ntoh Etta, Director of Strategic Projects, NetworkSolutions LLC
…and more to come!
March 31 and April 1, 2011, Jack Morton Auditorium, 805 21st Street NW
The symposium will explore the delicate balance of business growth and the public’s well-being within the context of an international economy that is defined by widely varying markets, cultures, and people. Panels will investigate what shared responsibilities, if any, exist between governments and the global business community and whether markets exist in a vacuum or within a larger social context.
Registration
Please click here to register. For more information on the event, please visit www.gwsbcrossroads.com
Featured Speakers:
Keynote: Justin Yifu Lin, Chief Economist and Senior Vice President of Development Economics, World Bank
Timothy Williams, Washington Director, INTERPOL (U.S. National Central Bureau)
Steven Pearlstein, Pulitzer Prize winning columnist, Washington Post
Rob Mosbacher, former President/CEO, Overseas Private Investment Corporation
Nelson Carbonell, President/Chairman, Snowbird Capital
Danny Leipziger, Vice President for Poverty Reduction and Economic Management(PREM)/Head of the PREM Network, World Bank, Professor of International Business, The George Washington University School of Business
Doug Guthrie, Dean, The George Washington University School of Business
Sudhir Venkatesh, Professor of Sociology, Columbia University, author of Off the Books: The Underground Economy of the Urban Poor
Keith Reinhard, Founder/President, Business for Diplomatic Action, Chairman, DDB Worldwide
Liesl Riddle, Professor of International Business and Associate Dean of MBA Programs, The George Washington University School of Business
Dilip Ratha, Senior Economist and Manager, World Bank
William Handorf, Vice President of the Board of Directors, Federal Home Loan Bank of Atlanta, Professor of Finance and Real Estate, The George Washington University School of Business
Daniel Runde, Director for Project on Prosperity and Development and William A. Schreyer Chair in Global Analysis, Center for Strategic and International Studies
Barbara Span, Vice President of Public Affairs, Western Union
Eric-Vincent Guichard, Chairman/CEO, GRAVITAS Capital Advisors
Ntoh Etta, Director of Strategic Projects, NetworkSolutions LLC
…and more to come!
Fed Event: March 15th, 12:15 PM, "Geo-Engineering the Climate: Part of the Solution (Or Part of the Problem)?"
Please join us for the Tuesday Policy Forum on March 15th featuring Dr. Steven J. Smith, senior scientist, Joint Global Change Research Institute. He will be speaking on the topic, "Geo-Engineering the Climate: Part of the Solution (Or Part of the Problem)?"
The Forum will be held in Room 1203 Van Munching Hall, 12:15-1:30 PM.
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Dr. Steven J. Smith is a senior scientist at the Joint Global Change Research Institute in College Park, MD (JGCRI; Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and the University of Maryland). His research focuses on long-term socio-economic scenarios and the interface between socio-economic systems and the climate system in the areas of aerosols/greenhouse gases, energy efficiency, renewable energy, the carbon-cycle, and land-use changes. Recent research includes: examination of the role of non-CO2 forcing agents in policy scenarios, including sulfate aerosols, historical sulfur dioxide emissions, black carbon, and non-CO2 greenhouse gases, and analysis of the role of renewable energy and energy efficiency in meeting greenhouse gas emission goals. Smith was one of the developers of the ObjECTS object-oriented modeling framework used at JGCRI and a lead author for the IPCC Special Report on Emissions Scenarios. He received his PhD in physics from the University of California at Los Angeles.
The Forum will be held in Room 1203 Van Munching Hall, 12:15-1:30 PM.
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Dr. Steven J. Smith is a senior scientist at the Joint Global Change Research Institute in College Park, MD (JGCRI; Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and the University of Maryland). His research focuses on long-term socio-economic scenarios and the interface between socio-economic systems and the climate system in the areas of aerosols/greenhouse gases, energy efficiency, renewable energy, the carbon-cycle, and land-use changes. Recent research includes: examination of the role of non-CO2 forcing agents in policy scenarios, including sulfate aerosols, historical sulfur dioxide emissions, black carbon, and non-CO2 greenhouse gases, and analysis of the role of renewable energy and energy efficiency in meeting greenhouse gas emission goals. Smith was one of the developers of the ObjECTS object-oriented modeling framework used at JGCRI and a lead author for the IPCC Special Report on Emissions Scenarios. He received his PhD in physics from the University of California at Los Angeles.
Wednesday, March 9, 2011
Fed Event: Friday, 12:15 PM, March Comes in Like a Lion – The ESA and the African Lion
Environmental Policy Roundtable
March Comes in Like a Lion – The ESA and the African Lion
Friday, March 11, 2011Room 1107 Van Munching Hall, 12:15 - 1:30pm
Jennifer Place, MS/MPP 2011 will present her work with the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) on a petition to list the African lion on the Endangered Species List. Through her work with IFAW and the rest of the African lion coalition (including the Humane Society, Born Free Foundation, and Defenders of Wildlife), she served as first author, coordinator, and primary editor of the petition. Jennifer has been a policy analyst intern at IFAW since June 2009, where she has done a great deal of research including the status of the African lion and major threats to the species today.
We look forward to seeing you at our discussion.
Best,
Your EESG Team
******The Ecological Economics Student Group (EESG) is a student-organized forum for the presentation and discussion of ideas and new work within the broad domain of Ecological Economics and interdisciplinary environmental policy. This seminar is also offered for 1 credit as 'Ecological Economics and Development' (MEES 608N).EESG is on facebook! http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=lf#!/group.php?gid=112404058770759&ref=ts
Fed Event: Revolutions in the Middle East
Revolutions in the Middle East
Friday, March 11th, Noon, Anne Arundel Hall
Professor Shibley Telhami, Anwar Sadat professor for Peace and Development at the University of Maryland, will speak on the uprising in the Arab world and their implications for the region and for the United States. Telhami, who has been conducting Arab public opinion surveys for over a decade, has just returned from Egypt and Tunsia with fresh insights into the revolutions in these countries.
