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  • GIS Visiting Professor Joins IDCE
    • IDCE is pleased to announce that Dr. Henry Bulley from the University of Nebraska will be joining the department as a visiting assistant professor of GIS during the 2008-09 academic year. Dr. Bulley is an exceptional fit with IDCE. In addition to his GIS expertise, he has worked in his native Ghana on issues of development and environment.  

  • ES&P Professor Jennie Stephens Article on Climate Change Educations Published
    • Stephens co-authored "Climate Science to Citizen Action: Energizing Nonformal Climate Science Education" with Amanda Graham, a collaborator of hers that resides at MIT. Read the full article.
  • GISDE Student Interning in the Congo
    • Joel Masselink (GISDE/MA ’09) will be traveling and interning with USAID's Central African Regional Program for the Environment in Kinshasa, DRCongo this summer. This program works to conserve biodiversity and reduce deforestation in the Congo Basin, by working with funding partners and building location capacity. To learn more about the program, check out the website or visit Joel’s travel blog.
  • New Visiting IDSC Faculty
    • It is with pleasure that we announce Dr. Teferi Abate-Adem will be joining IDCE as a one year visiting faculty member in the IDSC program. Dr. Abate-Adem is an Ethiopian anthropologist who specializes in questions of land tenure, rural livelihoods, land management, and state-community relations in post-conflict settings. He has practitioner experience in the Horn of Africa and is also currently teaching at Yale. Welcome!
  • IDSC Graduate Honored for Research Paper
    • Tara Arthur's (IDSC/MA '08) master's research paper on Sport: An Agency for Women was selected to be part of the Sports in Africa and Asia between Identity Politics, Body Cultures and Secular Ritual International Workshop held at the Centre for Modern Oriental Studies in Berlin, Germany in November.
  • IDCE News & Views 2008
    • IDCE's annual report News & Views 2008 has arrived. Please send IDCE News an email to update your contact information if you did not receive your copy.

  • Child Development Study
    • The University of Massachusetts Medical School, in collaboration with Clark University and faculty at IDCE, is participating in a study on children from before they are born until their 21st birthdays to better understand the influence of genes and environment on health. Tim Downs, Yelena Ogneva-Himmelberger, and Rob Goble, will be responsible for two key aspects: sampling of the environments children inhabit and mapping of sources of stress using GIS. They will also provide expertise on community-based participatory research which will engage participants more actively to improve understanding of child health issues and participant retention through the 21-year period. Read more about the project here.
  • National Urban Policy Initiatives Competition
    • IDCE, GSOM, Community Development Training Institute (CDTI), Freddie Mac, the United States Conference of Mayors and the National Community Development Association are seeking the submission of proposals to an National Urban Policy Initiatives Competition. An award of $20,000 will be given to the winner of each category. The categories are affordable and sustainable housing; neighborhood based economic development and financial services to low income communities. There will also be an award of $2,500 given to the second place winners of each category.
  • aids2031
    • As one of eight partners worldwide, Clark University, represented by IDCE and the George Perkins Marsh Institute, is collaborating in a new global consortium, aids2031. The initiative, currently under development, will reshape how people in the development and medical fields think about the next 25 years of AIDS. Read more about the project in ClarkNews.
  • Welcome New Class Entering Fall 2008
    • IDCE is eagerly anticipating our new class! Congratulations on being admitted to the Fall 2008 Class. We look forward to meeting you and helping you adjust to graduate school here at Clark University.

  • Association of American Geographers: Student competition winners
    • IDCE is proud to count many winners among our students at the Association of American Geographers student paper competition. In the Illustrated Paper category, Alicia Simonti (GISDE/MA ’08) took First Place for her project Image Time Series Analysis of SeaWIFS Ocean Color Product for the Investigation of Ocean Chlorophyll Dynamics.
    • Classmate Oh Seok Kim (GISDE/MA ’08) took Second Place for his Contribution of GIScience to Carbon Credit Estimation.
    • Neeti Neeti (GISDE/MA ’07) and present Geography Ph.D. student won second place in the Spatial Analysis & Modeling paper competition.
    • Laura Merner (ES&P-Geography/BA ’08) was awarded the Norb Psuty Student Paper Merit Award sponsored by the Coastal Marine and Specialty Group for her paper "Assessing the Role of Salinity and Water Height Levels on the Mortality of Bald-Cypress: an in depth look at the Cypress Triangle, Louisiana."
  • Applied Aquatic Ecology
    • The Applied Aquatic Ecology class went to Eagle Lake in Holden to find and identify wetland plants that they had seen in the classroom the week before. View photos here.
  • City of Worcester Internships
    • In Spring 2008 semester, Nan Deng (GISDE/MA ’08) will be working as an intern with the City of Worcester. Nan will be assisting the GIS Manager, Shane White, in building a public website mainly for querying parcel information and exploring the relationship between different geographic features. “I'm glad that the GISDE program provides us this internship option that also helps to build a friendly relationship with the City of Worcester.” Also receving an internship with the City of Worcester is Anita Malpani (IDSC/MA '08).
  • Tara Arthur (IDSC/MA '08) honored with "Women of Clark" Award
    • Tara Arthur (IDSC/MA ’08) was honored with a “Women of Clark” award this spring. Tara was honored for her tireless work both here at Clark where she is the co-President of the Graduate Student Association and also off-campus where she works with the Haitian Sports Foundation (HSF). The HSF uses sports as a way to empower women in Haiti and also to give back positive attention to the talented people of Haiti. Congratulations to Tara for all her work both here and in the world at large!

  • Graduate Students Working as RA's on Immigrant Health Needs Grant
    • Meg Barritt (IDSC/MA ’08) and Jenna Mosely (IDSC/MA ’09) are working as research assistants with Ellen Foley on a grant she acquired from the Central Mass. Health Foundation for an action research project titled “Bridging Barriers: Meeting Youth Immigrant and Refugee Health Needs in Worcester, MA.” They are studying the health, literacy, and after-school program needs among African and Southeast Asian refugee and immigrant youth in Worcester.
  • IDSC Undergraduates in the Spotlight for Social Change
    • Erica Richmond (IDSC/BA ’08) participated in an internship at Friendly Haven in Windhoek, Namibia. She was there for four months, assisting the women at the shelter with issues related to their having sustained domestic violence and rape. In light of her dedication to women’s empowerment, she received the Cynthia Enloe Award in 2005, in part for helping to form the women studies major here at Clark.
    • Rachel Gerber (IDSC/BA ’11) has a long history of volunteerism. Among her many pursuits, she has assisted with voting rights for the homeless, food drives in her home community of Cherry Hill, New Jersey, and Mississippi’s Habitat for Humanity. Her insistence on making the world a better place has earned her title as a “Making a Difference Scholar” for her four years at Clark.

 

 

 

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