Events

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Past Events

“Equity and the Sustainable City: 'Just Green' or 'Just and Green'?”
Dr. Melanie McDermott
Assistant Research Professor, Department of Human Ecology and Senior Researcher, Sustainability Institute, The College of NJ
Time: 12:30:00 PM TO 2:00:00 PM
Location: Blake Hall, Room 131, Cook Campus

“Follow the Carbon”
Dr. Daniel Aldana Cohen, Assistant Professor
Department of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania
Time: 12:30:00 PM TO 2:00:00 PM
Location: Room 101, Institute for Food, Nutrition & Health, 61 Dudley Rd, New Brunswick, NJ 08901

“Bending Toward Justice: Food Charity and Public Policy”
Dr. Janet Poppendieck, Professor Emerita
Department of Sociology, Hunter College, City University of New York
Time: 12:30:00 PM TO 2:00:00 PM
Location: Room 101, Institute for Food, Nutrition & Health, 61 Dudley Rd, New Brunswick, NJ 08901

“Climate Change and the Challenges to Democracy”
Dale Jamieson, Professor
Environmental Studies & Philosophy, New York University
Time: 12:30:00 PM TO 2:00:00 PM
Location: Alampi Room, Institute of Marine & Coastal Sciences, Cook Campus

“A Food Systems Approach to Improving Diets Globally”
Dr. Shauna Downs, Assistant Professor
Department of Health Systems and Policy, Rutgers University
Time: 12:30:00 PM TO 2:00:00 PM
Location: Room 101, Institute for Food, Nutrition & Health, 61 Dudley Rd, New Brunswick, NJ 08901

“CANCELED DUE TO INCLEMENT WEATHER WILL RESCHEDULE NEXT FALL...The Other 46% - Prospects for a New Treaty on Sustainable Use of High Seas Biodiversity”
Dr. Cymie Payne, Associate Professor
Department of Human Ecology Rutgers University
Time: 12:30:00 PM TO 2:00:00 PM
Location: Blake Hall, Room 131, Cook Campus

“Beneficiaries of Forest Carbon: Precarious Inclusion in the Brazilian Amazon”
Dr. Maron Greenleaf, Postdoctoral Fellow
Earth Institute, Columbia University
Time: 12:30:00 PM TO 2:00:00 PM
Location: Blake Hall, Room 131, Cook Campus

“Human Niche Construction and Cultural Resilience as Mutual: Evidence from Landscapes Enduring Chestnut Pest and Disease Outbreak across Turkey”
Jeffrey Wall, PhD Candidate
Department of Natural Resources, Cornell University
Time: 11:00:00 AM TO 12:00:00 PM
Location: Cook/Douglass Lecture Hall, Room 209 (3 College Farm Rd, New Brunswick )

“Immigration and Diversity in Higher Education: Students’ Journeys and Successes”
Peter Guarnaccia, Ph.D., Professor
Human Ecology Department
Time: 12:30:00 PM TO 2:00:00 PM
Location: Blake Hall, Room 131, Cook Campus

“Ocean Animals on the Move: Consequences for Ecological and Human Communities”
Malin L. Pinsky, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Natural Resources
Sponsored by Human Ecology
Time: 12:30:00 PM TO 2:00:00 PM
Location: Blake Hall, Room 131, Cook Campus

“WEBINAR: Parameters of public acceptance of nanotechnology”
Dr. William Hallman and Dr. Mary Nucci
Institute of Food Safety and Nutrition (IFSN) Seminar Series
Time: 3:00:00 PM TO 4:00:00 PM
Location: Waterfront Centre Building, Room 2311, Washington, District of Columbia, United States

“Alternative Careers for Science Majors”
Roundtable interactions with professionals
Sponsored by Office of the Campus Dean & Department of Human Ecology
Time: 6:00:00 PM TO 9:00:00 PM
Location: Institute for Food, Nutrition and Health, Room 205, Cook Campus

“Settler Colonialism Through Reclamation: A Historical Geography of the Inland Columbia Basin”
Carrie Mott, Ph.D., Instructor, Department of Geography, Rutgers University
Sponsored by Human Ecology
Time: 12:30:00 PM TO 2:00:00 PM
Location: Cook Campus Center, George H. Cook Room, Cook Campus

“U.S. Public Opinion on Climate Change: Can It Mobilize a Policy Response?”
Patrick J. Egan, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Politics, NYU
Co-sponsored by Human Ecology and Rutgers Climate Institute
Time: 12:30:00 PM TO 2:00:00 PM
Location: Blake Hall, Room 131, Cook Campus

“Assessing the Coupled Human-Environmental Impacts of Global Change on Smallholder Coffee Farmers in Jamaica ”
Kevon Rhiney, Ph.D.
Department of Geography, Rutgers University
Time: 12:30:00 PM TO 2:00:00 PM
Location: Blake Hall, Room 131, Cook Campus

“Author-Meets-Reader Panel and Reception for Pam McElwee's Forests are Gold: Trees, People and Environmental Rule in Vietnam ”
Pam McElwee, Associate Professor, Department of Human Ecology
Co-sponsored with the Department of Geography
Time: 3:30:00 PM TO 6:00:00 PM
Location: Institute for Food, Nutrition and Health, Room 101

“Developing A Green Infrastructure Equity Index to Promote Equity Planning”
Christina Rosan, MCP, Ph.D., Associate Professor
Geography and Urban Studies Department, Temple University
Time: 12:30:00 PM TO 2:00:00 PM
Location: Blake Hall, Room 131, Cook Campus