Friday, March 11th, Noon, Anne Arundel Hall
Professor Shibley Telhami, Anwar Sadat professor for Peace and Development at the University of Maryland, will speak on the uprising in the Arab world and their implications for the region and for the United States. Telhami, who has been conducting Arab public opinion surveys for over a decade, has just returned from Egypt and Tunsia with fresh insights into the revolutions in these countries.
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
UPDATE: Wednesday March 9 Panel
Our speakers from the Dept. of Veterans Affairs have changed. Below are bios for the two VA speakers who will come to campus Wednesday, March 9. Cheryl Ndunguru from OPM will also join. (See original post here.)
Known throughout the military blogosphere as “GI Kate,” Kate Hoit was born and raised in Albany, New York. She joined the U.S. Army Reserve at 17 and served for eight years—including time as an Army photojournalist in Balad, Iraq from 2004 – 2005 with the 301st Area Support Group out of Queens. In addition to maintaining the blog GIKate.com, her work has appeared in the New York Times (at The Caucus: The Politics and Government Blog of The Times), The Huffington Post, and VetVoice. She has appeared in the History Channel documentary special Band of Bloggers and has worked on a documentary film about women in the military. Kate recently graduated from the State University of New York at Albany with a BA in Journalism.
As a New Media Specialist for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Alex Horton is the primary writer for the Department’s official blog. He is best known as “Army of Dude,” the title of his blog and nom de guerre as an enlisted infantryman at Fort Lewis, Washington. He deployed to Iraq in 2006 with the Third Stryker Brigade, Second Infantry Division for a fifteen month tour, where his unit saw some of the heaviest fighting during the troop surge in 2007 in Baghdad and Baqubah, Diyala Province. Along with his writing at Army of Dude, Alex’s work has been published in the St. Petersburg Times and he has been profiled by CNN, BBC, Los Angeles Times, Dallas Morning News, The Economist and several NPR affiliates. His blog has been twice nominated for military blog of the year. Prior to arriving at VA, Alex was a student majoring in global studies in Austin, Texas.
Known throughout the military blogosphere as “GI Kate,” Kate Hoit was born and raised in Albany, New York. She joined the U.S. Army Reserve at 17 and served for eight years—including time as an Army photojournalist in Balad, Iraq from 2004 – 2005 with the 301st Area Support Group out of Queens. In addition to maintaining the blog GIKate.com, her work has appeared in the New York Times (at The Caucus: The Politics and Government Blog of The Times), The Huffington Post, and VetVoice. She has appeared in the History Channel documentary special Band of Bloggers and has worked on a documentary film about women in the military. Kate recently graduated from the State University of New York at Albany with a BA in Journalism.
As a New Media Specialist for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Alex Horton is the primary writer for the Department’s official blog. He is best known as “Army of Dude,” the title of his blog and nom de guerre as an enlisted infantryman at Fort Lewis, Washington. He deployed to Iraq in 2006 with the Third Stryker Brigade, Second Infantry Division for a fifteen month tour, where his unit saw some of the heaviest fighting during the troop surge in 2007 in Baghdad and Baqubah, Diyala Province. Along with his writing at Army of Dude, Alex’s work has been published in the St. Petersburg Times and he has been profiled by CNN, BBC, Los Angeles Times, Dallas Morning News, The Economist and several NPR affiliates. His blog has been twice nominated for military blog of the year. Prior to arriving at VA, Alex was a student majoring in global studies in Austin, Texas.
Fed Event: March 14th at 6:30 PM
Nonproliferation Policy Education Center will be holding March 14th for students that may be interested in the topic of nuclear energy economics.
Please join us at an NPEC-sponsored book release
Nuclear Power's Global Expansion: Weighing Its Costs and Risks
Date: Monday, March 14, 2011
Time: 6:30 pm - 8:30 PM
Location: Rayburn House Office Building, B-369
Address: 45 Independence Avenue, SW
Refreshments will be served
Attire: Business or Business Casual
Copies of Nuclear Power's Global Expansion: Weighing Its Costs and Risks will be available.
To RSVP, please contact Shannon Traylor by email (shannon@npolicy.org) or telephone (571-970-3187).
Please join us at an NPEC-sponsored book release
Nuclear Power's Global Expansion: Weighing Its Costs and Risks
Date: Monday, March 14, 2011
Time: 6:30 pm - 8:30 PM
Location: Rayburn House Office Building, B-369
Address: 45 Independence Avenue, SW
Refreshments will be served
Attire: Business or Business Casual
Copies of Nuclear Power's Global Expansion: Weighing Its Costs and Risks will be available.
To RSVP, please contact Shannon Traylor by email (shannon@npolicy.org) or telephone (571-970-3187).
Current Maryland Secretary of Labor and Regulation; Current President of Washington Grantmakers; Fromer Maryland Secretary of Health; and Former Feder
Professor Betty Duke and Professor Grimm have organized an exciting evening panel of stellar public and nonprofit leaders for this Thursday, March 10th at 7pm.
The panel is in conjunction with our graduate courses in public and nonprofit management and leadership and I have even convinced Prof. Duke to serve on the panel given her impressive leadership career. The panel includes the current Secretary of Labor, Licensing and Regulation for the State of Maryland who is also the former Senior Vice President at United Way of America; the current President of the Regional Association of Washington Grantmakers (100 largest foundations and philanthropists in our region) who is also the former President of a national nonprofit Voice’s for America’s Children and a former Virginia state government official; the former Secretary of Health and Mental Hygiene for the State of Maryland and former Assistant Secretary at the federal Departments of Health and Human Services and Veterans Affairs; and the former Administrator of the Health Resources and Services Administration, an eight billion dollar federal agency that worked extensively with nonprofits through its grantmaking.
Public and nonprofit leaders need to be very adept at managing cross-sector collaborations with various levels of government and with nonprofits to achieve any real impact but the relationship between governments as well as government and nonprofits is fraught with challenges on both sides. Our panelists representing the public and nonprofit sectors as well as federal, state and local experiences will discuss challenges they have faced, lessons they have learned, and how these experiences shape their approach to leadership.
The panel will be in Executive Dining Room (directly above Rudy’s Café) in Van Munching Hall from 7:00-9:00pm and will include time for you to network with the panelists.
