The RiftLand Project: Modeling Droughts and Displacement Among Traditional People in East Africa

Time: Thu, November 21, 12:15pm – 1:30pm
Location: 1203 Van Munching Hall

Presented by Timothy Gulden, Research Assistant Professor, Center for Social Complexity, George Mason University


Timothy Gulden is a Research Assistant Professor with the Center for Social Complexity in the Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study at George Mason University. His research focuses on modeling complex systems in the context of empirical data.  He holds a PhD from the University of Maryland School of Public Policy where he explored agent-based modeling as a tool for policy analysis. He has been a research scholar at CISSM, a visiting scholar at the Brookings Institution's Center for Social and Economic Dynamics (CSED) and attended the Santa Fe Institute's Complex Systems Summer School. During the 1990’s he was the technical director of the GIS program for Westchester County, New York.  His interests include the quantitative study of conflict dynamics, modeling adaptation to a changing climate, understanding the human and economic flows driving changes in the global urban system, and the development of novel urban metrics based on nighttime lights.

Regional Developments and their Impact on the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict

Time: Wed, November 20, 12:15pm – 1:30pm
Location: 1107 Stamp Student Union
RSVP: https://publicpolicy.umd.edu/palestine 

https://www.publicpolicy.umd.edu/events/maryland-global-leaders-program-palestinian-ambassador

Ownership, Financial Frictions and Investment Behavior: Evidence from Chinese Manufacturing Firms

Time: Tue, November 19, 12:15pm – 1:30pm
Location: 1203 Van Munching Hall
Link: https://www.publicpolicy.umd.edu/events/policy-forum-ownership-financial-frictions-and-investment-behavior-evidence-chinese

Exceptional Opportunities in Biomedical Research

Time: Tue, November 19, 5:00pm – 6:30pm
Location: Colony Ballroom, Stamp Student Union
Link: http://www.bioscienceday.umd.edu/schedule-events/keynote-address

Dr. Francis Collins
Director, National Institutes of Health

Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D. is the Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). In that role he oversees the work of the largest supporter of biomedical research in the world, spanning the spectrum from basic to clinical research.

Dr. Collins is a physician-geneticist noted for his landmark discoveries of disease genes and his leadership of the international Human Genome Project, which culminated in April 2003 with the completion of a finished sequence of the human DNA instruction book. He served as director of the National Human Genome Research Institute at the NIH from 1993-2008.

Before coming to the NIH, Dr. Collins was a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator at the University of Michigan. He is an elected member of the Institute of Medicine and the National Academy of Sciences, was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in November 2007, and received the National Medal of Science in 2009.

International Internships Panel: Student Perspectives

Time: Mon, November 18, 12pm – 1pm
Location: University Career Center & The President's Promise (3100 Hornbake Library, South Wing)

RSVP: http://www.careers.umd.edu/events_RSVP.cfm?event_id=4512

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International Internships Panel: Student Perspectives 

Event Details:

Interested in interning abroad? Curious to learn more about the options that exist? Hear from a panel of current UMD students who have gained valuable experience through internships in other countries.

Student panelists include:

• Mackenzie Burnett, UK Parliament, United Kingdom
• Courtni Berry, United States Agency for International Development (USAID), Tanzania
• Carrie Hildebrandt, House of Grace & Center for Democracy and Community, Israel
• Alexander Pryor, International Student Conferences, Inc, South Korea
• Nyana Quashie, Maryland Social Entrepreneur Corps, Nicaragua

Lunch provided!

RSVP for this event: Click here

For additional information about this event:
contact Erica Ely at eely@umd.edu

November Talk Story event featuring Dr. Mae Ngai

Time: Sun, November 17, 2013, 1:00pm-3:00pm
Location: Chinese Community Church, 500 I Street NW, Washington, D.C.
Link: http://www.1882project.org/events/talkstory-event-meet-the-author-etc/

Please join us for the November Talk Story event featuring Dr. Mae Ngai as she discusses her book, The Lucky Ones. Her research explores the story of the Tape family, led by Joseph and Mary Tape, during the post-Gold Rush era in San Francisco. They lived and prospered between the continuing Chinese immigrant community and the emerging Chinese American middle class. Their daughter was central to the 1885 Tape v. Hurley case that dealt with school segregation.

November’s Talk Story Event gives you the opportunity to meet the author of this absorbing book and learn about the Tape family and their transition from Chinese to Chinese American.

A New Kind of DC Internship: A Discussion with No Labels

Time: Wed, November 13, 7pm - 8pm
Location: 2206 Jimenez Building

No Labels will be here to discuss their organization, their goal, and their internship program in an event hosted by the College Democrats, but is bipartisan in nature.

No Labels is a non-profit organization dedicated to fostering bipartisanship in the United States Congress. No Labels has organized the "Problem Solvers Coalition," a group of 87 members of Congress, from both parties, who meet regularly with their colleagues from across the aisle to build trust and start negotiating to solve problems. 

No Labels' internship program is unlike a typical Washington, D.C. internship. As described by their website, "Fetching coffee or making copies is not in the job description." 

Facebook event link: https://www.facebook.com/events/422752961180838/?previousaction=join&source=1