Description: The complex Green-Duwamish Watershed contains one of Seattle’s primary economic engines providing the region’s growth throughout the history of the City along with some of our nation’s most culturally and racially diverse communities. Significant population growth and climate change are challenging our region to adopt sustainable practices which requires the collaboration across government, business and community sectors.

Learn how challenges are being addressed through innovative programs which include diverse partnerships across all sectors, integration of environmental equity and inclusion for positive impacts. Panelist will speak on topics of collaboration, innovative community-based programs, partnering with multicultural businesses, collaborative partnerships to build a thriving, sustainable economy which is inclusive and protects the environment for the region’s communities.

 

Panelists include:

(1) Natural Resources Challenges and Solutions: Josh Baldi, DNR King County.

With complex challenges facing the county/region with growth, climate change, diverse demographics and how through collaboration they are addressing these challenges with innovative programs focused on sustainability, equity and inclusion. 

(2) Empowering Business Through Sustainability: Joycelyn Chui, ECOSS.

ECOSS educates and collaborates with businesses and communities of diversity to implement environmentally sustainable practices through their innovative programs.

(3) Developing Youth Leadership in Communities of Diversity: Paulina Lopez, Duwamish River Cleanup Coalition’s Duwamish Youth Corp Program.

The Duwamish Youth Corps program focuses on providing underserved, at risk youth from the South Park area of Seattle a leadership development program which includes community activism, environmental education and career/work planning with a strong emphasis on environmental equity.

(4) The Business Case for Sustainability and Environmental Justice: speaker TBD

The University of Michigan Department of Political Science invites applications from outstanding candidates for a tenure track position in the field of Formal Theory to begin September 1, 2019. We are especially interested in candidates with substantive interests in International Relations and/or Public Law, at the assistant professor rank. This is a university year appointment. Promise of excellence in research and teaching is required.

Application submission information available at https://lsa.umich.edu/polisci/faculty-hiring.html. Review of applications will begin September 1, 2018.

Applicants should include the following application materials in PDF format: a cover letter, curriculum vitae, a concise statement describing current and future plans for research, a statement of teaching philosophy and experience, evidence of teaching excellence (if any), writing samples, graduate transcripts (for entry-level candidates), and a statement of activities contributing to diversity, equity, and inclusion in academia. Applications should also submit three letters of recommendation.

The University of Michigan is an AA/EO employer. Women and minorities are encouraged to apply. The University is supportive of the needs of dual career couples.

The Northwest Climate Adaptation Science Center (NW CASC) invites proposals from faculty at UW, WWU, WSU, BSU and UM for funding to support science involving graduate students and post-docs in fields relating to understanding and addressing climate impacts on NW natural and cultural resources. Selected proposals will include instructing NW CASC Fellows in the principals and practices of co-producing decision-relevant (“actionable”) science to facilitate development of scientists proficient in confronting complex socio-ecological problems. Funding will be available beginning fall 2018 to support research performed during the 2018-2019 academic year. Applications due July 25, 2018. Please see the attached RFP announcement for details.

The Department of Sociology at Yale University intends to make multiple tenured and tenure-track appointments beginning July 1, 2019. We are seeking applicants whose work uses quantitative methods to study social inequality broadly defined. Substantive fields include but are not limited to race and ethnicity, immigration, gender, education, family, urban sociology, social networks, computational social science, demography, health, and the labor force. Candidates should be able to teach courses in undergraduate and graduate level statistics. Candidates for the untenured/junior position(s) should submit a letter of application; CV; writing sample, and three letters of reference. Submissions for the untenured/junior position may be made via http://apply.interfolio.com/50774

Candidates for the tenured/senior position(s) should submit a letter of application and CV.  Submissions may be made via http://apply.interfolio.com/50775

Review of applications will begin September 15, 2018.  Yale University is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity employer. Yale values diversity among its students, staff, and faculty and strongly welcomes applications from women, persons with disabilities, protected veterans, and underrepresented minorities

A Research Associate works with a substantial degree of independence under the direction of senior research staff, performs a variety of complex research and management tasks, and supervises research assistants, especially, but not only, on fielding activities. Research tasks may include collection of quantitative data (often by overseeing fielding of surveys), collection of qualitative data, data processing and/or implementing data analyses, coordinating project timelines, compilation of information, and writing reports, including publishable products. A Research Associate contributes to a range of other administrative and institutional activities and typically serves as a project manager on one or more projects or project components. We are seeking individuals with interest and experience in sexual and reproductive health research in the United States.

IAPHS conferences feature the latest in population health science from diverse disciplines and promote exchanges about population health issues between scientists and stakeholders from policy and practice fields.

This year’s conference is hosted by the National Academies Roundtable on Population Health Improvement. The Roundtable and IAPHS are offering a joint symposium, Population Health Science in the United States: Trends, Evidence, and Effective Policy, to be held prior to the start of IAPHS sessions, October 3, 8:15 AM – 1:00 PM.

Awards

IRP anticipates providing two fellows with $20,000 in flexible funding over a one-year award period beginning September 1, 2018. IRP will also match each fellow with a senior poverty scholar mentor.

Goals

IRP’s Emerging Poverty Scholars Fellowship aims to support the career development and success of promising emerging poverty scholars from underrepresented racial and ethnic populations by

• enhancing the resources available to them,
• providing high-quality mentoring from nationally renowned senior poverty scholars, and
• fostering interaction among a diverse set of scholars in order to broaden the corps of U.S. poverty researchers.

Beyond providing Fellows with flexible funding and opportunities for expanding their networks and receiving feedback on their research and career trajectories, the program intends to establish long-term relationships between Fellows and other poverty scholars, which may lead to future collaborations.

Funding

Fellowships may be used for a wide range of professional development activities, including

• engaging in substantive and methodological training;
• travel for data collection, collaboration, or research presentation;
• securing release time from teaching; or
• summer salary support.

IRP will separately provide travel funding for Fellows to visit IRP, other institutions from the U.S. Collaborative of Poverty Centers (CPC), and/or their mentor’s home institution twice during the one-year funding period.

Expectations

Fellows will be invited to attend and may be asked to present their research at a variety of IRP events. They are also expected to participate in follow-up activities such as program evaluation of this initiative and efforts to support future Fellows.