Food and drink will be provided, so come a little early if you can!
Tamara Copeland - Bio link: http://www.washingtongrantmakers.org/s_wash/sec.asp?CID=4503&DID=9275
Betty Duke, Bio Link: http://www.publicpolicy.umd.edu/directory/duke
Tony McCann, Bio link: http://www.msa.md.gov/msa/mdmanual/16dhmh/former/html/msa14328.html
Alex Sanchez, Bio link: http://www.msa.md.gov/msa/mdmanual/20dllr/html/msa15216.html
Federal Event Announcements
Wednesday (09 March)
GMU Peace Ops- Hot Stabilization: The Myth and the Reality of Stabilization in the Helmand River Valley
http://www.ccoportal.org/event/gmu-peace-ops-hot-stabilization-myth-and-reality-stabilization-helmand-river-valley
China's Indigenous Innovation Trade and Investment Policies: How Great a Threat?
http://www.internationalrelations.house.gov/hearings.asp?showdate=3/9/2011
Stimson Center Chairman’s Forum with Senator Lindsey Graham
http://www.stimson.org/events/chairmans-forum/
Rebalancing Growth in Asia: Economic Dimensions for China
http://www.imf.org/external/np/exr/BForums/2011/030911.htm
Volunteerism: Be the Change You Want to See at Home and Abroad
http://www.howard.edu/calendar/main.php?calendarid=default&view=event&eventid=1298909204212&timebegin=2011-03-09+00%3A00%3A00
The MISTRY* of PSYOP: Putting MISO in Perspective
http://www.iwp.edu/events/detail/the-mistry-of-psyop-putting-miso-in-perspective
US/Mexico Border Counties Coalition
http://press.org/events/usmexico-border-counties-coalition
The Promotion of Sustainable Mining and Energy Activities in Peru
http://www.elliottschool.org/events/calendar.cfm?fuseaction=ViewMonthDetail&yr=2011&mon=3#1482
Remembering Indonesia's War of Independence: Identity, Politics, and Military History
http://www.elliottschool.org/events/calendar.cfm?fuseaction=ViewMonthDetail&yr=2011&mon=3#1427
Rock and Roll, Disco Mafia, and the Collapse of Communism
http://www.elliottschool.org/events/calendar.cfm?fuseaction=ViewMonthDetail&yr=2011&mon=3#1430
Budget Hearing - Department of Treasury International Programs - Secretary of Treasuryhttp://appropriations.house.gov/index.cfm?FuseAction=Hearings.Detail&HearingId=79&Month=3&Year=2011
Budget Hearing - Navy and Marine Corps - Secretary of the Navy, Chief of Naval Operations, Commandant of the Marine Corps
http://appropriations.house.gov/index.cfm?FuseAction=Hearings.Detail&HearingId=72&Month=3&Year=2011
Army Modernization
http://armedservices.house.gov/index.cfm/hearings?ContentRecord_id=25dfdd36-6ecf-4e18-9a59-21c9917095bd&ContentType_id=14f995b9-dfa5-407a-9d35-56cc7152a7ed&Group_id=13e47ffa-0753-47a7-ad5e-1ba7592015c9
Navy Shipbuilding Acquisition Programs and Budget Requirements
http://armedservices.house.gov/index.cfm/hearings?ContentRecord_id=c0d78baa-c1f8-4d82-9fc7-6858b869a3bc&ContentType_id=14f995b9-dfa5-407a-9d35-56cc7152a7ed&Group_id=13e47ffa-0753-47a7-ad5e-1ba7592015c9
The Egyptian Uprising: Context and Contestation
http://www.sais-jhu.edu/calendar/
Growing Green in a Crowded, Carbon-Constrained World
http://www.sais-jhu.edu/calendar/
U.S. Policy Toward Human Rights in Russia: A Critique
http://www.sais-jhu.edu/calendar/
Reviewing the Obama-Calderon Meeting
http://www.sais-jhu.edu/calendar/
Playing Our Game: Why China's Industrial Rise Doesn't Threaten the West
http://www.sais-jhu.edu/calendar/
A Regional Approach to Regional Problems: Prospects for OSCE - CICA Cooperation
http://csis.org/event/regional-approach-regional-problems-prospects-osce-cica-cooperation
Why SE Asia will be the Cockpit of 21st Century Geopolitics
http://events.georgetown.edu/events/index.cfm?Action=View&CalendarID=86&EventID=84028
Book Presentation: Bosnia Remade: Ethnic Cleansing and Its Reversal http://www.wilsoncenter.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=events.event_summary&event_id=649663
Oscar-Nominated Documentary: "Waste Land" http://www.wilsoncenter.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=events.event_summary&event_id=655020
Tunisia’s Democratic Transition: Challenges & Perspectives http://www.wilsoncenter.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=events.event_summary&event_id=654317
Green Governance Victories and Ongoing Challenges in China
http://www.wilsoncenter.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=events.event_summary&event_id=654240
Thursday (10 March)
Lessons of the "Arab Spring"
http://www.aei.org/event/100378
North Korea’s Sea of Fire: Bullying, Brinkmanship and Blackmail
http://www.internationalrelations.house.gov/hearing_notice.asp?id=1224
Assessing U.S. Foreign Policy Priorities and Needs Amidst Economic Challenges in the Middle East
http://www.internationalrelations.house.gov/hearing_notice.asp?id=1225
Overview of U.S. Relations with Europe and Eurasia
http://www.internationalrelations.house.gov/hearings.asp?showdate=3/10/2011
A Preview of President Obama's Latin America Trip: The Ambassadors Speak
http://www.heritage.org/Events/2011/03/Latin-America
Discussion on "The Coming Revolution: Struggle for Freedom in the Middle East"
http://www.iwp.edu/events/detail/discussion-on-the-coming-revolution-struggle-for-freedom-in-the-middle-east
Popular Revolt in Yemen: Implications for Democracy and US Foreign Policy
http://www.mei.edu/Events/Calendar/tabid/504/vw/3/ItemID/324/d/20110310/Default.aspx
Bloodlands: Europe between Hitler and Stalin
http://www.elliottschool.org/events/calendar.cfm?fuseaction=ViewMonthDetail&yr=2011&mon=3#1461
Targeting Arab Cities: Military and Architectural Expertise and the Moralization of the Politics of Empire
http://www.elliottschool.org/events/calendar.cfm?fuseaction=ViewMonthDetail&yr=2011&mon=3#1470
Global Challenges to Readiness
http://armedservices.house.gov/index.cfm/hearings?ContentRecord_id=fcb82772-f47f-4cb1-b2b8-d1c8117430d5&ContentType_id=14f995b9-dfa5-407a-9d35-56cc7152a7ed&Group_id=13e47ffa-0753-47a7-ad5e-1ba7592015c9
Political Upheaval in the Maghreb: Paths and Choices
http://www.sais-jhu.edu/calendar/
Testimony on the current and future worldwide threats to the national security of the United States
http://armed-services.senate.gov/e_witnesslist.cfm?id=5038
The View from the Field: Country-led Development and Implications for Donor Coordination
http://www.sidw.org/mc/community/eventdetails.do?eventId=305815&orgId=wdcsid&recurringId=0
Greening the Way: New Technology Helps Mexico Keep Climate Change Commitments
http://www.sidw.org/mc/community/eventdetails.do?eventId=306534&orgId=wdcsid&recurringId=0
Dennis Gormley, Senior Fellow, Monterey Institute's Center for Nonproliferation Studies
http://www.publicpolicy.umd.edu/events/238
Dialogues With Mexico: Sergio Aguayo Quezada Book Launch:Vuelta en U and La Transición Mexicana: Una Historia Documental, 1910-2010 http://www.wilsoncenter.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=events.event_summary&event_id=654368
Brazil in Regional and Global History http://www.wilsoncenter.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=events.event_summary&event_id=654318
Russia's Cold War: From the October Revolution to the Fall of the Wall
http://www.wilsoncenter.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=events.event_summary&event_id=651738
Friday (11 March)
Rebuilding America: The Role of Foreign Capital, Sovereign Wealth Funds and Global Public Investors
http://www.brookings.edu/events/2011/0311_sovereign_wealth.aspx
Rising Oil Prices and Dependence on Hostile Regimes: The Urgent Case for Canadian Oil
http://www.internationalrelations.house.gov/hearings.asp?showdate=3/11/2011
Washington Area International Trade Symposium (WAITS)
http://www.elliottschool.org/events/calendar.cfm?fuseaction=ViewMonthDetail&yr=2011&mon=3#1480
The Annual U.S. - Global Leadership Project: Development, Diplomacy, and Defense
http://www.meridian.org/index.php?option=com_events&type=event&task=details&id=54&Itemid=8
Counterproliferation Strategy for the Defense Threat Reduction Agency and Chemical Biological Defense Program
http://armedservices.house.gov/index.cfm/hearings?ContentRecord_id=d29f2175-64bf-40db-963a-4cfa411475f2&ContentType_id=14f995b9-dfa5-407a-9d35-56cc7152a7ed&Group_id=13e47ffa-0753-47a7-ad5e-1ba7592015c9
Promoting Diplomacy Through Science
http://www.sais-jhu.edu/calendar/
Reasonable Expectations: Civil Society as Peacemaker - Findings From a Multi-Country Study
http://www.sais-jhu.edu/calendar/
Fault Lines in Global Health Debate
http://csis.org/event/fault-lines-global-health
Greece’s Financial Crisis and the Future of the Euro http://www.wilsoncenter.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=events.event_summary&event_id=655545
The Conflict Prevention & Resolution Forum Presents: Reasonable Expectations: Civil Society as Peacemaker
http://www.wilsoncenter.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=events.event_summary&event_id=655511
Solidarity With Solidarity: Western European Trade Unions and the Polish Crisis, 1980-1982
http://www.wilsoncenter.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=events.event_summary&event_id=651747
The Current State of Civil Society as a Reflection of the Paradoxes of Modern-Day Russia
http://www.wilsoncenter.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=events.event_summary&event_id=651336
GMU Peace Ops- Hot Stabilization: The Myth and the Reality of Stabilization in the Helmand River Valley
http://www.ccoportal.org/event/gmu-peace-ops-hot-stabilization-myth-and-reality-stabilization-helmand-river-valley
China's Indigenous Innovation Trade and Investment Policies: How Great a Threat?
http://www.internationalrelations.house.gov/hearings.asp?showdate=3/9/2011
Stimson Center Chairman’s Forum with Senator Lindsey Graham
http://www.stimson.org/events/chairmans-forum/
Rebalancing Growth in Asia: Economic Dimensions for China
http://www.imf.org/external/np/exr/BForums/2011/030911.htm
Volunteerism: Be the Change You Want to See at Home and Abroad
http://www.howard.edu/calendar/main.php?calendarid=default&view=event&eventid=1298909204212&timebegin=2011-03-09+00%3A00%3A00
The MISTRY* of PSYOP: Putting MISO in Perspective
http://www.iwp.edu/events/detail/the-mistry-of-psyop-putting-miso-in-perspective
US/Mexico Border Counties Coalition
http://press.org/events/usmexico-border-counties-coalition
The Promotion of Sustainable Mining and Energy Activities in Peru
http://www.elliottschool.org/events/calendar.cfm?fuseaction=ViewMonthDetail&yr=2011&mon=3#1482
Remembering Indonesia's War of Independence: Identity, Politics, and Military History
http://www.elliottschool.org/events/calendar.cfm?fuseaction=ViewMonthDetail&yr=2011&mon=3#1427
Rock and Roll, Disco Mafia, and the Collapse of Communism
http://www.elliottschool.org/events/calendar.cfm?fuseaction=ViewMonthDetail&yr=2011&mon=3#1430
Budget Hearing - Department of Treasury International Programs - Secretary of Treasuryhttp://appropriations.house.gov/index.cfm?FuseAction=Hearings.Detail&HearingId=79&Month=3&Year=2011
Budget Hearing - Navy and Marine Corps - Secretary of the Navy, Chief of Naval Operations, Commandant of the Marine Corps
http://appropriations.house.gov/index.cfm?FuseAction=Hearings.Detail&HearingId=72&Month=3&Year=2011
Army Modernization
http://armedservices.house.gov/index.cfm/hearings?ContentRecord_id=25dfdd36-6ecf-4e18-9a59-21c9917095bd&ContentType_id=14f995b9-dfa5-407a-9d35-56cc7152a7ed&Group_id=13e47ffa-0753-47a7-ad5e-1ba7592015c9
Navy Shipbuilding Acquisition Programs and Budget Requirements
http://armedservices.house.gov/index.cfm/hearings?ContentRecord_id=c0d78baa-c1f8-4d82-9fc7-6858b869a3bc&ContentType_id=14f995b9-dfa5-407a-9d35-56cc7152a7ed&Group_id=13e47ffa-0753-47a7-ad5e-1ba7592015c9
The Egyptian Uprising: Context and Contestation
http://www.sais-jhu.edu/calendar/
Growing Green in a Crowded, Carbon-Constrained World
http://www.sais-jhu.edu/calendar/
U.S. Policy Toward Human Rights in Russia: A Critique
http://www.sais-jhu.edu/calendar/
Reviewing the Obama-Calderon Meeting
http://www.sais-jhu.edu/calendar/
Playing Our Game: Why China's Industrial Rise Doesn't Threaten the West
http://www.sais-jhu.edu/calendar/
A Regional Approach to Regional Problems: Prospects for OSCE - CICA Cooperation
http://csis.org/event/regional-approach-regional-problems-prospects-osce-cica-cooperation
Why SE Asia will be the Cockpit of 21st Century Geopolitics
http://events.georgetown.edu/events/index.cfm?Action=View&CalendarID=86&EventID=84028
Book Presentation: Bosnia Remade: Ethnic Cleansing and Its Reversal http://www.wilsoncenter.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=events.event_summary&event_id=649663
Oscar-Nominated Documentary: "Waste Land" http://www.wilsoncenter.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=events.event_summary&event_id=655020
Tunisia’s Democratic Transition: Challenges & Perspectives http://www.wilsoncenter.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=events.event_summary&event_id=654317
Green Governance Victories and Ongoing Challenges in China
http://www.wilsoncenter.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=events.event_summary&event_id=654240
Thursday (10 March)
Lessons of the "Arab Spring"
http://www.aei.org/event/100378
North Korea’s Sea of Fire: Bullying, Brinkmanship and Blackmail
http://www.internationalrelations.house.gov/hearing_notice.asp?id=1224
Assessing U.S. Foreign Policy Priorities and Needs Amidst Economic Challenges in the Middle East
http://www.internationalrelations.house.gov/hearing_notice.asp?id=1225
Overview of U.S. Relations with Europe and Eurasia
http://www.internationalrelations.house.gov/hearings.asp?showdate=3/10/2011
A Preview of President Obama's Latin America Trip: The Ambassadors Speak
http://www.heritage.org/Events/2011/03/Latin-America
Discussion on "The Coming Revolution: Struggle for Freedom in the Middle East"
http://www.iwp.edu/events/detail/discussion-on-the-coming-revolution-struggle-for-freedom-in-the-middle-east
Popular Revolt in Yemen: Implications for Democracy and US Foreign Policy
http://www.mei.edu/Events/Calendar/tabid/504/vw/3/ItemID/324/d/20110310/Default.aspx
Bloodlands: Europe between Hitler and Stalin
http://www.elliottschool.org/events/calendar.cfm?fuseaction=ViewMonthDetail&yr=2011&mon=3#1461
Targeting Arab Cities: Military and Architectural Expertise and the Moralization of the Politics of Empire
http://www.elliottschool.org/events/calendar.cfm?fuseaction=ViewMonthDetail&yr=2011&mon=3#1470
Global Challenges to Readiness
http://armedservices.house.gov/index.cfm/hearings?ContentRecord_id=fcb82772-f47f-4cb1-b2b8-d1c8117430d5&ContentType_id=14f995b9-dfa5-407a-9d35-56cc7152a7ed&Group_id=13e47ffa-0753-47a7-ad5e-1ba7592015c9
Political Upheaval in the Maghreb: Paths and Choices
http://www.sais-jhu.edu/calendar/
Testimony on the current and future worldwide threats to the national security of the United States
http://armed-services.senate.gov/e_witnesslist.cfm?id=5038
The View from the Field: Country-led Development and Implications for Donor Coordination
http://www.sidw.org/mc/community/eventdetails.do?eventId=305815&orgId=wdcsid&recurringId=0
Greening the Way: New Technology Helps Mexico Keep Climate Change Commitments
http://www.sidw.org/mc/community/eventdetails.do?eventId=306534&orgId=wdcsid&recurringId=0
Dennis Gormley, Senior Fellow, Monterey Institute's Center for Nonproliferation Studies
http://www.publicpolicy.umd.edu/events/238
Dialogues With Mexico: Sergio Aguayo Quezada Book Launch:Vuelta en U and La Transición Mexicana: Una Historia Documental, 1910-2010 http://www.wilsoncenter.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=events.event_summary&event_id=654368
Brazil in Regional and Global History http://www.wilsoncenter.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=events.event_summary&event_id=654318
Russia's Cold War: From the October Revolution to the Fall of the Wall
http://www.wilsoncenter.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=events.event_summary&event_id=651738
Friday (11 March)
Rebuilding America: The Role of Foreign Capital, Sovereign Wealth Funds and Global Public Investors
http://www.brookings.edu/events/2011/0311_sovereign_wealth.aspx
Rising Oil Prices and Dependence on Hostile Regimes: The Urgent Case for Canadian Oil
http://www.internationalrelations.house.gov/hearings.asp?showdate=3/11/2011
Washington Area International Trade Symposium (WAITS)
http://www.elliottschool.org/events/calendar.cfm?fuseaction=ViewMonthDetail&yr=2011&mon=3#1480
The Annual U.S. - Global Leadership Project: Development, Diplomacy, and Defense
http://www.meridian.org/index.php?option=com_events&type=event&task=details&id=54&Itemid=8
Counterproliferation Strategy for the Defense Threat Reduction Agency and Chemical Biological Defense Program
http://armedservices.house.gov/index.cfm/hearings?ContentRecord_id=d29f2175-64bf-40db-963a-4cfa411475f2&ContentType_id=14f995b9-dfa5-407a-9d35-56cc7152a7ed&Group_id=13e47ffa-0753-47a7-ad5e-1ba7592015c9
Promoting Diplomacy Through Science
http://www.sais-jhu.edu/calendar/
Reasonable Expectations: Civil Society as Peacemaker - Findings From a Multi-Country Study
http://www.sais-jhu.edu/calendar/
Fault Lines in Global Health Debate
http://csis.org/event/fault-lines-global-health
Greece’s Financial Crisis and the Future of the Euro http://www.wilsoncenter.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=events.event_summary&event_id=655545
The Conflict Prevention & Resolution Forum Presents: Reasonable Expectations: Civil Society as Peacemaker
http://www.wilsoncenter.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=events.event_summary&event_id=655511
Solidarity With Solidarity: Western European Trade Unions and the Polish Crisis, 1980-1982
http://www.wilsoncenter.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=events.event_summary&event_id=651747
The Current State of Civil Society as a Reflection of the Paradoxes of Modern-Day Russia
http://www.wilsoncenter.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=events.event_summary&event_id=651336
Friday, March 4, 2011
Fed Event: Fri, March 11th, 11 AM: Panel with Dept. of Ed, NIH and NIST
Federal Careers and Internships Panel: Department of Education, National Institutes of Health (NIH), and National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST)
Friday, March 11, 2011 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM, 1203 Van Munching Hall
Learn about careers and internships in the federal government. Panel features speakers from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the U.S. Department of Education, the National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST), and the Partnership for Public Service. Event includes light refreshments and networking time. Event cosponsored by the School of Public Policy and the Federal Semester Program. (Room is on the School of Public Policy side of Van Munching Hall.)
Speakers
Judy Wurtzel is Deputy Assistant Secretary, Office of Planning, Evaluation and Policy Development, at the U.S. Department of Education. Judy Wurtzel comes to the department from The Aspen Institute, where she has served as co-director since 2005, helping local, state and national education leaders improve the education and life chances of poor and minority students. Prior to her tenure at the Aspen Institute, Wurtzel served as executive director of The Learning First Alliance, a partnership of leading national education associations formed to improve teaching and learning. Wurtzel also served as senior advisor to the deputy secretary at the U.S. Department of Education from 1993 to 1999 and as associate counsel to the president in the White House Office of Presidential Personnel. Wurtzel received her B.A. in literature from Yale and a law degree from New York University.
Virginia Hill Condon joined the National Institutes of Health in August 2007. As a Presidential Management Fellow, Ms. Condon focused her attention on communications and public affairs to disseminate the important biomedical research of the NIH in new, creative ways. Ms. Condon is able to put her talents to work in her current position at the NIH Clinical Center by working on intramural-extramural partnerships, implementation of social media tools, and strategic communications and management planning. Also, she coordinates the new Sabbatical program in Clinical Research Management. She earned her Master of Social Work from Louisiana State University in 2007 and a Bachelor of Science in Psychology from the University of Illinois in 2005.
Dr. Josh Pomeroy is an experimental physicist at the National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST), a non-regulatory federal agency that promotes U.S. innovation and industrial competitiveness. He performs fundamental research that explores the quantum mechanical phenomena that limits the performance of electronics and seeks ways to overcome or, if possible, harness those phenomena. This work is expected to provide benefits to future electronics by providing more computing power, more storage and less energy use. He designs and builds apparatuses, fabricates samples, exposes the samples to well-controlled experimental conditions, measures their properties at the end, analyzes the results and ultimately writes papers and communicates the results to other scientists.
Dr. Pomeroy enjoys working for the federal government because he is deeply concerned about our nation's ability to remain technically competitive. He knows that many students do not recognize the opportunities and advantages of being a scientist for the government and wants to help change this perception.
Dr. Pomeroy graduated from Cornell University with a Ph.D. in Physics and received his undergraduate degree in physics from Boston University. Dr. Pomeroy was also a 2008 Service to America medal finalist.
Friday, March 11, 2011 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM, 1203 Van Munching Hall
Learn about careers and internships in the federal government. Panel features speakers from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the U.S. Department of Education, the National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST), and the Partnership for Public Service. Event includes light refreshments and networking time. Event cosponsored by the School of Public Policy and the Federal Semester Program. (Room is on the School of Public Policy side of Van Munching Hall.)
Speakers
Judy Wurtzel is Deputy Assistant Secretary, Office of Planning, Evaluation and Policy Development, at the U.S. Department of Education. Judy Wurtzel comes to the department from The Aspen Institute, where she has served as co-director since 2005, helping local, state and national education leaders improve the education and life chances of poor and minority students. Prior to her tenure at the Aspen Institute, Wurtzel served as executive director of The Learning First Alliance, a partnership of leading national education associations formed to improve teaching and learning. Wurtzel also served as senior advisor to the deputy secretary at the U.S. Department of Education from 1993 to 1999 and as associate counsel to the president in the White House Office of Presidential Personnel. Wurtzel received her B.A. in literature from Yale and a law degree from New York University.
Virginia Hill Condon joined the National Institutes of Health in August 2007. As a Presidential Management Fellow, Ms. Condon focused her attention on communications and public affairs to disseminate the important biomedical research of the NIH in new, creative ways. Ms. Condon is able to put her talents to work in her current position at the NIH Clinical Center by working on intramural-extramural partnerships, implementation of social media tools, and strategic communications and management planning. Also, she coordinates the new Sabbatical program in Clinical Research Management. She earned her Master of Social Work from Louisiana State University in 2007 and a Bachelor of Science in Psychology from the University of Illinois in 2005.
Dr. Josh Pomeroy is an experimental physicist at the National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST), a non-regulatory federal agency that promotes U.S. innovation and industrial competitiveness. He performs fundamental research that explores the quantum mechanical phenomena that limits the performance of electronics and seeks ways to overcome or, if possible, harness those phenomena. This work is expected to provide benefits to future electronics by providing more computing power, more storage and less energy use. He designs and builds apparatuses, fabricates samples, exposes the samples to well-controlled experimental conditions, measures their properties at the end, analyzes the results and ultimately writes papers and communicates the results to other scientists.
Dr. Pomeroy enjoys working for the federal government because he is deeply concerned about our nation's ability to remain technically competitive. He knows that many students do not recognize the opportunities and advantages of being a scientist for the government and wants to help change this perception.
Dr. Pomeroy graduated from Cornell University with a Ph.D. in Physics and received his undergraduate degree in physics from Boston University. Dr. Pomeroy was also a 2008 Service to America medal finalist.
Fed Event: March 9th, Panel with VA and OPM
Federal Careers and Internships Panel: Veterans Affairs and Office of Personnel Management
Wednesday, March 9, 2011 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM, 2511 Van Munching Hall, Panel Discussion
Learn about careers and internships in the federal government. Panel features speakers from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, and the Partnership for Public Service. Event includes light refreshments and networking time. Event cosponsored by the School of Public Policy and the Federal Semester Program. (Room is upstairs on the School of Business side of Van Munching Hall.)
Speakers
Known throughout the military blogosphere as “GI Kate,” Kate Hoit was born and raised in Albany, New York. She joined the U.S. Army Reserve at 17 and served for eight years—including time as an Army photojournalist in Balad, Iraq from 2004 – 2005 with the 301st Area Support Group out of Queens. In addition to maintaining the blog GIKate.com, her work has appeared in the New York Times (at The Caucus: The Politics and Government Blog of The Times), The Huffington Post, and VetVoice. She has appeared in the History Channel documentary special Band of Bloggers and has worked on a documentary film about women in the military. Kate recently graduated from the State University of New York at Albany with a BA in Journalism.
As a New Media Specialist for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Alex Horton is the primary writer for the Department’s official blog. He is best known as “Army of Dude,” the title of his blog and nom de guerre as an enlisted infantryman at Fort Lewis, Washington. He deployed to Iraq in 2006 with the Third Stryker Brigade, Second Infantry Division for a fifteen month tour, where his unit saw some of the heaviest fighting during the troop surge in 2007 in Baghdad and Baqubah, Diyala Province. Along with his writing at Army of Dude, Alex’s work has been published in the St. Petersburg Times and he has been profiled by CNN, BBC, Los Angeles Times, Dallas Morning News, The Economist and several NPR affiliates. His blog has been twice nominated for military blog of the year. Prior to arriving at VA, Alex was a student majoring in global studies in Austin, Texas.
Cheryl Ndunguru works at the Office of Personnel Management as a Policy Writer in Executive Resources and Employee Development. She has authored and co-authored Government-wide policy and guidance related to leadership development programs, training, and enterprise-wide change initiatives. Cheryl also speaks regularly at national training conferences (e.g. American Society for Training and Development, Training Officer’s Consortium) on all matters related to training and training policy. Cheryl holds a Master’s Degree in Social Work from the Catholic University of America and a Master’s Degree in Quality Systems Management from the National Graduate School of Quality Systems Management. Cheryl is a member of the American Society for Training and Development (ASTD) and the American National Standards Institute (ANSI). She lives in Bowie, Maryland with her husband and four children.
Wednesday, March 9, 2011 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM, 2511 Van Munching Hall, Panel Discussion
Learn about careers and internships in the federal government. Panel features speakers from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, and the Partnership for Public Service. Event includes light refreshments and networking time. Event cosponsored by the School of Public Policy and the Federal Semester Program. (Room is upstairs on the School of Business side of Van Munching Hall.)
Speakers
Known throughout the military blogosphere as “GI Kate,” Kate Hoit was born and raised in Albany, New York. She joined the U.S. Army Reserve at 17 and served for eight years—including time as an Army photojournalist in Balad, Iraq from 2004 – 2005 with the 301st Area Support Group out of Queens. In addition to maintaining the blog GIKate.com, her work has appeared in the New York Times (at The Caucus: The Politics and Government Blog of The Times), The Huffington Post, and VetVoice. She has appeared in the History Channel documentary special Band of Bloggers and has worked on a documentary film about women in the military. Kate recently graduated from the State University of New York at Albany with a BA in Journalism.
As a New Media Specialist for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Alex Horton is the primary writer for the Department’s official blog. He is best known as “Army of Dude,” the title of his blog and nom de guerre as an enlisted infantryman at Fort Lewis, Washington. He deployed to Iraq in 2006 with the Third Stryker Brigade, Second Infantry Division for a fifteen month tour, where his unit saw some of the heaviest fighting during the troop surge in 2007 in Baghdad and Baqubah, Diyala Province. Along with his writing at Army of Dude, Alex’s work has been published in the St. Petersburg Times and he has been profiled by CNN, BBC, Los Angeles Times, Dallas Morning News, The Economist and several NPR affiliates. His blog has been twice nominated for military blog of the year. Prior to arriving at VA, Alex was a student majoring in global studies in Austin, Texas.
Cheryl Ndunguru works at the Office of Personnel Management as a Policy Writer in Executive Resources and Employee Development. She has authored and co-authored Government-wide policy and guidance related to leadership development programs, training, and enterprise-wide change initiatives. Cheryl also speaks regularly at national training conferences (e.g. American Society for Training and Development, Training Officer’s Consortium) on all matters related to training and training policy. Cheryl holds a Master’s Degree in Social Work from the Catholic University of America and a Master’s Degree in Quality Systems Management from the National Graduate School of Quality Systems Management. Cheryl is a member of the American Society for Training and Development (ASTD) and the American National Standards Institute (ANSI). She lives in Bowie, Maryland with her husband and four children.
Fed Event: Panel with DHS and OPM
Federal Careers and Internships Panel: Homeland Security and Office of Personnel Management
Tuesday, March 8, 2011 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM, 2505 Van Munching Hall, Panel Discussion
Learn about careers and internships in the federal government. The panel features speakers from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, and the Partnership for Public Service. Event includes light refreshments and networking time. Event cosponsored by the School of Public Policy and the Federal Semester Program. (Room is upstairs on the School of Business side of Van Munching Hall.)
Speakers
I.J Ezeonwuka began her career as a Contract Specialist with the U.S. Coast Guard in Washington DC in February 2007. She started her career in the Federal Government in September 2005 with the Smithsonian Institution as a Contract Specialist after graduating from the University of Pittsburgh in May of 2005 with a Bachelor’s degree in Marketing.
In February of 2010, IJ graduated from the Executive Leadership Program. As a requirement of the Executive Leadership Program, IJ was detailed to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Chief Procurement Office where she supported the Senior Counselor to the Department’s Undersecretary for Management. IJ diligently supported their efforts to provide oversight of DHS’ American Reinvestment and Recovery Act Program.
Julie D. Saad is a Program Analyst with the Student Programs Office at the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM). In this role, she promotes innovative and coordinated approaches to recruiting and hiring students and recent graduates into the Federal government. At OPM since 2006, Julie has also worked on initiatives related to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, H1N1 Influenza pandemic planning, and the Chief Human Capital Officers Council.
Prior to her Federal career, Ms. Saad worked for over four years in the Ohio General Assembly. She has served on numerous boards and as a member of various professional organizations, including: Young Government Leaders, the Annenberg Speakers’ Bureau at the Partnership for Public Service, Presidential Classroom, American University’s School of Public Affairs Graduate Council, American University’s Women and Politics Institute, and the John Glenn Institute for Public Service and Public Policy. In 2008, Ms. Saad was featured as a young government leader in Government Executive’s cover story on the different generations in the Federal workforce.
Julie graduated summa cum laude and with honors in the Liberal Arts from The Ohio State University in 2003. She holds a B.A. in Political Science, with minors in Communications and Philosophy, from that university. Additionally, she holds a Master of Public Administration (MPA) and a Graduate Certificate in Women, Policy, and Political Leadership (2007) from The American University.
Tuesday, March 8, 2011 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM, 2505 Van Munching Hall, Panel Discussion
Learn about careers and internships in the federal government. The panel features speakers from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, and the Partnership for Public Service. Event includes light refreshments and networking time. Event cosponsored by the School of Public Policy and the Federal Semester Program. (Room is upstairs on the School of Business side of Van Munching Hall.)
Speakers
I.J Ezeonwuka began her career as a Contract Specialist with the U.S. Coast Guard in Washington DC in February 2007. She started her career in the Federal Government in September 2005 with the Smithsonian Institution as a Contract Specialist after graduating from the University of Pittsburgh in May of 2005 with a Bachelor’s degree in Marketing.
In February of 2010, IJ graduated from the Executive Leadership Program. As a requirement of the Executive Leadership Program, IJ was detailed to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Chief Procurement Office where she supported the Senior Counselor to the Department’s Undersecretary for Management. IJ diligently supported their efforts to provide oversight of DHS’ American Reinvestment and Recovery Act Program.
Julie D. Saad is a Program Analyst with the Student Programs Office at the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM). In this role, she promotes innovative and coordinated approaches to recruiting and hiring students and recent graduates into the Federal government. At OPM since 2006, Julie has also worked on initiatives related to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, H1N1 Influenza pandemic planning, and the Chief Human Capital Officers Council.
Prior to her Federal career, Ms. Saad worked for over four years in the Ohio General Assembly. She has served on numerous boards and as a member of various professional organizations, including: Young Government Leaders, the Annenberg Speakers’ Bureau at the Partnership for Public Service, Presidential Classroom, American University’s School of Public Affairs Graduate Council, American University’s Women and Politics Institute, and the John Glenn Institute for Public Service and Public Policy. In 2008, Ms. Saad was featured as a young government leader in Government Executive’s cover story on the different generations in the Federal workforce.
Julie graduated summa cum laude and with honors in the Liberal Arts from The Ohio State University in 2003. She holds a B.A. in Political Science, with minors in Communications and Philosophy, from that university. Additionally, she holds a Master of Public Administration (MPA) and a Graduate Certificate in Women, Policy, and Political Leadership (2007) from The American University.
Fed Event:National Community Reinvestment Coalition’s Conference
National Community Reinvestment Coalition’s Conference
April 13-16, 2011
Washington
Join us for an exciting line-up of keynote speakers, plenaries, workshops and hands-on trainings, in addition to GREAT NETWORKING OPPORTUNITIES with the nation’s leaders in government, academia, and community affairs and non-profits.
This year’s conference promises to be one of the best yet and of great value to students and academic professionals! Students receive a special rate of only $40!
Learn how new and emerging policies will impact the nation’s housing market, jobs and small businesses, and consumer rights and protections. Join us for an exciting four-day program, featuring training, networking, and exciting plenary sessions. Here are just a few forums that you’ll find enlightening:
¦ Affordable Housing and the Future of the GSEs
¦ Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Update & Regulatory Reform Briefing
¦ CRA Expansion: Statutory & Regulatory Reforms to Increase Access to Credit and Capital for All Americans
¦ The Future of Mortgages: New protections, new restrictions?
To register and view the full conference agenda,
Follow this link: http://bit.ly/2011NCRCconf
April 13-16, 2011
Washington
Join us for an exciting line-up of keynote speakers, plenaries, workshops and hands-on trainings, in addition to GREAT NETWORKING OPPORTUNITIES with the nation’s leaders in government, academia, and community affairs and non-profits.
This year’s conference promises to be one of the best yet and of great value to students and academic professionals! Students receive a special rate of only $40!
Learn how new and emerging policies will impact the nation’s housing market, jobs and small businesses, and consumer rights and protections. Join us for an exciting four-day program, featuring training, networking, and exciting plenary sessions. Here are just a few forums that you’ll find enlightening:
¦ Affordable Housing and the Future of the GSEs
¦ Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Update & Regulatory Reform Briefing
¦ CRA Expansion: Statutory & Regulatory Reforms to Increase Access to Credit and Capital for All Americans
¦ The Future of Mortgages: New protections, new restrictions?
To register and view the full conference agenda,
Follow this link: http://bit.ly/2011NCRCconf
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